Huma (company)
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | healthcare, big data, mobile |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Dr Rich Khatib and Dan Vàhdat |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
| Website | www |
Medopad is a healthcare technology company headquartered in London, UK, with international offices in Salt Lake City, USA, Munich, Germany, and Dubai, UAE. It offers a suite of CE certified iPad applications that integrate health data from existing hospital databases and securely sends it to healthcare professionals' mobile devices. [1]
Adoption
BMI Healthcare, the largest private hospital group in the UK with 66 private hospitals [2], has been the first to work with the company [3][4], and Medopad is an National Health Service supplier [5]
Technology and Products
Healthcare professionals can securely access lab results, images, clinical notes, and primary care data via iPads and other mobile devices. [6] In November 2013, Medopad was the first approved mobile health solution and received CE approval from the UK Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. [7]
Medopad launched the first two enterprise integrated Google Glass apps in 2013[8] and announced them to the world at CeBIT 2014 in Germany.[1][9][10] Medopad Google Glass Integration allows doctors to communicate and collaborate, take and share pictures or record video, and view patient records.[1] Medopad Google Glass Alert allows a doctor to identify items they would like to be alerted about and receive the information immediately as it becomes available. [10]
Involved Parties
Medopad strategic partners include Vodafone [9], Intel [11], and IBM[12].
Among the institutional investors are Sandbox Industries (Healthbox) [13][14][15] [10], Bupa, and Bayer. [12]
Among the angel investors are Tony Brown, Non-Executive Director of the NHS, [4] and Stefan Gries of BlackRock. [16]
The supervisory board includes, among others, John Tate [17], BBC’s Director of Policy and Strategy [18], and Paul Richardson, NHS executive. [19][16]
Medopad is one of the founding members of the Manchester mHealth Ecosystem. [20]
References
- ^ a b c New Scientist, Retrieved 16 June 2014 Cite error: The named reference "New Scientist" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ BMI Healthcare, Retrieved 16 June 2014
- ^ "BMI pilots 'Medopad' across hospital group". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- ^ a b Health Investor Power 50 2013 "Health Investor Power 50 2013". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
{{cite web}}: Check|URL=value (help) Cite error: The named reference "NHS Board of Directors" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - ^ "NHS Moves Slowly Toward Mobile Health IT". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "University of Oxford's Tata Idea Idol Competition". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ "Mobile health provider becomes first to receive CE approval". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ "Medopad Media". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Vodafone - How Medopad's Enterprise Mobile Health Operating System is Revolutionising Healthcare". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ a b c Hub Westminster "Google Glass & Medopad: Rich and Dan Tell Their Story". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
{{cite web}}: Check|URL=value (help) - ^ "Intel Partners". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ a b "Company Overview". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- ^ "HealthBox". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "'Dragons' Den' event promotes innovation in healthcare". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "Sandbox Portfolio". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Medopad Ltd". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- ^ "John Tate on LinkedIn". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "John Tate on BBC website". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "Medopad Team". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ NHS Board of Directors "The Manchester mHealth Ecosystem". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
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