The mini-track was co-chaired by Prof. Weizi Li (University of Reading, UK), Prof. Kendall Ho (The University of British Columbia Columbia, Canada), Dr. Hector Zenil (Oxford Immune Algorithmics, UK), and Dr. Dionne Tannetta (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, UK)
Dr. Tannetta’s talk showed how the Virtual Ward initiative in the UK is taking off and how it came about from the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic where 131 patients remained at home closely monitored remotely under a very successful triaging clinical pathway. On the other hand, Prof. Li explained how an early-stage project to incorporate Generative AI in an arthritis triaging pathway, has led to an increase of accurate referral from primary to secondary care. Both projects show the promise and the future of AI and remote digital care in healthcare and medicine.
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At the Future Blood Testing Network Plus, we are aiming to build a multi-disciplinary community to develop digital health technologies for remote, rapid, affordable and inclusive monitoring and personalised analytics. This two day workshop will feature speakers to discuss the future of healthcare, remote blood testing, monitoring and artificial intelligence (AI).
This event will take place at Leonardo Hotel Southampton (Formerly Jurys Inn). Both days will include lunch and coffee breaks, with day 1 also including a drinks reception with dinner.
NB: Due to venue policies on final numbers we cannot guarantee that we can cater to all dietary requirements after the 12th October.
Event Costs
£30 – Physical Day Attendance (Includes lunch on both days, and dinner and drinks on day 1)
£50 – Accommodation (per night – Bed and Breakfast available on the 6th and 7th November)
Draft Agenda
Day 1 – 7th November
10:00-10:30: Coffee & Registration
10:30-12:00: Session 1: Landscape of Future Blood Testing – Session Chair: Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza (University of Southampton)
10:30-11:00: Future Blood Testing Network+ Overview and Recap – Professor Weizi (Vicky) Li (University of Reading)
11:00-11:30: Remote Testing & AI – What’s Coming Next – Mr Frank Khan Sullivan (Enhanced Fertility)
11:30-12:00: Landscape of Future blood testing in healthcare practice – Professor Dimitris Grammatopoulos (University of Warwick)
12:00-13:00: Lunch & Photo session
13:00-15:00: Session 2: Network Funded Projects– Session Chair: Prof Weizi (Vicky) Li (University of Reading)
13:00-13:30: Multi-modal deep learning approaches for identification of prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers – Dr Heba Sailem (Kings College London)
13:30-14:00: FERRIQ: AI-Driven mapping of disease trajectories of patients with genetic iron overload to inform development of clinical decision support systems – Dr Fayyaz Minhas & Professor Dimitris Grammatopoulos (University of Warwick)
14:00-14:15: Development of an implantable device for continuous monitoring of blood biomarkers – Dr Chenyang He (University of Nottingham)
14:15-14:30: Blood microfluidics for point of care diagnostics – Professor Stavroula Balabani (UCL)
14:30-14:45: Raman spectroscopy for remote blood testing – Dr Donna Arnold (University of Kent)
14:45-15:00: Wearable Otological Measurement of Blood Analytes (WOMBA) – Dr Peter J. Christopher (University of Nottingham)
15:00-15:15: Coffee Break
15:15-17:15: Session 3: Adoption & Design for the Future of Digital Healthcare & Diagnostics: Design, data, NHS adoption and commercialisation
15:15-15:30: Information Design in medical testing – Professor Sue Walker (University of Reading)
15:30-17:15: Round Table (facilitated by Al, Sue, Mamta, Age)
Design:Professor Sue Walker (University of Reading)
Data:Professor Age Chapman (University of Southampton)
NHS adoption:Dr Mamta Bajre (Oxford Academic Health Science Network)
Commercialisation:AssociateProfessor Alexander Edwards (University of Southampton)
17:10-17:30: Wrap Up
17:30-19:00: Drinks Reception & Networking
19:00: Conference Dinner
Day 2 – 8th November
09:30-09:55: Coffee
09:55-10:00: Welcome Back – Professor Weizi (Vicky) Li (University of Reading)
10:00-12:30: Session 4: Future Blood Testing Research – Chair: Dr Mark Elliott (University of Warwick)
10:00-10:30: Translating blood tests from the Academic Lab into the Clinical Setting – a Case Study – Dr Martin Peacock (Zimmer and Peacock Ltd)
10:30-11:00: An immune score based on longitudinal blood testing – Dr Hector Zenil (Oxford Immune Algorithmics)
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-12:00: Detection of drugs and biomarkers in healthcare using optical fibre sensors – Professor Serhiy Korposh (University of Nottingham)
12:00-12:30: Squishing Biology to Advance Healthcare: A Journey from Saliva to Blood
– Dr Robert Barker (University of Kent)
Description: At the Future Blood Testing Network Plus, we are aiming to build a multi-disciplinary community to develop digital health technologies for remote, rapid, affordable and inclusive monitoring and personalised analytics. This two day workshop will feature speakers to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with this. We will also be launching our second funding call for both our technical landscape report, and for our pilot projects. This event will run as a hybrid event, the physical event will take place at the University of Reading in the Park House Building. Both days will include lunch and coffee breaks, with Day 1 also including a drinks reception with canapés, and dinner. Virtual attendees will be able to join us via Zoom.
NB: Due to venue policies on final numbers we cannot guarantee that we can cater to all dietary requirements after the 30th August.
Posters & Pitches: There will be an opportunity to submit a short pitch to present at this 2 day event. Please fill in our Pitch Form to submit a poster or pitch presentation.
Pitches will be one minute long with 1-2 slides. Delegates will introduce their expertise and collaborations they are looking for to develop a collaborative innovation project
NB: Pitch Presentations can take place virtually or physically. If you are planning on attending physically to give a pitch, you MUST have registered via our Eventbrite. You need to be registered in order to have your submission accepted.
The deadline for submissions via this form is the 13th September (however we will email you as soon as we get your submission to tell you if you have been accepted or not).
Electronic copies of pitches should be sent to Dr Samantha Kanza s.kanza@reading.ac.uk by the 13th September.
Agenda:
Day 1 – 13th September – Park House Building. The main workshop, refreshments, and the conference dinner will take place in the Meadow Suite, and the Drinks Reception will take place in Blandfords.
Time
Session/Talk
09:30-10:00
Coffee & Registration
10:00-10:15
Future Blood Testing Network+ Overview Prof Weizi (Vicky) Li (University of Reading)
Transforming the UK’s diagnostics agenda after COVID-19 and grand challenges – Future Blood Testing Landscape report Prof Dimitris Grammatopoulos (University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire, University of Warwick)
11:00-11:45
Measuring platelet function: new strategies for precision medicine to prevent thrombosis Prof Jon Gibbins (University of Reading)
11:45-12:15
Coffee Break, Networking – There will also be a Group Photo
12:15-13:00
Lab services for a Web 3.0 world: how the next transformation will enable the democratisation of blood testing to have access and control of our own health Dr Hector Zenil (University of Oxford & Oxford Immune Algorithmics)
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Session 2: Chaired by Prof Jeremy Frey (University of Southampton)
14:00-14:30
Remote blood monitoring for cancer patients- a preliminary landscape analysis Beth Harvey (University of Reading)
14:30-15:00
Improving triaging from primary care into secondary care using heterogeneous data-driven hybrid machine learning: A real-world case study of decision support system using blood test & GP referral letters Bing Wang and Prof Weizi (Vicky) Li (University of Reading)
One-minute pitch Delegates introduce their expertise and collaborations they are looking for to develop a collaborative innovation project. Groups developed from the event present their concept and proposal outline
We invite you to submit papers to our minitrack, the deadline is 15th June. Submission details and author instructions can be found here: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/
Description: This is the virtual launch event for the Future Blood Testing Network! The Future Blood Testing Network+ is a new Network funded by EPSRC. We are aiming to build a multi-disciplinary community to develop digital health technologies for remote, rapid, affordable and inclusive monitoring and personalised analytics.
Our first funding call will be to fund three projects to produce content for our landscape report that will provide the roadmap of developing new digital health systems to support real-time blood monitoring, self management and timely intervention in community health and care. Each report will include a systematic review of the key literature and involve interviewing key stakeholders to establish the current picture and identify the gaps.
The report will have three main streams:
Future blood testing in healthcare practice: For example but not limited to: clinical needs, early adopters, challenges and opportunities, regulations, buy-in, user acceptance, existing and potential use cases for healthcare professionals and hospitals, patients, laboratories etc
Remote blood processing and monitoring: For example but not limited to: sensing, imaging, point of care blood testing, portable and affordable , non-invasive, and other promising technologies for detecting blood biomarkers outside clinical settings
ICT, Data, Analytics and AI: For example but not limited to: challenges and opportunities in entire data lifecycle from point of testing/monitoring, to linking in with NHS Systems and other healthcare Systems including aspects of ICT infrastructure, data security, trust, ethics, data quality, provenance etc, and the AI technologies and analytics methods required to create the personalised analytics in patient pathways
On the 23rd November 2021 we launched our Network with an online event hosted via Zoom. The session was kicked off by our Principal Investigator Dr Weizi (Vicky) Li, and the University of Reading Team: Prof Adrian Bell, Prof Adrian Williams, and Prof Keiichi Nakata. This was followed by talks from Vicky to introduce the network, and each of the Co-Investigators on the different themes of the Network. The second part of the session comprised of different healthcare themes, and further details about the Network from the Coordinator Dr Samantha Kanza. The session ended with a panel discussion with all of the speakers, chaired by Prof Adrian Bell. The full programme with speaker details can be found here.
New Technologies and therapies in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus management – Dr Theingi Aung (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust) (Video Coming Soon)
Remote management of acute illness – bringing the safety of the hospital to the comfort of the patient’s home – Dr Joseph Nunan & Dr Dionne Tannetta (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust) (Video Coming Soon)
Our first funding call will be to fund three projects to produce content for our landscape report that will provide the roadmap of developing new digital health systems to support real-time blood monitoring, self management and timely intervention in community health and care. Each report will include a systematic review of the key literature and involve interviewing key stakeholders to establish the current picture and identify the gaps.
The report will have three main streams, and you can apply for a full stream or part of a stream.
Future blood testing in healthcare practice: For example but not limited to: clinical needs, early adopters, challenges and opportunities, regulations, buy-in, user acceptance, existing and potential use cases for healthcare professionals and hospitals, clinical researchers, patients, laboratories etc
Remote blood processing and monitoring: For example but not limited to: sensing, imaging, point of care blood testing, portable and affordable , non-invasive, and other promising technologies for detecting blood biomarkers outside clinical settings
ICT, Data, Analytics and AI: For example but not limited to: challenges and opportunities in entire data lifecycle from point of testing/monitoring, to linking in with NHS Systems and other healthcare Systems including aspects of ICT infrastructure, data security, trust, ethics, data quality, provenance etc, and the AI technologies and analytics methods required to create the personalised analytics in patient pathways
The key dates are as follows:
3rd February 2022 – Call formally announced
10th March 2022 – Deadline for applications (to be emailed to s.kanza@reading.ac.uk)
7th April 2022 – Successful projects announced
Please read the Guidance Document carefully before filling in the Application Form (both files can be downloaded by following these links, or from the Documents Page). The Terms and Conditions can be found in our FBTN Single Letter Agreement (Coming soon).
Please note, individual projects can request up to £20,000 funding (total spend up to £25,000 as per fEC 80%). Applicants will be awarded 80% of the full cost and the institution receiving the award is responsible for the remaining 20%. If you have any questions please contact our Network+ Coordinator Dr Samantha Kanza on s.kanza@reading.ac.uk.
Here are some key points about the application requirements:
Projects are expected to have a maximum duration of 18 months. There is no minimum length for the projects, but applicants must be available to work within our timelines and attend the review meetings for the different iterations of the report. Applications should demonstrate how these timelines can be met via the inclusion of a Gantt Chart. NB: We expect applicants to be available to attend our review workshops and speak at them about their work. Receiving the funding is conditional on meeting these milestones.
May 2022: All projects MUST start by 1st May 2022
Nov 2022: 1st iteration of landscape report due
Mar 2023: 2nd iteration of landscape report due
Nov 2023: Final version of landscape report due
Applications should demonstrate how the overall team has the required skills to produce both the systematic review in their area of chosen expertise, but also to conduct the interviews and analyse them.
Making sure your finance team understand what you are applying for is vital. This is an EPSRC funded Network so everything must fit within their rules. Understanding the fEC 80/20 rule can often be an issue if not made clear right at the start. This is why we ask for finance costing and sign off with every application.
Applications should detail who the applicants are planning to interview if they are funded. The interviews are really important. We don’t just want the work to be born out of the literature, we encourage you to think about who you are going to engage with and who the key stakeholders in the area that you are going to work on. An in depth view of the field is very important for the landscape report as we want to guide not only the academic research but also the industry practice as well. We strongly encourage including interview letters or emails of intent to demonstrate who would be willing to be interviewed by them. (NB: These can be attached to the submission or emailed to s.kanza@reading.ac.uk).
Obtaining ethics approval to conduct the interviews is a condition of receiving this funding. Applications should demonstrate how they are planning to do this. NB: Members of the Future Blood Testing Network Team will be available to provide advice on this.
Make sure you follow the rules. PhD Students are a key area where this can be misunderstood. You cannot hire a PhD student to work for you FULL TIME unless they are seconded, and it is not work that counts towards a continuation of their PhD. However PhD students can work a certain number of hours a week (visa dependant) again as long as this does not fall into the remit of work that counts towards their PhD.
Applications must be made on the Future Blood Testing Network Application Form, and must not exceed 7 pages, using 11pt Arial Font, with no adjustments to margins. They must be accompanied by a 1 page Gantt chart style project plan.
We will acknowledge everyone who takes part in this project irrespective of their role, so the Final Report will acknowledge not just the authors but also the advisors, interviewees, reviewers etc.
Description: This is the virtual launch event for the Future Blood Testing Network! The Future Blood Testing Network+ is a new Network funded by EPSRC. We are aiming to build a multi-disciplinary community to develop digital health technologies for remote, rapid, affordable and inclusive monitoring and personalised analytics. Sign up to our launch event to meet the Network Team, and find out more about our Network! There will be presentations on our different Network themes given by the Network Management Team, in addition to presentations given by healthcare professionals and medical reseachers. There will also be a Q+A Panel with the Network Management Team to enable you to find out more about our research and planned activities! This event will be run on zoom and the talks from the different Network Managers will be recorded and made available on our YouTube Channel.
