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Innovation 'Elevator Pitch':
Medopad's remote monitoring platform provides clinicians with insight into patient progress in between clinic appointments. This can prevent unncessary outpatient appointments or bring forward appointments for patients who are not progressing well.
Overview of Innovation:
The Medopad app is a health ecosystem with a patient view and a clinician view. It is very intuitive and user-friendly, having been designed with Apple in their Cupertino, California labs.
Patient app
Patients interact with Medopad through a single smartphone app or via connected devices and sensors. Instead of multiple apps for each disease, patients have a single, centralised point of access via the Medopad platform. The Medopad app is composed of different modules and divided into four user-friendly and intuitive sections: patient profile, data collection, patient dashboard, and learning & education. Medopad provides 100+ data collection modules ranging in functionality: medication and symptom trackers, photo and video capture, tele-consultation, and questionnaires. We also provide activity-based modules for specific disease indications including the 6-minute walk test, used by cardiovascular patient cohorts to avoid travel into clinic. We can also integrate devices and sensors, i.e. glucometers and spirometry. To enable self-management, we can provide in-app videos and digital leaflets for patient education. Equally important, patients have access to their dashboard, providing a visually engaging view of trends in their own health and wellbeing data.
Clinician dashboard
The Medopad platform is built specifically for each clinician and their patient cohort via a custom integration. Clinicians monitor and manage their patient cohort through a web-based dashboard, where they can view trends in patient data that otherwise were not available to them before. Empowered with increased information, stakeholders can create customised alerts to identify patients who are progressing poorly. By extension, data availability allows clinicians to provide a high level of personalisation in between clinic appointments by sending patients customised notifications to support self-management.
Stage of Development:
Market ready and adopted - Fully proven, commercially deployable, market ready and already adopted in some areas (in a different region or sector)
WMAHSN priorities and themes addressed:
Mental Health: recovery, crisis and prevention / Long term conditions: a whole system, person-centred approach / Wellness and prevention of illness / Education, training and future workforce / Wealth creation / Digital health / Innovation and adoption / Patient and medicines safety / Person centred care
Benefit to NHS:
Medopad's solution enables clinicians to spot health deterioration sooner, preventing costly complications. To name a few, we are working the Royal Free NHS Teaching Hospital, Guy's and St. Thomas's, Royal Salford, and Chelsea and Westminster.
At Guys' and St. Thomas' hospital, we are working with both community nurses and hospital vascular consultants to monitor venuous leg ulcer healing. While there are no estimates for the total cost burden of venous leg ulcers specifically, the total cost of acute and chronic wounds to the UK NHS is estimated to range from £4.5 to £5.1 billion, with 78% of costs falling on community NHS services for chronic wounds (Guest et al 2015). This pilot is currently underway. Patient's leg ulcers are photographed by themselves or the community nurse during wound dressing changes. Patients' acitivity is also tracked, as increasing mobility is a sign of a healing leg ulcer. This pilot is being used by vascular consultants to identify deteriorating wounds earlier, which may necessitate a move from a community-based management to hospital-based interventions.
At the Royal Salford, we are working with consultants to monitor patients with renal disease. In this pilot, patients are completing tasks at home that would normally be done by the nurse. Specifically, patients are monitoring weight, blood pressure, and completing a urine test at home using Healthy IO's urine dip stick test. This saves the nures time when the patient does travel into clinic, where the nurse needs only complete the remaing blood test. Apart from saving nurses time during clinic, renal consultants are able to monitor patient progress in between appointments. If patients' blood pressure and weight are not deteriorating, the consultant may postpone the appointment, and equally, if indicators seem to be worsening, the consultant can provide timely care by bringing the patient in sooner. Renal disease is a costly condition; the NHS in England spent an estimated £1.45 billion on CKD in 2009–10. By monitoring patient progress, there is potential to reduce some of these costs by reducing disease progression and complications.
Initial Review Rating
5.00 (1 ratings)
Benefit to WM population:
The Medopad platform provides clinicians with insight into patient progress in between clinic appointments, this has the potential to provide patients with preventative and timely care by spotting problems sooner (as described in the previous section). For the patient, prevention of further deterioration means improved quality of life. Additionally, the platform has the potential to reduce unnecessary clinic appointments for patients.
At the Royal Free, patients with peripheral arterial hypertension (PAH - a rare disease) are using the Medopad smartphone to avoid travelling into clinic for appointments. Instead, patients complete a six-minute walk test (a measure of disease progression) at home. Since it can be done from home, patients can do this more frequently, on a weekly basis, which provides clinicians with richer data on which to assess patient progress. Due to the nature of the condition, PAH patients suffer from symptoms like breathlessness that are made worse with activity. By avoiding long distance travelling to one of seven specialist PAH centres, patients' health is improved and they have a better experience of care.
At the Harley Street Clinic, we have worked with children that have a rare form of brain cancer (DIPG). Parents recorded videos of their child performing certain tasks and recorded additional health data. The clinician was able to more frequently monitor the children's progress without putting additional undue strain on both parent and child. Using the platform in this way was particularly improtant for vulnerable patients, such as these children, not to mention reducing the burden on parents.
Current and planned activity:
As mentioned in the previous sections, our solution and deployments have been co-developed with clinical experts and innovators across several top UK NHS teaching hospitals.
We are currently looking for partners in the West Midlands, such as the AHSN, clinicians, and nurses, to engage in several pilot projects across a range of disease areas. Medopad is offering pilot projects free of charge for 12 months as a way to gather evidence of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness for our solution. As a part of the project, we include implementation and ongoing support.
In the longer term, we are looking to provide a transformative experience of care by providing intelligent and AI-powered clinical support systems to move the needle from reactive to preventative care. In that vein, we are looking for motivated and committed health care professionals to work with us in this journey.
What is the intellectual property status of your innovation?:
Medopad's IP is related to its smartphone app and clinician web-portal.
Return on Investment (£ Value):
Very high
Return on Investment (Timescale):
0-6 mon
Ease of scalability:
Simple
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