Civic HealthTech Innovation Zone (CHI-Zone)

Liverpool City Region Life Sciences Investment Zone Project

Led by the University of Liverpool’s Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL), the CHI-Zone will spearhead the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-driven technologies to transform health and social care – raising international visibility and driving exports from the Liverpool City Region (LCR).

It will support academics, clinicians, entrepreneurs and established businesses to develop data-driven and tech-enabled solutions to tackle global challenges and upskill health and care professionals to ensure LCR makes the most of ground-breaking science and technological advancements in the service of its communities.

It will build on regional strengths to support innovations in:

Child and Maternal Health: Using AIs to build smart, child-friendly cities that help families to maximise their child’s future health.
Infection Resilience: Developing AIs to ready society for future pandemics and tackle the global threat from antibiotic resistant bugs.
Mental Health: Supporting the development of XR applications to support mental wellbeing - delivering digital therapies and better integrating mental and physical healthcare to meet rising demand.
Bio-data Banking and Health Avatar: Empowering residents to combine health records with biological sample-derived data to fuel discoveries, improve therapies, and personalise care.
Pressure-resistant Health and Social Care: Shaping technologies that support vulnerable people at home, preventing hospital admissions and improving the quality of care provided and experienced by people who deliver or access social care services.
Conversational Data Analytics: Enabling conversations with AIs that help people generate insights from big data without needing specialist programming skills.

Contact: chizone@liverpool.ac.uk

_{Image: Professor Lucy Chappell, Mayor Steve Rotheram, and senior representatives at the launch of the Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL).}