Congratulations to the Foundation for Genomics and Population Health (@PHGFoundation) for winning the NHS Partnership Award of the ERBI’s 2009 Bench2Boardroom conference. PKB and PHG were both finalists for the award and as you can read from the article below their work is important and interesting. In at least 20% of families affected by the [...]
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My father in law sent me this video recording of the wonderful BBC television show, Jimmy’s Food Factory. See if you can figure out why.
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One of the many perks of winning Seedcamp is the free consulting we get from its partners. The first such partner to help us out is ThoughtWorks who gave us a usability session with Marc McNeil. ThoughtWorks’ clients include thetrainline.com and their Chief Scientific Officer is Martin Fowler, one of the authors of the Agile [...]
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It is my great pleasure to announce that the Journal of Participatory Medicine has launched. I am on the editorial board and the inaugural issue includes a paper by our chairman, Dr Richard Smith. Participatory medicine is about a new approach to patient care: where patients are part of the team, and everyone in the [...]
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My paper was published today in inaugural issue of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, whose editorial board includes our CEO, Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli. Abstract Summary: After 30 years of practicing peer review and 15 years of studying it experimentally, I’m unconvinced of its value. Its downside is much more obvious to me than its upside, [...]
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At PKB we are working with the Association of Clinical Biochemistry to provide test results directly to patients with long-term illnesses. This is important for patients to manage their health care, and useful to clinicians who need patients to understand their own health. Back in 2008 the NHS formally recognized the importance of such access [...]
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I wrote a blog some six months ago about how a talk by Harold Shipman’s successor had convinced me that I should get access. I do most of my work online, complete my tax return online, make all my travel arrangements online, bank online, and buy books and CDs online, so surely I should be [...]
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Craig Agranoff wrote a lovely article about PKB at the Social Commerce Blog. Craig is the editor of sCommerce and he really understood how we hope to help patients to work with clinicians to manage their help. He even read our Personal Health Records encyclopedia, which we love to write in.
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It is an honour to announce that we are one of the five finalists for The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Innovation Awards. There were 400 entries in total this year and we are finalists for the start-ups award. This is a great endorsement for the security of our software, its integration into the NHS, [...]
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Today I was a member of a London Business School panel on careers in healthcare. My co-panelists were highly successful professionals from highly successful large companies: AstraZeneca, Bupa and Lilly. I hope we can join their ranks one day. And in the meantime, you can join us at Patients Know Best. We are already have [...]
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Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Dr Richard Smith