The Institute of Clinical Science and Technology

Patients who are healthy, confident and empowered through agency drive high value in healthcare and reduce the need for intervention. Similarly, clinicians who are empowered, informed and equipped with high-value, powerful tools achieve high-impact health improvement outcomes. Digital health support for patients and clinicians is becoming utilised more frequently in healthcare but often lacks infrastructure behind them to reach their full potential and drive significant improvement of outcomes. In contrast to typical providers, we offer a comprehensive joined-up infrastructure for implementation on a population-wide scale. This adoption at scale, brings the benefit of standardisation, reducing variation and inequality through a sustainable digital behaviour change system, with reported successful outcomes. “This is the most helpful development in healthcare that I can remember in 35 years as a GP.” Encouraging large-scale populations to adopt simple yet effective health-improving behaviours gives immense value. Nonetheless, motivating such a large and diverse population to embrace this poses significant challenges and often results in variation, especially when many variables are unknown. Only one percent of pilot studies eventually achieve scale outside of the initial controlled environment. The ICST Virtual Health System functions as a comprehensive, wraparound solution that spans from policy to patient, enabling transformative population-level changes. ICST uses implementation science methodologies supported by specialist implementation software to successfully deploy the toolkit on a comprehensive scale, revolutionising the way it is implemented across an entire population. The framework makes Implementation Science simple and accessible to everyone. Supported by an expert implementation team at ICST who help achieve nationwide adoption.