Category Archives: Emerging technologies

HT&Y The WOW! Award Shortlist: Mable Care

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Julia Manning

MABLE is a personalised Care Management System for older adults and their family to improve their Quality of Life: monitoring loneliness depression anxiety and safety. MABLE offers communication technology understanding the language used to build positive relationships. Ideal in extending … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The WOW! Award Shortlist: Inspair

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Julia Manning

Inspair a compact add-on turning traditional inhalers into smart medical devices. People living with respiratory disease have been using inhalers for decades. Unfortunately inhalers misuse is far too common (86%). As a result asthma control was suboptimal in 56.5 % … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The WOW! Award Shortlist: HealthUnlocked

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Julia Manning

HealthUnlocked is a social network with over 500 health and wellbeing online communities/forums on different conditions. Millions of people come to it each month to compare experiences and get support from other people who have the same health condition as … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The Professional’s Choice Award Shortlist: TickerFit

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Julia Manning

TickerFit was founded by chartered physiotherapist Avril Copeland. Avril founded the company after becoming frustrated seeing the same patients readmitted to hospital due to a lack of follow on support. TickerFit enables healthcare providers to deliver primary and secondary prevention … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The Professional’s Choice Award Shortlist: Cellnovo

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Julia Manning

The Cellnovo vision is that those who rely on medical devices should benefit from the same advances in technology to improve the care they receive and to make their lives easier. The life today of a typical Type 1 diabetes … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The Professional’s Choice Award Shortlist: uMotif

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Julia Manning

uMotif is the leading next-generation digital platform to capture patient-generated health data for health services and clinical research. The clinically-proven platform has been deployed in 16 conditions globally capturing millions of data points to impact care. uMotif unrivalled design quality … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The Health Tech and Age Award Shortlist: MonitorMe

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Julia Manning

MonitorMe is a not-for-profit networked system centred around an intelligent landline telephone that captures clinically validated vital signs in accordance with the Royal College of Physicians NEWS score. It makes earlier hospital discharge possible and introduces a new way to … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The Health Tech and Age Award Shortlist: MIRA Rehab

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Julia Manning

The MIRA platform is an innovative software platform containing clinically based video games designed to assist the rehabilitation and physical therapy treatment by providing a fun and engaging tool. To address the problem of ageing population and falls among older … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The Health Tech and Age Award Shortlist: Memrica Prompt

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Julia Manning

Prompt tackles the anxiety about forgetting that hits the confidence of active people with a memory problem, often leading to withdrawal, isolation, depression, reduced independence and stress for families. The Prompt app compiles shared histories of each user’s favourite people … Continue reading →

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HT&Y The Future Award Shortlist: Portable Allergen Tester

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Julia Manning

In the UK over 20000 patients are admitted to hospital each year with allergic reactions (HSCIC 2014) this is costing the NHS over 68 million a year. Half of all deaths from food-induced anaphylaxis happen in restaurants. The Portable Allergen … Continue reading →

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