Category Archives: Healthcare

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 →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Global Health, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Global Health, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Global Health, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

HT&Y The Challenge Award Shortlist: Affinity

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Julia Manning

Affinity by Entia is a handheld device that empowers people with cancer to monitor their response to chemotherapy from home. With a simple finger prick test Affinity measures white blood cell platelet red blood cell counts and temperature; a selection … Continue reading →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Global Health, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

HT&Y The Challenge Award Shortlist: Harm Calm

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Julia Manning

Calm Harm is an app designed to help young people manage the urge to self-harm. The clinician-developed app provides tasks that help resist or manage urges to self-harm and uses ideas from an evidence-based theory called DBT. The app gets … Continue reading →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Healthcare, Public Health, Technology, Uncategorized, Wellbeing | Leave a comment

HT&Y The Challenge Award Shortlist: Mevia

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Julia Manning

Mevia helps patients take the right medication dose at the right time. Through our innovative solution of printed traces electronics and IT system that can be adapted to any primary pharmaceutical packaging we can detect when a pill or dose … Continue reading →

Posted in Emerging technologies, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Technology, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Baby Boomer women and tech – new report

Posted on May 26, 2016 by 2020healthGuest

Guest blog by Kathy Mason Associate, 2020health Elder care with technology appeals most to Baby Boomer women Two thirds of 55-75 year olds would be interested in using technology to help their parents as they get older. Help with medication, memory, … Continue reading →

Posted in Elderly, Emerging technologies, Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare, Innovation, Preventative healthcare, Self-care, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment