A Holistic Treatment Approach
By Lucy Collins - Assesspatients One of the challenges in healthcare is providing effective treatment for people in the community. Healthcare practitioners, family and patients themselves know that...
View ArticleIntegrated Care is evolving
With our focus on providing a secure web platform that older people and their different care professionals could useto work together on assessing, planning and tracking care needs, we have taken a...
View ArticleSuccessful joint funding submission to Medical Research Council for Care...
Assesspatients are delighted to work with the University of Manchester's School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work to produce a specification and prototype for an interactive, user-friendly care...
View ArticleTechnology plays a big role in the quality of life of people living with...
On 9th December last, a technology charter for people living with dementia in Scotland was launched at the Digital Health & Care conference in Glasgow. Funded by the Scottish Technology...
View ArticleUsing Technology to improve Patient Discharge Efficiency
In daily life, delays in patient discharge from hospitals are a grueling inconvenience; to people, families and staff. Yet closer review and analysis of statistics of the domino effects of delayed...
View ArticleMoving Towards Team-Based Healthcare: How Technology Will Enable This Move
Team-Based Health Care [Source: http://synetichealthcare.com/] Think about this: It’s 9:00am and the hospital waiting area is filled with some twenty-something patients. Each one with a medical ailment...
View ArticleHealth & Social Care Integration: Pitching our secure integrated care pathway...
Pitching and getting good feedback!Last week, AssessPatients had the opportunity to pitch at the Digital Health & Care Institute (DHI)’s Innovation Engine Room session as part of the DHI's focus on...
View ArticleDeveloping a Care Planning Solution for Mental Health Care with University of...
In a previous blog post we announced our partnership with the EQUIP Research Centre of the University of Manchester's School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work in order to develop and...
View ArticleCommissioning Health Care Technology to Support Carers
Carers Trust says its imperative to Invest in Carers “Carers need support and failure to adequately recognise support and involve carers can be catastrophic for the wellbeing of the carer and the...
View ArticleEmpowering People Improves Care Planning
Photo Retrieved from JustCallHarry.com In our partnership with the EQUIP Research Centre in the area of involving people and carers more in their mental health care planning with professionals,...
View ArticleBetter Support Needed for People when being Discharged from Hospital
A recent report by BBC News Online Health Editor Michelle Roberts provides several heart wrenching stories of older persons being sent home from the hospital afraid and with little support....
View ArticleIntegrating Physical Health Care in Care Planning for Individuals living...
Photo Credit: http://www.worth-itprojects.co.uk/ An April 2016 report from Rodgers et al, highlights the fact that individuals who live with mental health conditions have a lower life expectancy and...
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