The AHSN Network has supported many innovators to help advance our health and care system. Find out more about successful innovations supported by the NHS.
As part of a commissioned programme of work through the London Digital First Programme, an evaluation of the London regional scale of remote monitoring in care homes will be delivered by the Health Innovation Network.
Social Rx is an end-to-end social prescribing solution. This means that GPs can make easy referrals into social prescribing, and these referrals can be managed by link workers. Patients can then be referred into practical, local services to help improve their wellbeing. Our dashboards and reports provide useful insights into patient wellbeing, service booking activity and referral sources, amongst other things.
The Healthy Ageing Team conducted a study to ensure the appropriate diagnosis of Dementia in residential and nursing homes across south London.
Vitacam is a CE marked, software-based medical device that uses webcams and smartphone cameras to measure a patient's pulse and respiratory rate from video. By tracking chest movements and minute colour changes in the face caused by pulsatile blood flow, the system provides a contactless method of gathering observations. It’s especially useful to detect early signs of deterioration in elderly care settings. Respiratory rate in is often unmeasured due to a lack of time, training or resources.The roadmap includes more vital parameters to get a more complete set of observations.
Syrona is a digital health platform providing support to women through our app SORA for employee benefits supporting women through various health transitions during their careers such as Endometriosis, PCOS and menopause.http://syronahealth.com
The Health Innovation Network (HIN) are working with partners across south London to support care homes to increase the use of deterioration management tools to improve the identification, management, and escalation of physical deterioration.
DOC@HOME is an accredited and regulatory compliant health platform which enable healthcare professionals to improve quality, efficiency and productivity.Docobo has been working closely with health and social care services for 20 years, enhancing and improving knowledge and product development to ensure we continue to deliver real and reliable solutions and optimise our clients’ adoption of ‘digital’ in a coherent interoperable system. Adoption is most successful when it is an evolutionary process, which assures effective change, with confidence and momentum.
Dermicus is an NHSX DTAC approved specialist teledermatology platform for the remote diagnosis and management of skin cancer, general skin lesions and wounds. Dermicus is securely integrated into electronic patient records systems in primary and secondary care using the NHS IM1 pairing, FHIR and other integration standards. All patient data and information security meet the highest standards required by the NHS, validated by an ISO 27001 accreditation.
We are a small team united by a common cause – a deep commitment to supporting sustainable healthcare and transforming the delivery of care to patients living with multimorbidity through use of technology and new ways of working. We combine a wealth of knowledge to bring a variety of perspectives and complementary skills to the challenges of the evolving face of NHS Primary Care and work in harmony with forward thinking GP practices and clinicians who share our passion for such innovation.
There is limited information on digital maturity in care homes within London. Building on the EoLC Care Home data packs created in 2018 and 2019, our Healthy Ageing and Informatics Teams were commissioned to create a user friendly and useful digital maturity dashboard for care homes across London. This project was led by the Health Innovation Network and funded by the Digital First London region team.
Marian House Nursing Home (located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham) successfully implemented a quality improvement project to improve the safety of medicines rounds for residents in their care.
REST EASY Training offer a simple, affordable, effective wellbeing methodology for schools, staff & families. The method forms part of a whole school approach & intervention strategy that teaches children, parents & staff how to recognise & manage emotions using our simple REST EASY acronym. We are evaluated against the NICE guidelines for social, emotional & mental wellbeing needs in schools & meet all DfE pinciples & SEL requirements.
