East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator

MyOpNotes

MyOpNotes is a digital platform allowing surgeons to write high-quality operation notes, enabling hospitals to be better remunerated, and automatically captures data for research and audit. MyOpNotes replaces the existing practice of handwriting or word processed operation notes. It combines peer-reviewed procedure templates with smart technology to improve care, reduce litigation and save the NHS money. If widely adopted, MyOpNotes could revolutionise surgical documentation.

"We are really excited for MyOpNotes to be accepted onto the East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator. We can’t wait to get started on working with them to help bring MyOpNotes to hospitals throughout the region, for the benefit of patients, surgeons and the NHS.” Grant Nolan, MyOpNotes.

Find out more on Linkedin: Company page | Grant Nolan | Dr Rajen Nagar | Kieran Oldham

Tefogo (Compassly) 

Compassly is a simple but powerful app that lets clinical leaders easily assess the skills of their teams live on a smartphone or tablet, to help ensure that healthcare professionals have the right skills to care for their patients. It reduces wasted time and effort on paper assessments and gives complete evidence and assurance to clinical leaders. Supporting a consistently high standard of professional development, it helps with staff motivation and retention. And improves staff clinical competencies reducing unwarranted variation, and it leads to improvements in patient safety and experience. 

“We’re thrilled to be part of the 2023 EMDHA and the opportunity to work alongside the team at the AHSN plus the wider team of peers and mentors. Compassly was first developed working alongside an NHS Trust in the East Midlands, and a key part of its strength is empowering collaboration between local NHS organisations – so we see working alongside EMAHSN as a perfect fit.” Jonathan Knight, Compassly

 Find out more on Twitter and Linkedin

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Atrainability and Download Learning

It is a major challenge to deliver effective training in healthcare. Learners are time poor and under significant stress making it hard for them to find the time to engage with, and concentrate on, training. This is aligned with the fact that current training methods deliver poor knowledge retention, impacts knowledge application, and compromises the upskilling of staff, career progression and patient safety. Partnering with Download Learning Ltd, it applies the neuroscience of memory formation to learning, reducing learning times by between 75-96%. Increasing knowledge acquisition and retention which, in turn, improves knowledge application. The objective is to reduce the training time burden whilst improving learning outcomes and resultant behaviours.

“Atrainability and Download Learning are eagerly anticipating working with an enlightened team seeking to implement innovation, break down barriers and help the NHS move forward with safety management for the benefit of staff and patients alike.”

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iEthico

iEthico is developing an AI powered digital platform to mitigate the increasing problem of global drug shortages to ensure optimal sourcing and distribution of existing supplies in a timely and logistically efficient manner.

The final product will not only ensure medicines supply in times of need but will ultimately address inequality in access to medicines and reduce the carbon footprint of pharmaceutical distribution and waste by improved efficiency.

 “We are excited to be part of the 2022 EMDHA – access to AHSNs knowledge of the NHS, their resources and expertise will help support our ambitious plans and achieve our vision to ensure patients get access to the medication they need, regardless of limitations created by the lack of availability of medicines in their country.” Debra Ainge, iEthico, CEO

 iEthico Twitter / Linkedin

Isla Health Ltd

The Isla Health visual record is a web-based platform that utilises existing device hardware to capture images, videos, voice and text data and submits this to health practitioners.

Data is structured to immediately highlight changes in conditions – enabling wide scale remote management, early escalation and rapid review of health conditions. The platform is designed to be used in a wide range of settings from outside of the hospital such as schools right through to operating theatres. Clinicians, family members, carers and patients themselves can capture high quality photographs and videos using their own devices to highlight symptoms as well as complete monitoring questionnaires to track changes in health conditions. 

“We are delighted to be a part of the 2022 EMDHA and feel privileged to have the opportunity to further deepen our partnerships with the ambitious and enthusiastic teams across the East Midlands community. Some of our major NHS partners are based in the East Midlands and have been development partners since the very beginning of the Isla journey. We look forward to an exciting year.”

Isla Twitter / Linkedin 

Kids Speech Labs

Kids Speech Labs deliver data driven solutions to support providers of speech and language therapy in the NHS. Early identification and intervention is the key to managing any childhood developmental delay and Kids Speech Labs want to ensure that every child gets the help they need when they need it.

In 2022 Kids Speech Labs are expanding reach into schools, meeting the NHS priority to address health inequalities. They are working with schools and clinics to establish new care pathways that ensure all children have equivalent speech and language therapy access and resources.    

“We are excited to be included in the 2022 EMDHA cohort to learn from other teams delivering innovation in healthcare and meet new clinical partners across the East Midlands to grow our user base and our learnings.” Shona DArcy, Kids Speech Labs, CEO

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TCC– CASEMIX

TCC-CASEMIX  brings a stepwise approach to managing theatre capacity. Using unique datasets, acquired real-time in surgery, TCC-CASEMIX  provides a simulation service allowing a speciality, hospital, trust or health systems/ Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) the ability to experiment with the factors that influence theatre productivity. 

These introduce operational improvements which combined with their simulations open up the latent capacity that exists within the system. TCC-CASEMIX gives visibility to this capacity to enable ICSs to make informed decisions as to where to channel demand to those service providers that have the latent capacity to meet demand.   

“We consider ourselves to be very privileged to be part of the East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator and we are looking forwards very much to collaborating with our fellow innovators, and forging new relationships within the East Midlands Academic Health Network.” Matthew Bacon, TCC-CASEMIX, CEO

TCC-CASEMIX Twitter

VOLMO Medical

VOLMO Medical has developed a proprietary medical image processing software ImageSim . This innovative platform is powered by artificial intelligence algorithms, and can automatically perform  image segmentation and diagnostics. Automatic segmentation of 3D medical images quickly allows the user to capture the region of interest and produce a computer model that can be 3D printed.

Currently, ImageSim’s diagnostics features include x-ray and ECG analysis and automatic diagnostics for knee osteoarthritis and cardiac arrhythmia. This year Volmo is aiming to further expand and improve its diagnostic platform and do a pilot study to evaluate ImageSim’s feasibility and performance in the healthcare environment. 

“VOLMO Medical is excited to be part of the 2022 EMDHA because it allows us to work with a highly talented group of people. Working with the EMDHA will allow us to fill in gaps in our competencies those are needed for successful deployment of new technologies within NHS and other healthcare providers in the UK.” Ash Harkara, Volmo, CEO

Case studies capturing the success and highlights from some of our alumni:

• Compassly
• Atrainability / Download
• MyOpNotes
• Memory Lane Games
• Remcare
• Sapien 

Since 2019, the scheme has supported companies providing bespoke support to platform their innovation to the NHS. We will continue to work closely with our alumni members: 

Surgery Hero - Surgery Hero is a remote health coaching solution that helps patients before and after surgery. Currently, patients receive minimal support between hospital appointments, which leads to poor outcomes. Surgery Hero fills these gaps in care by providing expert health coaching before and after surgery.

Remcare – Data collection from patients (for diagnosis and treatment) is a very manual process requiring multiple appointments, taking up clinical time and resources. This creates bottlenecks and delays to treatment. Remcare allows remote collection of clinical data and communication with patients.

Memory Lane Games – Memory Lane Games ORCHA-certified apps enable families to instantly turn their memories into personalised cognitively stimulating activities, which aim to provide mental stimulation and personalised care for dementia patients and carers.

eKare (formerly Woundworks) – eKare’s InSight enables accurate, consistent wound assessments and supports clinical decision making across all wound areas. Users can obtain 2D/3D wound measurements and tissue classification in seconds at the point of care, without touching the wound.

Qardio – Qardio’s QardioArm BP offers in clinic, home blood pressure remote monitoring and 24 hour ambulatory recordings in an easy to use device. The device helps patients monitor their blood pressure easily and links to an app so patients can easily see and interpret their results. When used by or shared with clinicians, the results can help to address misdiagnosed and undiagnosed hypertension.

Spirit Digital – Spirit’s platform CliniTouch Vie provides remote clinical monitoring of medical conditions by healthcare professionals to help people who have had multiple admissions to stay out of hospital. Patients with a long-term condition such as COPD are able to submit answers to condition-specific questions and submit their vital sign readings. Clinicians are notified based on a risk score and by doing this CliniTouch Vie supports healthcare teams to actively monitor a patient’s condition, enabling a prioritised focus on those who need support.

Howz – Howz Home Care Kit works using a series of sensors which feed information through to an app. Howz software learns patterns of behaviour and allows the user and their friends, family, carers (with the right permissions) to monitor health indicators and spots changes, which is often an early indication of health deterioration.

 “The EMAHSN team were there for us every step of the way, and have introduced us to their extensive network of contacts.” - Spirit Digital

"If you want to fully understand the NHS audience to achieve better spread of your product, this is a great opportunity.” - eKare (formerly Woundworks)

“The programme has been extremely useful and allowed us access to contacts and information we would have found more difficult without being members.” - Qardio Europe Ltd