Rebecca Todd from E-Health Insider attended my lecture at Primary Health Informatics 2012 conference, and she kindly wrote a story about our upcoming US trial. Everyone benefits when patients are in control of their medical records. Most people think this is just a feel-good statement – and it is true, it does feel good for [...]
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My article came out in the Guardian healthcarenetwork today. Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli explains how medical practitioners can make the most out of online patient-to-patient networks Clinicians must try not to brush away a patient’s own research. Photograph: Marc Romanelli/Getty Images There is a quiet revolution happening in the way patients and medical professionals communicate, interact [...]
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I spent a very cool morning at Sky News. Not only did they pick me up in taxi with built-in Wi-Fi, but the studio’s circular layout was space age. I noticed that the weather lady was not waving in front of a blue background, it was actually an enormous screen. I really want that screen [...]
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BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health episode today covered Patients Know Best. It was great to meet Dr Mark Porter, the presenter, along with the rest of his team. They came to interview doctors and patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital about their use of the software. PKB’s slot starts at 16 minutes into the audio, [...]
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Hospital IT Europe is first to cover our smartphone API. This means any developer of smartphone apps can integrate their software with Patients Know Best. Already, we have four different apps built by outside companies, even though we only created the API over Christmas, and we only told a few of our customers about it. [...]
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E-Health Insider has an article about our new partnership with howRU. howRU was founded a couple of years by pioneers in health care informatics, including Tim Benson. The aim was to collect information about patient outcomes but in a way that was easy for patients to fill out, and scientifically useful for those trying to [...]
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My article on social enterprises appeared in the Guardian today and it covers how we use our social enterprise status in our marketing. The short answer is that we do not – we focus on the benefits that we deliver to patients and to customers. But one big benefit we get is in recruitment. People want to [...]
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The Guardian has an article today about Patients Know Best as one of the 25 winners of the Big Venture Challenge. It was a real honour to be included in this list, plus it meant a £25,000 prize and benefiting from the mentoring and network of Unltd and the Lottery Fund. Over the next couple [...]
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The Guardian has written about the first transfer of medical records between two hospitals using Patients Know Best. A young lady, coming up to her 18th birthday, was able to do the transfer by granting her new specialist team access to her old pediatric medical records. The two hospitals – Great Ormond Street Hospital and [...]
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E-Health Insider is covering our clinical trial with our newest customer, Novartis. This should be the first of many clinical trials that PKB makes possible. In this case, the aim of the study is to better understand what life is like for a patient with COPD, a long-term lung condition. There are two advantages to [...]
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Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Dr Richard Smith
Olivia Ralston