The Journal of mHealth Vol 3 Issue 5 (Oct/Nov) | Page 10

INDUSTRY
NEWS

Industry News

Awards Recognise the Best of UK
Healthcare IT And the winners are...
Excellence in mobile healthcare
South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS), Ortivus AB and
Quicksilva Limited
Project: Mobile Summary Care Record Access for Ambulances

News and Information for
Digital Health Professionals

'Old-School’ Medical Device
Partners with ‘Next-Gen’ Digital
Platform
speech and swallowing due to decreased
breath support. It is used both diagnostically to measure lung capacity
and therapeutically to
improve breathing
function as

PN Medical and
Orbita
develop
breakthrough Breather+®
respiratory muscle training
device and applications for remote
care management
PN Medical, an industry leader in pulmonary and speech rehabilitation technology, has chosen Orbita to advance the
company’s goals of improving lives and
reducing health care costs among patients
with chronic conditions such as asthma,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD,) congestive heart failure (CHF,)
hypertension and dysphagia. PN Medical will leverage Orbita’s unique digital
platform to enable clinicians to better
monitor and support patients undergoing
therapy for these conditions at home.

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PN Medical’s newest device, Breather+™,
is a Bluetooth-enabled respiratory muscle
training (RMT) device for patients with
abnormal breathing function or shortness
of breath as well as problems with

October/November 2016

patients perform inhaling and exhaling exercises. Sensors embedded in the Breather+
capture lung function and patient adherence data. That data is instantly sent to the
Orbita-powered practitioner dashboard
via the Breather+ mobile app and provides
meaningful information to monitor and
manage patients.
“In 1980, we were first to market
with The Breather™, our revolutionary
respiratory device. Now, thanks to our
partnership with Orbita, we’re leading
the way again in transforming healthcare at home,” said PN Medical’s CEO
Mark A. Carbone. “We are thrilled to
partner with Orbita, the only technology provider that met all of our
requirements for creating this smart,

connected care application.”
The Breather+ device and platform supports early intervention and more targeted, personalized treatment which Carbone says will not only reduce emergency
room visits, but also improve patient’s
quality of life as the original Breather has
been doing for 30 years.
“We are pleased to partner with such an
innovative company as PN Medical to
bring this intelligent, connected home
care management solution to market,”
said Orbita CEO Bill Rogers. “We are
seeing just how powerful technology can
be in solving patient adherence challenges
and addressing fragmented communication and collaboration among patients,
their caregivers and clinicians. It’s all
about engaging patients, informing caregiver s and empowering providers.”
Carbone’s passion with PN Medical
was inspired after seeing both of his
parents struggle with significant cardiac and pulmonary conditions. “I
witnessed the patient/provider breakdown first hand and was emboldened
to find a way to do something about
it,” he said. “Anything to keep my dad
from going back to the hospital when
he could stay home was his wish to me.
This new technology is allowing us to
do just that.” n

Best use of IT to support healthcare business efficiency
South West London Pathology and Orion Health
Project: Creating an integrated pathology service for South
West London Pathology
A project that has given ambulance crews mobile access to summary care records and an App for pelvic floor muscle exercises
were among the winning digital health projects recognised at the
10th annual EHI Awards, held in London last month.
The annual black-tie event held at London’s prestigious Lancaster Hotel, is the UK’s only dedicated awards ceremony to recognise excellence in healthcare IT. With award categories covering
health apps to clinical solutions, the night saw representatives
from some of the UK’s most successful healthcare digital transformation projects collect awards for their ground-breaking
work in the sector.

Digital NHS trust or health board of the year
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Project: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust – Roadmap to a
Digital Health Enterprise
Best use of technology to share information with
patients and carers
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust & Propagator Ltd
Project: Squeezy Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise App
Best use of IT to support integrated healthcare services

The Journal of mHealth was pleased to be in attendance on the
night, for the awards which were presented by well-known comedian Ruby Wax, who has more recently become known for
her work to raise awareness of mental health issues. We were
similarly proud to be able to support the event as a sponsor for
the award for Excellence in mobile healthcare which was won
by South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS), Ortivus AB and
Quicksilva Limited for their Mobile Summary Care Record Access for Ambulances.

King’s Health Partners and Lambeth and Southwark NHS
Clinical Commissioning Groups
Project: Joining up patient care in Lambeth and Southwark

Commenting on the night Dave Panther, sales director at the
awards organiser Informa, said: "Tonight is about celebrating
the fantastic entrants and this year's winners for the innovative
work they are doing in the healthcare sector...for the benefit of
hospitals, clinicians and most importantly patients."

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Project: My medical record

The awards are a precursor to the EHI Live 2016 event which
will be held in Birmingham on the 1st and 2nd of November.
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Excellence in healthcare business analytics
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Project: Reducing clinical variation through new insights
Best use of IT to support clinical treatment and care

The CCIO award for clinical informatics leadership
Dr Masood Nazir, GP and chief clinical information officer at
NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG
Best use of IT to promote patient safety
NHS Fife
Project: A Scottish first in patient safety
Healthcare IT product innovation
Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, University
of Leeds and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust; Institute of Applied Health Research, University of
Birmingham; ResearchOne, TPP; SystmOne, TPP; Faculty of
Health Studies, University of Bradford
Project: Development, validation and implementation of
an electronic Frailty Index

The Journal of mHealth

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