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James Gervais Barlow (born 12 January 1957) is a British academic. He has held a Chair in Technology and Innovation Management at Imperial College Business School since 2003. James has been Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), a leading research centre on innovation in healthcare technology and infrastructure, since its inception in 2006. He is also a member of the executive for the NIHR Northwest London CLAHRC and the Department of Health Policy Innovation Research Unit. He holds a PhD and BA from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previous appointments include the University of Sussex (Science & Technology Policy - SPRU) and Policy Studies Institute, London.

James’ research focuses on the adoption, implementation and sustainability of innovation in healthcare systems. This has included extensive work on the development and introduction of ‘remote care’ – telehealth, telemedicine, telecare. He has worked with companies and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) on research projects on remote care and with government at a strategic policy level. He is part of the UK Department of Health’s team evaluating the Whole System Demonstrators remote care programme, the largest trial of these technologies ever undertaken. Other current work focuses on the use of public-private partnerships (PPP) in healthcare, and their impact on innovation. He is leading a project on new European models of PPP, with case studies in Spain, Finland, Germany and Portugal. In the 1980s he largely worked on European housing policy issues, especially on the efficiencies of different housing systems – their ability to control costs and prices – and the impact on national housebuilding industries such as its processes, how profits are made and how innovative it is. This included early research on ‘smart homes’ for elderly and disabled people, from which his interest in remote care developed.

James has been a member of many expert panels on healthcare innovation, including for the Department of Trade & Industry, Department of Health, OFCOM, Welsh Assembly Government, Policy Exchange, King’s Fund, Royal Society and the European Commission, and has gave evidence to the UK's Treasury Select Committee and other Parliamentary Committees.

He has worked extensively with companies involved in healthcare technologies, including Orange, BT Health, Philips and Tunstall. He chaired the healthcare advisory board for Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd and now sits on the healthcare advisory board for MITIE Group plc. James is also an advisory board member of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Charity Strategy Committee, supporting significant investment in local healthcare innovation projects.

He has published widely, including numerous journal articles and four books.

For further information visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.barlow http://www.james-barlow.com/