Based at Newcastle University in the North-East of England, the NIHR Innovation Observatory is the home of health innovation futures scanning. We are an active research centre with a focus on the provision of early awareness signals and timely intelligence to support national decision making around health care innovation.
ScanMedicine is a novel search platform dedicated to providing health care professionals, patients, carers, the public, policy-makers, and researchers with open access to the development pipeline underpinning health technology innovations. ScanMedicine comprises clinical trial records presenting standardised data from multiple national and international clinical trials registries, along with medical device approval data from the FDA. It offers users a convenient and effective single search interface with interactive visualisation features that can provide an overview of the health technology innovation landscape.