Mrs Janette Hughes
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
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
- ENVISION: The Digital Blueprint for a Smart Home of the Future Executive Summary : Executive Summary
- Whoriskey Margaret, Hughes Janette
- (2026)
- H@Home - Interreg : Lessons learned from a EU H@H project for Heart Failure
- Hughes Janette
- Hospital at Home Conference (2026)
- Transforming Diabetes Care through Innovation : Leveraging Scotland's Collaborative Ecosystem - Thought Leadership Event Summary Report
- Brogan Michelle, Hughes Janette
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00095063
- 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
Professional Activities
- Foreign office Event for World Class research
- Recipient
- 3/12/2026
- HETT conference
- Participant
- 7/10/2026
- UK authority of Smart Places webinar
- Speaker
- 24/6/2026
- Rural Centre of Excellence Innovation Showcase
- Participant
- 10/6/2026
- Webinar for NHS England
- Speaker
- 8/6/2026
- SEISMIC conference launch - Panel participant
- Participant
- 5/6/2026
Projects
- NHS Inform Redesign
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator) Crooks, George (Co-investigator) MacKenzie, Moira (Co-investigator) Malarkey, Christopher (Co-investigator)
- 31-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- NHS 24 Inform road mapping project
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator)
- DHI supported co-design workshops and prototype development to deliver a future roadmap for an outline business case for Scottish Government
- 01-Jan-2025 - 25-Jan-2026
- HF-TIC
- Hughes, Janette (Principal Investigator) Crooks, George (Co-investigator) MacKenzie, Moira (Co-investigator) Malarkey, Christopher (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2029
- Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (Phase 3)
- MacKenzie, Moira (Principal Investigator) Chute, Chaloner (Co-investigator) Crooks, George (Co-investigator) Hughes, Janette (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- 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
Contact
Mrs
Janette
Hughes
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (D.H.I.)
Email: janette.hughes@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7060