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Medopad Ltd
Company typePrivate
Industryhealthcare, big data, small data, mobile, internet of things, pharma, wearables
Founded2011
FounderDan Vahdat and Dr Rich Khatib
Headquarters
London, UK
Websitewww.medopad.com

Medopad Ltd is a British healthcare technology company headquartered in London, UK, with international offices in Salt Lake City, USA, 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] The solution is registered with FDA and HIPAA compliant. Primary clients are large hospital groups and large pharmaceutical companies, and since 2012, Medopad has been a supplier to the NHS.

Adoption

BMI Healthcare, the largest private hospital group in the UK with nearly 70 hospitals has been the first to work with the company,[2][3] and Medopad is also an NHS supplier.[4] The company was named one of the top 35 European startups to watch by tech.eu in June 2014.[5] In November 2014, Medopad voted best medical app of the year by MEDICA 2014.[6] BMI Healthcare Medical Director Mark Ferreira said that Medopad is "intuitive, and it kind of works the way doctors think." [7]

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, references Medopad's Apple Watch Chemotherapy app and work with London King’s College Hospital in his quarterly earnings call. Cook explains how remote patient monitoring is helping improve medical care across the world: [8]

Awards and recognition

  • In April 2015, Medopad’s Apple Watch Chemotherapy App for cancer patients launches in hospitals across the world [9]
  • In January 2015, Medopad named most innovative small business in London [10]
  • In December 2014, the company valued around $80m in latest funding deal [11]
  • In November 2014, Medopad voted best medical app of the year by MEDICA 2014[6]
  • In November 2014, Medopad listed among the top 100 global digital health companies [12]

Technology and products

Medopad allows hospitals to pool their patient data into a single platform so it can be served up to doctors on apps and mobile devices in real-time. Healthcare professionals can securely access lab results, images, clinical notes, and primary care data via iPads and other mobile devices.[13] In November 2013, Medopad was the first regulatory approved enterprise mobile health solution and received CE approval from the UK Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.[14]

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.[7][15] The Medopad software platform allows programmers and inventors to build clever apps around hospital big data, wearable devices and sensors that can combine data about physical health, activity and location.

File:Medopad at CeBIT 2014.jpg
Medopad in the Vodafone pavilion at CeBIT 2014

Medopad launched the first two enterprise integrated Google Glass apps in 2013[16] and announced them to the world at CeBIT 2014 in Germany.[7][17][18] 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.[18]

In 24 April 2015, Medopad announced the global rollout of a chemotherapy application for monitoring cancer patients, which has been designed specifically for the Apple Watch.[19] [20] Some of the early adopters of the Medopad Apple Watch cancer app includes: Princess Royal University Hospital and King's College Hospital

Medopad for pharmaceutical companies

Patient monitoring solutions built on the Medopad platform provide pharmaceutical companies with instant and near real-time access to patient data:

1. See how drugs are performing

2. Segment all patient data by demographic features

3. Identify and select applicants for field studies

Involved parties and clients

Medopad strategic partners and clients include Bupa, Bayer, General Healthcare Group, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Princess Royal University Hospital, King's College Hospital, Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, Finchley Memorial Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital, Vodafone,[17]BMI Healthcare, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Kent and Canterbury Hospital (Canterbury), William Harvey Hospital (Ashford), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital (Margate), Buckland Hospital (Dover), Royal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone), Intel,[21] IBM,[22] InterSystems, Open Text Corporation and Healthcare Gateway.[22][23]

Among the institutional investors are Healthbox,[24][25] Sandbox Industries,[18][26] [22]

Among the angel investors are Lord Howard Flight, Tony Brown, Non-Executive Director of the NHS,[27] and Stefan Gries of BlackRock.[28]

The supervisory board includes, among others, John Tate ,[29] BBC’s Director of Policy and Strategy ,[30] and Paul Richardson, NHS executive.[28][31]

Medopad is one of the founding members of the Manchester mHealth Ecosystem [32] which consists of six NHS trusts.

References

  1. ^ a b New Scientist, Retrieved 16 June 2014
  2. ^ "BMI pilots 'Medopad' across hospital group". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  3. ^ Health Investor Power 50 2013 "Health Investor Power 50 2013". Retrieved 17 June 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ^ "NHS Moves Slowly Toward Mobile Health IT". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  5. ^ "Health 2.0 in Europe – Here's 35 startups to watch". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  6. ^ a b http://www.medica-tradefair.com
  7. ^ a b c "Doctors with iPads could transform hospital care". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  8. ^ http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/15piuhasdfvlhbvlhbasvhb07/event/index.html
  9. ^ http://www.thejournalofmhealth.com/#!Medopad%E2%80%99s-Apple-Watch-Chemotherapy-App-for-Cancer-Patients-Launches-in-Hospitals-Across-the-World/cuhk/553a40ac0cf2731334ee5961/
  10. ^ http://www.competition.greatbusiness.gov.uk/
  11. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/technology/11291181/App-for-doctors-Medopad-valued-at-50m-in-latest-funding-deal.html
  12. ^ http://www.thejournalofmhealth.com/#!digital-health-100/c1rdu
  13. ^ "University of Oxford's Tata Idea Idol Competition". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  14. ^ "Mobile health provider becomes first to receive CE approval". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  15. ^ "Empowering Mobile Health". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  16. ^ "Medopad Media". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  17. ^ a b "Vodafone - How Medopad's Enterprise Mobile Health Operating System is Revolutionising Healthcare". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  18. ^ a b c Hub Westminster "Google Glass & Medopad: Rich and Dan Tell Their Story". Retrieved 16 June 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  19. ^ http://www.thejournalofmhealth.com/#!Medopad’s-Apple-Watch-Chemotherapy-App-for-Cancer-Patients-Launches-in-Hospitals-Across-the-World/cuhk/553a40ac0cf2731334ee5961
  20. ^ https://vimeo.com/126517749
  21. ^ "Intel Partners". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  22. ^ a b c "Company Overview". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  23. ^ "Medopad Website". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  24. ^ "HealthBox". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  25. ^ "'Dragons' Den' event promotes innovation in healthcare". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  26. ^ "Sandbox Portfolio". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  27. ^ "NHS Board of Directors" (PDF). Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  28. ^ a b "Medopad Ltd". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  29. ^ "John Tate on LinkedIn". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  30. ^ "John Tate on BBC website". Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  31. ^ "Medopad Team". Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  32. ^ "The Manchester mHealth Ecosystem" (PDF). Retrieved 17 June 2014.

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