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Coplug is leading a consortium to develop its unique data analytics platform for healthcare planning, SidM Health. Supported by the 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise Global Innovation team, this partnership includes:

• City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
• NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit (HUDU)聽
• Discovery East London Programme

To enable this partnership, the Global Innovation team helped Coplug secure a 拢500,000 project award. It was聽co-funded by the Innovate UK Digital Health Technology Catalyst Grant.

Developing a unique service聽

Coplug鈥檚 core offering is its Service and Infrastructure Demand Management digital platform (SidM Systems庐). Using machine learning techniques, it helps governments and service providers plan for future healthcare, education, leisure, utilities and housing needs.

Their initial focus, and where need is most acute, is healthcare. So the company has been expanding its commercial SidM Health cloud-based solution together with its NHS partners.

鈥淲e provide governments with a timely, accurate and targeted evidence base,鈥� said Darshana Gothi Chauhan, Coplug鈥檚 CEO and founder.聽

鈥淔or healthcare, the evidence we produce is related to the problems and exact questions NHS providers ask. They can use the evidence directly to support business cases for healthcare infrastructure planning and population health management.鈥澛�

NHS North East London Commissioning Alliance covers seven CCGs. It's聽agreed to collaboratively develop SidM Health to support the management of healthcare estates and population health for 1.1 million people living in the area.

Coplug is also supporting city planning in Nigeria, as part of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) supported Future Cities Prosperity Fund programme.聽

A background in urban design and planning

Darshana is a smart city expert, architect and urban designer with 12 years鈥� experience of city planning in local and central government as well as industry.聽

鈥淚n government, there鈥檚 a huge amount of data which could better drive decision making,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 saw a real gap in the market to join public sector domain knowledge with tech to bring forward innovation from within the public sector.鈥�

Darshana undertook a postgraduate certificate in Smart Cities and Urban Analytics at The Bartlett, 果冻影院, to help her bridge the worlds of data and government. She went on to found Coplug in 2017, now located at 果冻影院鈥檚 entrepreneurship hub, BaseKX.

Coplug鈥檚 Head of Research and Innovation, Paul Mullins, has over 15 years'聽experience in the industry. He's聽also pursuing a PhD at the The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at 果冻影院.

Entrepreneurial journey

Coplug has previously taken part in the extracurricular entrepreneurship programmes at 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise. They鈥檝e received business advice, dedicated office space and mentoring from the Entrepreneurship team. Coplug has also recently worked with the Global Innovation team, through their Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) activities.聽

鈥淕ovTech is a tough market to break into but with the support of dedicated business advisors at 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise, our company has been able to flourish even in difficult times,鈥� Darshana said. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e provided invaluable advice which is reflected in Coplug being awarded two Innovate UK grants. This has provided us a robust foundation for the growth of our company鈥�. 聽 聽

Kemil Thomas, Senior Partnerships Manager (High Growth SMEs) at 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise, said: 鈥淭he whole area of GovTech is seeing rapid growth and development at the moment. That鈥檚 likely to accelerate in the current pandemic. Coplug has a genuinely innovative solution that is having a real impact in resource-limited settings. They鈥檙e a highly collaborative startup, which closely matches 果冻影院鈥檚 ethos and is something we actively support at 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise.鈥澛�

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Find out more about:

• support available to SMEs from the Global Innovation team
• entrepreneurship support for 果冻影院 students and recent graduates

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