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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 Ltd is a British 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] Primary clients are large hospital groups, and since 2012, Medopad was a supplier to the National Health Service.
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] Medopad was named one of the top 35 European startups to watch by tech.eu in June 2014. [6] BMI Healthcare Medical Director Mark Ferreira said that Medopad is "intuitive, and it kind of works the way doctors think." [1]
Technology and Products
Healthcare professionals can securely access lab results, images, clinical notes, and primary care data via iPads and other mobile devices. [7] In November 2013, Medopad was the first approved mobile health solution and received CE approval from the UK Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. [8]
Some of the clinical applications that Medopad includes are Patient Clinical Notes by voice recognition or typing, Scheduling, Lab Results, Image Viewer to view X-rays to CT scans, Support Documents to digitalise all paper documents or to take photos, Video Conferencing, Primary Records, Realtime Vitals, Demographics and Contact Information, Apple HealthKit integration, Realtime Data Stream, Traffic Light to sort and prioritise patients, Admission, and access to more third party applications integrated into Medopad through the Clinical App Store. [1] [9]
Medopad launched the first two enterprise integrated Google Glass apps in 2013[10] and announced them to the world at CeBIT 2014 in Germany.[1][11][12] 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. [12]
Involved Parties
Medopad strategic partners include Vodafone [11], Intel [13], IBM[14], InterSystems, and Healthcare Gateway. [15][14]
Among the institutional investors are Healthbox[16][17], Sandbox Industries [18] [12], Bupa, and Bayer. [14]
Among the angel investors are Tony Brown, Non-Executive Director of the NHS, [19] and Stefan Gries of BlackRock. [20]
The supervisory board includes, among others, John Tate [21], BBC’s Director of Policy and Strategy [22], and Paul Richardson, NHS executive. [23][20]
Medopad is one of the founding members of the Manchester mHealth Ecosystem [24] which consists of six NHS trusts.
References
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ Health Investor Power 50 2013 "Health Investor Power 50 2013". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
{{cite web}}: Check|URL=value (help) - ^ "NHS Moves Slowly Toward Mobile Health IT". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "Health 2.0 in Europe – Here's 35 startups to watch". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Empowering Mobile Health". Retrieved 19 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 c "Company Overview". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
- ^ "Medopad Website". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "HealthBox". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "'Dragons' Den' event promotes innovation in healthcare". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ "Sandbox Portfolio". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ "NHS Board of Directors" (PDF). Retrieved 17 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.
- ^ "The Manchester mHealth Ecosystem" (PDF). Retrieved 17 June 2014.