The Department of Health issued updated guidance on patient access to health records today. My thanks to Mark Duman, of the Patient Information Forum, for bringing my attention to this. Full details are on our personal health records wiki, but the main are take-homes are clear: the patient is entitled to a copy of their [...]
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We are getting some nice coverage about the Stelios Award. First to cover is the The Deaf Blog, a blog about the achievements of people with hearing difficulties.
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Demos is one of my favorite think tanks, a left-of-center research institution responsible for many of Tony Blair and New Labour’s policies. Peter Bradwell and his colleagues are running an interesting research project through a series of focus groups with citizens in different parts of the UK. One of the topics is how personal medical [...]
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“I would like to congratulate Mohammad for reaching the shortlist of this year’s award, it is not an easy task to be nominated because there was stiff competition. I have been impressed by Mohammad and all short listed entrepreneurs and will look forward to awarding the prize to the winner and seeing how they use [...]
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I attended the launch event for the NESTA report by Laura Bunt and Michael Harris, The Human Factor: how transforming healthcare to involve the public can save money and save lives. The three speakers were Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Tim Kelsey, Chairman of Dr Foster Intelligence, and Jonathan Kestenbaum is Chief [...]
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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 sudden [...]
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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 team [...]
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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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Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Dr Richard Smith