It is my pleasure to announce that Channel 4’s investment arm, 4iP, has invested in Patients Know Best. Dan Heaf blogs beautifully, and the full post is worth reading: To my mind Cambridge based Patients Know Best is a game-changing, noise making and innovative web start-up that sets out to fix a vital yet broken [...]
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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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“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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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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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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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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I am delighted to announce that Dawson King, our Chief Technology Officer, has been elected to the committee that sets the next version of the data standard that Google, Microsoft, CVS and others use to share patient data. The Continuity of Care Record (CCR) is an elegant but sophisticated data standard that allows sharing of [...]
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We are delighted to have received investment from 12 of Europe’s most prestigious venture capitalists as they chose us as one of Europe’s top six start-ups. This is all thanks to Seedcamp, an organization that picks out and trains Europe’s next generation of entrepreneurs. Earlier in September they chose Patients Know Best as one of [...]
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We had a great time presenting at the 10th Cambridge Enterprise Conference and Silicon.com interviewed Dawson King for a 7-part series: The hottest tech out of UK’s Silicon Valley. The other six companies higlighted were: Cronto: produced software for mobile phones that will check whether a banking transaction is genuine Emotion AI: develop technologies to [...]
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