Use of Digital Health

This is for operators who have best incorporated any aspect of digital health into the delivery of powerful new treatment and care programmes. Typically the users of the IT will be doctors, nurses or carers rather than patients (see our other award for patient platforms). This could include any sort of software from enterprise products downward!

 

FREE BLOG Integrated care won’t work without data

Integrating care to better meet patient needs should lead to huge improvements in outcomes. Individual patients can be targeted for prevention and their needs predicted. But this approach, which could also be labelled population health management, calls for sophisticated data sets.  The English NHS is trying to implement based on spreadsheets compiled by family doctors. It should learn from Finland and the USA. Internationally, there is a massive skills vacuum that no one is filling.
June 27, 2019

How far can telehealth deliver primary care?

Today, telehealth delivers up to 7% of all primary care in Europe. What of tomorrow? Major providers say they want to provide up to 80%, but is that realistic? HBI examines the evidence and speaks to a telehealth startup making impressive inroads.
March 20, 2019

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2017: Supporting mental health with online supplementary digital care

Karify acts as a cloud-based platform, that supports mental health therapy sessions with online supplementary digital care. It is active in the field of mental health and provide tailored unique programs in depression, anxiety, ADHD, mindfulness, chronic pain, meditation and substance disorder programs. The platform claims to cut readmission rates by between 11-40%.
July 6, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2017: Improving diabetes identification and treatment

A new data warehouse solution enabled Terveystalo to identify individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes, identify people who had the condition and to transparently demonstrate value. Applied across the whole of Finland, the new system would annually save 31 ,000 years of labour and 2 billion euros according to independent academics.
July 6, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Urine tests at home using smartphones

Healthy.io takes smartphone cameras into clinical quality medical scanners, using colour recognition and AI data sets to create a product for existing healthcare systems. Its first test kit is Dip.io, which digitizes urinalysis, the second most common diagnostic test, particularly useful in prenatal health and chronic kidney disease. The solution increases access to testing and, by eliminating the need to travel to a lab, can be used in any setting at a low cost. Images are sent directly to the doctor, reducing wait time. The judges gave the award to healthy.io on the potential for this single test which is being rolled out in the NHS in England and elsewhere.
June 25, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: Measuring fat and muscle more accurately with MRI scans

The medical community relies on the notoriously inaccurate Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement when it comes to measuring body fat. AMRA has developed a way of producing 3D-volumetric fat and muscle measurements using a single six-minute MRI scan which is far more accurate. This will enable doctors to better identify at risk patients such as those with high fat levels in the abdomen – visceral fat. Elderly patients with muscle loss and increased fat, a debilitating condition known as sarcopenia, can also be identified. AMRA has introduced a new paradigm where rapid, 6-minute whole body MRI scans are analysed to produce precise, three – dimensional volumetric fat and muscle measurements. This standardized, automated method eliminates reader variability and reduces processing costs. AMRA also researches the relationships between fat, muscle and the development of disease, with the aim to become the new global standard in body composition. AMRA’s aim is also to support the precise tracking of treatment effects, the identification of who should participate in clinical trials, and the understanding of those who are at risk of developing disease.
June 25, 2018

FREE BLOG HBI Awards 2018: A low-band width teleradiology platform

Teleradiology Solutions, an Indian company which reads images remotely, has produced a platform that works on low-speed bandwidth, making it accessible in areas with poor digital infrastructure, particularly in rural areas of Africa and India. This works on a pay-per-click model making it more affordable and suited to small institutions as well as larger providers. It claims a 99% accuracy rate, 2% higher than the American College of Radiology standard of 97%. With coverage 365 days of the year, 24 hours per day, it is able to turn around emergency image reads in 15 minutes. It currently works in over 20 countries including the United States, Singapore, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Maldives and India.
June 25, 2018

HBI 2018 Awards: Doubling the number of patients a primary care doctor can see in a day

Patients are first asked to fill in an online decision tree of questions about their condition and then offered asynchronous chat with a doctor. These interactions are carefully crafted as conversations. Some 80pc of all patients who opt for the digital route do not need to go on and have a face-to face meeting with a doctor and the questionnaire also speeds up consultations. Doctrin's system is being rolled out across the primary care network owned by hospital group Capio which has some 750,000 patients in Sweden. Doctrin says that it ups the number of patients a doctor can see from 25 to 50.
June 25, 2018
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