Mrs Janette Hughes
Head Of Planning And Performance
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (D.H.I.)
Personal statement
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Janette is Director of planning and performance at the Digital Health and Care innovation centre (DHI) and has over 20 years' experience in Design, Innovation, Economic Development and Programme Management, with the last ten years focussed specifically on the Digital Health and Wellness sector.
Leading various high profile innovation projects in Scotland, including the Wellness and Health Innovation Project and over the last 5 years involved with two major Innovate UK backed programmes; Future city demonstrator (Glasgow) where she assisted in the development of a City Observatory that harnessed the power of data for City challenges (some of which related to Health and Wellbeing) and the Scottish DALLAS programme which pioneered a Digital wellness platform and applications in Scotland. In addition Janette has undertaken many international keynote presentations for this subject and has led numerous trade missions to Middle East, Japan, USA, India and throughout Europe.
Janette has a thorough understanding of this sector and how service, technical and business innovation and readiness levels need to merge and connect, with a research interest in evidence for scaling innovation.
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Publications
- Annual Report - Year 1 Infrastructure Investment : August 2024 to July 2025
- Hughes Janette
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00094508
- Readiness and digital maturity : promoting innovation, integration, and scale in Scotland
- Hughes Janette, Brogan Michelle, Wales Ann
- Digital Maturity in Hospitals Strategies, Frameworks, and Global Case Studies to Shape Future Healthcare (2025) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80704-6_15
- Effective integration of health and social care data for improved decision-making
- Kang Kean Lee, Hastings Adam, Hughes Alex Danielle, Greer Margaret, Preston Janice, McIntyre Don, Hughes Janette, Mackenzie Kara, Bown James, Falconer Ruth
- International Journal of Integrated Care Vol 25 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC24070
- Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre Phase 2 - Year 5 Annual Report (August 2023 to July 2024)
- Hughes Janette
- (2024)
- DHI 10 Year Strategy 2024 – 2033 : Transforming great ideas into real solutions
- MacKenzie Moira, Hughes Janette
- (2024)
- Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre Phase 2 – Year 4 Annual Report (Aug 2022 to July 2023)
- , Hughes Janette
- (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00086786
Professional Activities
- UK Gov ministerial visit to DHI RCE - MP Kirsty McNeil
- Speaker
- 28/8/2025
- Glasgow Innovation - Art of the possible
- Chair
- 27/6/2025
- NHS Grampian innovation conference
- Speaker
- 24/6/2025
- Smart housing Living Lab supplier day
- Organiser
- 23/6/2025
- International Federation of Diabetes workshop - meeting Scotland's innovation and academic ecosystem
- Organiser
- 5/6/2025
- Living Labs for Co-creating Socially Inclusive Health & Care Tech Solutions
- Organiser
- 28/5/2025
Projects
- SCOTCAP Extension 2
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator) MacKenzie, Moira (Co-investigator)
- 26-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
- Valmed: Real World Evidence, Clinical Decision Support and Evaluation of Medicines for Prostate Cancer
- Maguire, Roma (Principal Investigator) Bennie, Marion (Academic) McCann, Lisa (Academic) Hughes, Janette (Co-investigator) Dunlop, Emma (Researcher) Connaghan, John (Researcher) Kernaghan, David (Post Grad Student)
- The aim of this project is to define the current state (As Is) and propose the future options (To Be) by which medicines for prostate cancer can be assessed and evaluated using digital solutions.
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
- Development of a Network of DHI DSE in the Commonwealth Region
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
- Mental Health Innovation Stage 2
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
- SAC Vascular Surgery
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2019
- NHS NSS SCOTCAP Evaluation Extension (DHI/CIS)
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
Contact
Mrs
Janette
Hughes
Head Of Planning And Performance
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (D.H.I.)
Email: janette.hughes@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7060