Blogs

Qwikify announces the launch of their complete digital care planning solution as part of their time-saving document automation platform.

Justyna Strzeszynska, founder and CEO of menstrual health brand Joii, shares how her experience living with menstrual health issues inspired her to launch the Joii App, a new period and symptom tracker designed to support those living with endometriosis.

Dr Sarah Blake, a cardiology registrar at Guys’ and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and one of the first cohort of Clinical Artificial Intelligence fellows, tells of the benefits that can be gained from using AI tools in the NHS.

Dr Aakash Rai, Founder and CEO of Launchpad company MediTask, discusses the challenges that medical students face in gaining clinical skills and how MediTask has been launched to help solve this problem while also supporting NHS doctors.

Dr. Juhi Tandon, GP and Medical Director at Cognitant, shares how the company is on a mission to empower people to self-manage their care and how the DigitalHealth.London Evidence Generation Bootcamp helped them understand how to evaluate their product.

ZiO Health is a VC-backed medical technology and digital health company that has developed proprietary pocket-sized technology, which brings lab testing to the point of use, helping improve patient drug treatment outcomes. CEO and Co-founder, Dr. Neel Patel reflects on their time on the DigitalHealth.London Evidence Generation Bootcamp.

Vaish Sundaresan, Communications Officer at DigitalHealth.London, provides an overview of what Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are and current digital health developments that could contribute to the World Health Organisations’s target of eliminating 90% of NTDs by 2030.

Laurence Girard, CEO and Founder of Fruit Street, shares the story of the company’s diabetes prevention programme and how their experience on the DigitalHealth.London Evidence Generation Bootcamp programme provided them with the tools they need to move into the UK market.

Psyrin is an early-stage start-up aiming to transform psychosis care pathways by leveraging speech-based machine learning technology for triage and assessment. Here, co-founder Edwin Wong pens some reflections on their experiences, following completion of the DigitalHealth.London Evidence Generation Bootcamp programme.

Recent years have drastically changed the landscape of our working routines and the environment in which they are formed. In this blog, Tasha Wait, Community and Marketing Lead at the Health Foundry, reflects on the growth of co-working spaces and the benefits it can bring to digital health companies.

Hayley Fay, Specialist occupational therapist in Hand Therapy at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust shares how she observed patients struggling to retain and perform exercises correctly, and subsequently identified the need to explore how to deliver patient information and exercises in a way that ensured success.

Teresa Kua is a Urology Clinical Nurse Specialist (Urology Cancer) at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and a Horizon Fellow. In this blog, she shares her mission to find a digital solution to facilitate the open access pathway for prostate cancer patients.

Stephen Hughes is an Antimicrobial Consultant Pharmacist and Trust lead for the antimicrobial stewardship service at the Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust. In this blog, Stephen shares how his interests in improving prescribing in the face of antimicrobial resistance and digital transformation combine, and how we must balance pragmatism with our ambitious ideas when implementing new technological solutions in the NHS.

Bianca Parau, Paediatric Dietitian at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, shares her experiences and insights of managing childhood obesity, and provides an overview of her Horizon Fellowship project – a multidisciplinary behavioural change digital curriculum to empower children and their families.

Karen West, Head of Transformation for Mental Health at DigitalHealth.London Accelerator alumni company Oxehealth, reflects on how technology could help tackle the current NHS workforce crisis.

Sara Nelson, newly appointed Programme Director for DigitalHealth.London, reflects on her journey in the NHS and the digital health sector, and shares her vision for the future.

Horizon Fellow Kimberley Forbes is Consultant Sexual Health/HIV at John Hunter Clinic and Kobler Clinic and Service Lead for Contraception at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. In this blog she shares how she has adopted a solutions-based approach to her work in healthcare and some of the models and ideas she’s used to bring her closer to her goals.

Jessica Chiu, NHS Navigator at DigitalHealth.London, shares insights into the importance of inclusive design and her top tips on how to achieve this in digital health.

Jonathan Knight, Co-Founder of Compassly, provides an overview of the challenges of clinical competencies, and how Compassly’s comprehensive app aims to help healthcare professionals seamlessly work across multiple organisations, and healthcare providers to develop and retain their staff.

James Cleland, Superintendent of Nuclear Medicine at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, dives into what Nuclear Medicine is and the idea behind his Horizon Fellowship project.

Christina Sothinathan, NHS Navigator at DigitalHealth.London discusses how Artificial Intelligence could be used to support NHS staff and patients. Drawing on her own experiences as a Clinician, she reflects on how Limbic, a company on the Accelerator programme, are specifically tackling this issue across mental health pathways.

Nick Bennett, Founder of Fika, discusses how the NHS workforce crisis could be tackled through providing staff with access to appropriate training and development opportunities and how their mental fitness platform, Fika, could help resolve this issue.

Chris Evans, CEO and co-founder of Little Journey, explains why Little Journey was set up, how it works, and what’s coming next for the company.

Antoine Lever, Co-founder and Commercial Director of babblevoice, charts the company’s journey from two guys in a garage, to a cutting-edge telephony provider for hundreds of surgeries up and down the country, serving thousands of patients.