Digital Healthcare Can Create Economic Opportunities - HIE

Organised by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), the P4 Digital Healthcare Convention is focusing on the innovative use of modern technology to promote health and prevent illness.

Organised by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), the P4 Digital Healthcare Convention is focusing on the innovative use of modern technology to promote health and prevent illness. Life sciences research and commercialisation will play an important role in growing the economy of the Highlands and Islands, according to the man in charge of the region’s enterprise agency.

Alex Paterson, Chief Executive of HIE, said the agency had already invested significant amounts to help develop a regional life sciences sector and was committed to helping it grow and diversify, both for economic and social benefit. “As a largely mountainous region with a widely-scattered mainland population and almost 100 inhabited islands, the Highlands and Islands is a location which stands to benefit from healthcare innovation,” said Mr Paterson. "The increasing limitations on healthcare budgets make innovation in efficiencies of delivering healthcare necessary. At the s