IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology
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IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a global professional society for engineering and technology. With over 155,000 members in 148 countries, we provide independent and impartial engineering and technology expertise to help solve some of society's most significant challenges. As a registered charity, we are committed to inspiring, informing, and influencing the global engineering community to engineer a better world.
Our strength lies in our collaborative approach, working with governments, industries, and academia to engineer solutions for global challenges. Our professional guidance is critical to good policy making, especially in highly technological areas. We are a diverse home for engineering and technology professionals, ranging from those developing new engineering capabilities to those perfecting established skills. Our goal is to lead the engineering and technology profession to make better sense of the world and solve the challenges that matter.
One of our many initiatives is the IET Healthcare group, which is dedicated to promoting innovation and creativity among future leaders in healthcare, social care, and wellbeing. By bringing together stakeholders from different disciplines, including engineers, policy makers, clinicians, patients, technologists, and entrepreneurs, we aim to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration. The group focuses on promoting the application of engineering and technology in healthcare, particularly in areas such as digital health, medical devices and equipment, healthcare infrastructure, and data analytics. We also address challenges related to healthcare delivery and access in low-resource settings and promote ethical considerations in technology use in healthcare.
Join us in promoting progress and innovation in engineering and technology. Visit our resources to learn more about our initiatives and how you can get involved in making a positive impact on society.
- Making your idea a reality: resources for growth - Evidencing long-term value to funders as well as patients and clinicians.
- Making your idea a reality: funding new innovation. - Convincing investors to put their money where their health is.
- Healthcare innovations: making technology attractive. - Understanding the importance of intuitive design for effective solutions.
- Healthcare innovations: letting users guide design. - Exploring the value of user-led co-design for engineers and technologists.
- Clinical trials: the role of technology in engaging participants and delivering results. - How technical innovations can address the challenges in participant recruitment and retention for clinical trials during COVID-19 and beyond.
- Clinical trials: when and how to demonstrate the performance of technology on patients. - Examining the role of clinical trials in building confidence in new devices, diagnostics and drugs.
- Healthcare regulation: keeping up with new technologies. - The second part of our two-part podcast – driving forward the standard of care using cutting-edge technology while maintaining safety and performance standards.
- Healthcare regulation: mandatory or optional? - Looking at the role of regulation in the development of innovation in healthcare and differentiating between mandatory rules and optional practical guidance.
- Ensuring clinical safety: safety by design. - The second part of our two-part podcast - design safety in healthcare technologies, mitigating design challenges and the potential harm in digital health interventions.
- Ensuring clinical safety: driving compliance in the industry. - The importance of clinical safety and how manufacturers can ensure that it is present when their devices or new treatments are in use.
- Artificial intelligence: hype or hope? - Carrying out a clinical trial of artificial intelligence, the use of design to eliminate bias and health data inequalities.
- Putting the patient in the middle - part 1 - How patients can be involved in the development of medical innovations and how technologies can be designed for the intended users.
- Putting the patient in the middle - part 2 - The impacts of COVID-19 on the ability of engineers to collaborate with patients and how the culture of engaging with patients in design has changed.
- Artificial intelligence and ageing – Machine learning for human and longevity
- Artificial intelligence and engineering for healthcare crises – Improving our health emergency planning to create the resilient system we need
- Artificial intelligence for drug discovery – Leveraging machine learning to accelerate development of new medicines for healthcare crises
- This AI Life – Can artificial intelligence give the kiss of life to the UK’s National Health Service?
- The digital advantage – Realising the benefits of interoperability for health and social care in England
- The promise of immersive healthcare – How the UK can reap the benefits of the latest healthcare innovations that use immersive technology
- Blockchain in Healthcare – How distributed ledger technology could help mitigate some of the sectors biggest challenges
- Design and evidence – Does involving users slow down or speed up innovation
- Healthcare Commissioning – How borrowing ideas from the commercial world could help address the NHS deficit and nurture innovation
- Skills for a digital future survey - The Institution of Engineering and Technology commissioned YouGov to undertake a survey assessing the UK’s digital skills gap, its impact on employers, and potential solutions to the challenge.
- Designing AI-Powered Elder Care Products: Best Practices and Considerations
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in adult social care: case studies in the UK
- Addressing the challenges and opportunities of an ageing population with artificial intelligence
- Understanding the concerns of an ageing population to guide artificial intelligence-based solutions
- A framework for digital transition in healthcare
- Case studies highlighting interoperability achievements in healthcare
- Addressing the wider productivity issue in pharma research and development
- When we consider new innovations in personalised healthcare, are you an optimist?
- What are the main barriers to adoption for entrepreneurs trying to sell into the NHS?
- Digital transformation in social care
- The challenges of immersive healthcare: anonymity and consent
- Immersive technologies for recovery
- Do regulators need to change to take advantage of new healthcare opportunities?
- Immersive technologies for mental health
- Is there a need for adopting digital technology in healthcare?
- Can digital technologies play a role in social prescribing models?
- Top tips on overcoming human issues when designing new healthcare technologies
- Overcoming barriers that prevent widespread adoption of healthcare technologies
- Inclusive intelligent homes to support our health and wellbeing
- The next steps to deliver smart home technology that supports our wellbeing
- Steps to building healthier care homes and community care
- Looking at the interplay between our lived environments and our health
- Reducing isolation and improving healthcare with digital technologies
- Webinar recap: the future of intelligent home to support health
- Webinar recap: responding to COVID-19: smart home tech to support people’s needs
- Webinar recap: engineering in Africa – connecting brilliant minds and inspiring the future engineering generations
- Webinar recap: responding to COVID-19: reducing social isolation and loneliness
- Webinar recap: responding to COVID-19: monitoring vulnerable patients and remote diagnostics
- Webinar recap: artificial intelligence and sports
- Webinar recap: responding to COVID-19: care homes and community care
- Webinar recap: artificial intelligence and ageing
- Webinar recap: responding to COVID-19: healthy living and housing
- Webinar recap: AI and engineering for healthcare crises: rapid response strategies for COVID-19