From provocation to action, by way of impact
A multi-year approach
The Health x Digital Transformation report series is a multi-year, practice-driven approach to health innovation, curated by the NIIN Health Alliance. The 2024-25 report presents provocative analysis and highlights urgent “Transformation Dimensions” crucial for health systems, policy-makers, and tech firms. Each dimension details its significance, successful examples, and actionable steps for 2024-25. The report, part of a three-year annual review, aims to build a sustained innovation pipeline, encouraging collaboration and long-term progress in the health sector.
How we did it
The ever-growing expanse of literature on health technology is vast, complex and hard to synthesise in timeframes that can support rapid discernment of opportunities for action or implementation. We have arrived at this view by looking at as much of it as we can. Specifically, we reviewed 9,367 academic articles on the PubMed database between 2020-2024, and then used natural language processing to extract prominent keywords, giving a strong sense of trends across the research.
National Industry Innovation Network (NIIN) Health Alliance
The National Industry Innovation Network (NIIN), led by Cisco Systems, is a dynamic network that brings together industry, university and government partners to drive digital technology advancements in economy and society. The NIIN’s six innovation centres, eight Research Chairs, two health-focused labs, and specialised technology centres serve as a collaborative hub for industry, health agencies, hospital operators, researchers, and students tackling critical healthcare challenges.
In 2023, the NIIN Health Alliance was launched, spearheaded by the Cisco-RMIT Health Transformation Lab and focused on actionable innovation in health technology. With its ready-to-access capability and existing infrastructure, the NIIN Health Alliance provides a low-risk avenue for health agencies and hospital operators to engage in digital transformation prototyping.
Establishment of the NIIN Health Alliance
The importance of scaling healthcare innovation is evident in today’s dynamic and intricate healthcare landscape. To fully leverage the potential of the NIIN healthcare ecosystem, it is essential to establish a network of carefully selected partners with relevant capabilities, projects, contributions, and platforms. The NIIN Health Alliance aims to achieve three major outcomes:
Leverage collective health innovation capacity
Build critical mass activity around health priorities
Create a forum for idea exchange in the health ecosystem
