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We will develop and evaluate technologies to ensure health systems globally get the most value from digital innovation.  This will encompass new models of care, including more patient-centered and distributed care pathways harnessing mobile health, wearables, remote approaches to consultation, monitoring and consultation, diagnostics and stratified treatments, all of which shifts more power to health consumers.  

The MS & HERG Group:

The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science’s Cancer Theme:

The IRIHS research group:

  • conducts interdisciplinary research on the socio-technical aspects of digital technologies – that is, the human, organisational and societal influences on whether and how technologies are taken up and used, and what happens as a result. Socio-technical studies draw on many disciplines including sociology, anthropology, organisational studies, science and technology studies (STS) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). The group includes clinicians, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and computer scientists and has an active and diverse group of DPhil students and postdocs.
  • Recent and current studies:
    • DECIDE (Digitally Enabled Care in Diverse Environments), a rapid evaluation programme of remote monitoring technologies in health and social care
    • Remote by Default 2 – the new normal?, an ethnographic study of the wide variety of ways in which UK general practices have introduced, sustained, adapted and withdrawn remote and digital services since 2021
    • ModCons (Mode of Consultation):aims to study in which patients are offered which kind of consultation in general practice (telephone, video, e-consultation) and why
    • TOGETHER2, a mixed-method study of group consultations (both video and hybrid), a new service model in which there is much policy interest
    • SCiP (Supporting Consultations in Remote Physiotherapy), a detailed examination of the talk and body language of patients and practitioners engaged in remote physiotherapy sessions
  • IRIHS runs an MSc and DPhil programme in Translational Health Sciences.  Modules from the MSc, including Technological Innovation and Digital Health, are available to study as freestanding short courses.  
  • Recent publications include:
  • The combined RBD2 and ModCons studies will make an excellent impact case study – detailed ethnographic study of how general practice is adapting to the digital world. Major impacts:
    • Work already cited in major policy documents on patient safety
    • The group's training competencies are influencing national training standards and approaches
    • Various organisational development and staff wellbeing initiatives drawing on our work on techno-stress
    • Linked with NHS England Primary Care Digital Transformation Team

 The Medical Statistics Team: