We’re excited to announce that Unity Insights has launched a new platform called Unhidden Healthcare, designed to make healthcare innovation easier to discover, understand, compare, and adopt. The platform has been created to address a challenge we encounter time and time again through our work with innovators, NHS organisations and healthcare leaders. This is that many promising healthcare innovations remain difficult to discover, even when they have a strong evidence base or despite being highly relevant to the problems they face, which means that valuable solutions can struggle to reach the people who could benefit from them most. The concept behind Unhidden is simple. If innovations are easier to find, understand and compare, they have a greater opportunity to be considered, adopted and ultimately make a difference to patient care.
What is Unhidden Healthcare?
Unhidden is a searchable healthcare innovation directory that brings together healthcare innovations from across the UK in one place. Rather than relying on fragmented networks, websites and word-of-mouth recommendations, users can explore innovations through a single platform designed to improve visibility and transparency across the healthcare innovation landscape.
The platform has been developed to help bridge the gap between innovators and decision-makers. For innovators, visibility is often one of the biggest barriers to adoption. For healthcare organisations, identifying solutions that are relevant to their challenges can be time-consuming and difficult. Unhidden aims to make those connections easier by creating a trusted place where innovations can be discovered and explored.
Unity Insights’ role
As an independent evaluation and analytics organisation, Unity Insights will play an important role in supporting the platform’s validation process.
Evidence is a critical part of healthcare innovation, but understanding the quality and strength of that evidence is not always straightforward. Our role is to provide independent validation of the evidence claims to help increase transparency and confidence within the platform. By bringing together innovation discovery and evidence validation, Unhidden aims to make it easier for healthcare leaders to understand what evidence exists and how it supports an innovation’s claims.
How you can help shape the future of healthcare innovation
Unhidden Healthcare is currently in its beta phase, and the platform is inviting people from across the health and care sector to explore the platform and share their feedback.
Whether you’re an innovator, NHS professional, researcher, commissioner or simply interested in healthcare innovation, it’s worth a look. Your feedback will help shape the future development of the platform and ensure it provides the best possible experience for the people who use it.