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Conference News

Enabling Patient-Centred Care
through Information and Technology
Digital Health and Care Congress 2015
16 – 17 June 2015 | The King’s Fund, London
This congress explores how the innovative use of information
and technology is supporting improvements in health and social
care services.

The event is a showcase for exciting new digital health technology, research, and service delivery methods that are having a
positive impact on care providers and patients.

All of the projects that will be featured at the congress have
been through an extensive, peer-reviewed submission process.
Let these innovative approaches to care delivery and patient
engagement inspire and motivate you.

Check out some of the new digital health applications and wearable devices you may have heard about in the exhibition hall
and innovation hub, and mix and mingle with more than 500
attendees from: the NHS; local government; academic institutions; third sector; commercial providers; digital health start-

ups; entrepreneurs, and innovators.

Hear from leading speakers from the NHS:
»» Simon Stevens, Chief Executive, NHS England
»» Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information, NHS England
»» Beverley Bryant, Director of Strategic Systems and Technology, NHS England
»» Paul Rice, Head of Technology Strategy, NHS England
*Also featuring keynote speaker, e-patient Dave!*
Dave deBronkart, known on the internet as e-Patient Dave,
is the author of the highly rated Let Patients Help: A Patient
Engagement Handbook and one of the world’s leading advocates for patient engagement.
Find out more www.kingsfund.org.uk/events/digital-health-and-care-congress-2015 n

Mobile Ultrasound Project Wins
‘Best Mobile Innovation for Health’
Trice Imaging in partnership with Qualcomm Wireless Reach and SonoSite Fuji
Film, has won the prestigious Global
Mobile Award in the category “Best
Mobile Innovation for Health” at the 20th
Global Mobile Awards by the GSMA.

among women living in rural areas, and
in poorer communities. Many high-risk
conditions such as multiple pregnancies,
placenta previa, abnormal fetal presentation and ectopic pregnancies can only be
detected via an ultrasound.

In a statement Trice Imaging commented;
“This is such a thrill and a great reward
for our team that has been working so
hard to not only invent this novel technology but to prove its magnificence.”

In a trial performed in Morocco, the
Mobile Ultrasound Patrol Project
equipped health care professionals working in resource-poor communities with
a small, mobile ultrasound machine and
Internet-connected mobile devices, allowing them to perform ultrasound exams on
pregnant women and, within seconds,
wirelessly transmit the images to a prenatal specialist anywhere in the world for
a second opinion. This approach to early
detection and treatment of placenta complications greatly increases the mother’s
chances of a healthy, safe pregnancy.

“This recognition is important to the
paradigm shift in imaging. We see two
industries merge, medical devices and
telecommunications. Getting the most
prestigious reward in the world of telecommunications brings attention to the
grand potential of Mobile Imaging.”
Every day, around the world, approximately 800 women die from preventable
causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.
99% of all maternal deaths occur in developing countries and the rate is higher

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The project resulted in reduced diagnostic
review times from two weeks to less than
24 hours, and the cost fell from $80 to $2
per patient. It also increased the medical

practitioner’s skills to deliver ultrasounds
from 20% sufficient for diagnostic purposes to 92% sufficient for diagnostics.
The time and cost efficiencies gained,
without any compromise in quality,
improves the likelihood for early detection and treatment of the major causes
of maternal morbidity and mortality
which could, ultimately, reduce the number of maternal and child deaths.
“We are very proud of The Mobile Ultrasound Patrol Project. Using innovative but
simple technologies to provide access to
health care where it’s most needed and less
available is paramount to Trice. We are committed to connect all imaging systems out
there, linking patients with physicians and
physicians with physicians closer together.
Our partners in the project; Qualcomm,
SonoSite and Sony have made invaluable
contributions to the success. Having the
project and our technology acknowledged
by GSMA is an honor,” says Asa Nordgren,
CEO and Co-founder of Trice. n