In this episode, Joseph Firth discusses the Remote Exercise and Lifestyle (REAL) Intervention for people with psychosis. Featured in numerous journals and science articles, the web library provides free access to a large library of pre-recorded workout videos available to do anywhere.

Firth is currently leading the multi-million pound UKRI-funded project, which aims to implement a digital lifestyle intervention into youth mental healthcare.

Joseph Firth is a Professor of Mental Health Informatics in the Division of Psychology & Mental Health at the University of Manchester. His current research leverages digital technologies and lifestyle medicine to improve outcomes for people with mental illness.

What do implementing remote patient monitoring into the NHS and the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge have in common?

In this episode, Professor of Health Informatics Sabine van der Veer takes us on a deep dive into REMORA, or, the Remote Monitoring of Rheumatoid Arthritis (REMORA) programme.

The £2.1m research study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) aims to improve outpatient consultations by enabling people with rheumatoid arthritis to collect and share daily symptom reports with health care staff to give them more detailed information on how patients have felt in the weeks and months between appointments.

Sabine Van der Veer is Professor of Health Informatics in the Division of Informatics, Imaging, and Data Sciences at the University of Manchester.

Rob Foster is one of the founders of Caremixer, a Salford-based health tech start up. Previously a GP, Rob left the NHS in 2024, setting up Carebell with two clinicians.

Carebell is a real-time digital communication platform providing universal accessibility that connects professionals, teams and patients across the health and care network to reduce the impact of fragmented care. At the time of this podcast seminar, the platform is still being developed, and Rob discusses the need for targeted research in its development.

Rob's 20 year career has covered data, opps, commissioning and primary care, and transforming change in the community.

Dr Mahima Kalla is a Digital Health Research Fellow at the Digital Health Validitron at the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health the University of Melbourne.

Kalla's work explores embedding equity considerations across the entire digital health innovation pipeline, from problem identification to implementation into routine clinical practice. In this seminar, Kalla discusses 'the Gold standard' of co-design and how to counter poor applications.

Mahima Kalla is also the Melbourne Lead for the Digital Health Equity Hub of the International Collaborative for Translational Digital Health (MMT Alliance).

Lovisa Hellsten and Kyriaki Kosidou share their fascinating work on digital sexual and reproductive healthcare use among Swedish youth, which looks at patterns and predictors based on register-based data.

Their talk offers rich insights into how young people in Stockholm engage with digital SRH services, what shapes access and equity, and how digital visits are being integrated within youth clinic systems.

Pritesh Mistry spoke to Marta Chmielowska about digital exclusion in health and social care.

Pritesh is part of the The King's Fund's policy team. His work focuses on how digital tools and technologies can improve health and care across the system he is particularly passionate about using evidence-based digital technology as an enabler to improve quality, inequalities and outcomes.

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After both of Louise Thompson's parents became ill with dementia, her journey led to the creation of MyFolks — an app designed to help families support their elderly loved ones with ease and dignity.

In this episode, Louise talks to Marta Chmielowska about her inspiring app, which bridges the gap between health and social care and acts as a support system that aims to combat social isolation by using technology to provide help at the press of a button.

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In this week's seminar, Dr Linda Mizun presents her transformative Disease-Reversing Neighbourhood Model, powered by the Hero of Health App.

The goal: to build 10,000 Healing Neighbourhoods to tackle loneliness, chronic diseases, and health inequality, making them accessible to all.

Simple. Scalable. Life-changing.

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