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  App business case builder. (justify support for apps)

  All too often the sometimes blindingly obvious benefits that an app can bring for patients health and wellbeing or productivity gains for Health and Social Care are dismissed by those who have the authority to buy and promote the services. This app would hold a library of pragmatic and approved business case models and facilitate the creation of new cases by the input of variables such as cost per patient and expected ...more »

  All too often the sometimes blindingly obvious benefits that an app can bring for patients health and wellbeing or productivity gains for Health and Social Care are dismissed by those who have the authority to buy and promote the services.

  This app would hold a library of pragmatic and approved business case models and facilitate the creation of new cases by the input of variables such as cost per patient and expected immediate (and tangible) benefits and local health economy benefits.

  Virtually all Health and Social Care organisations that deploy/support apps and telehealth duplicate the expensive and often wasteful process of developing their own business case from scratch. This app would allow everyone to share previous learning and to choose the right approach.

  As an example, taking Moodscape which has overwhelming support on this site but I was previously unaware of (or any other app), my app idea could provide a well defined, acceptable and compelling reason to support or promote it via mainstream services.

  The mobile builder app itself could be used on smartphone, tablet or as a web app,

  - allow the browsing and searching of previous business cases

  - allow the start of a new case based on an existing one

  - allow the input and adjustment of parameters to localise the case

  - present national average information on tariff and equipment costs

  - calculate the likely total cost of ownership

  - calculate the return on investment/ loss over 12 months

  - highlight savings that can be used for QIPP

  - allow the business case to be emailed

  Example of issues with apps/telehealth business cases: bit.ly/qcwu8a

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  Recording, monitoring, behaviour change and LTC self care

  “Florence” or “Flo” is an NHS owned, low cost web app designed to enable many thousands of patients take responsibility for the monitoring and management of their own condition or treatment. Flo allows multiple healthcare teams to share patient information and assist patients in the management of their own care for a single or multiple conditions. Flo is used to: -Regularly collect, monitor and alert on any biometric ...more »

  “Florence” or “Flo” is an NHS owned, low cost web app designed to enable many thousands of patients take responsibility for the monitoring and management of their own condition or treatment. Flo allows multiple healthcare teams to share patient information and assist patients in the management of their own care for a single or multiple conditions.

  Flo is used to:

  -Regularly collect, monitor and alert on any biometric observation or question tree and many validated questionnaires.

  -Improve concordance with treatment regimes through encouragement, reminders and interactive contact.

  -Enable improvements in clinical team productivity and outcome quality

  -Engage patients in their health and social care pathways and services.

  Patient and Nurse use Flo in this NHS video .

  http://youtu.be/MS-R7rwReiI

  Flo is available as a web app, inclusively interacts with patients via SMS and has a smartphone app allowing clinicians to check on patients whilst out and about. A patient smartphone app is on the way bit.ly/n0BkIa

  Sir John Oldham, National Clinical Lead – Quality and Productivity, DoH: “Flo is actively supporting the need to look holistically at patients in line with the QIPP LTC work stream.”

  Flo has also won a SHINE bit.ly/mUIB3O award from the Health Foundation for an 800 patient, General Practice hypertension control/CKD project.

  See what the Queens Nursing Institute thinks about Flo in this video.

  http://youtu.be/5RNdADw_ZKs

  More information at www.stoke.nhs.uk/simple bit.ly/p7Zstu and follow on twitter @NHSSimple

  Florence is the "app" element of the NHS Simple Telehealth (STH) methodology.

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  New recording, monitoring, behaviour change, LTC self care app

  Wow, that’s a lot for an app to do I hear you say. You are right, it would need capabilities way beyond what is possible solely with a smartphone app. However "my favourite app" bit.ly/oPqDX6 an NHS owned, low cost innovation “Florence” aka “Flo” is already doing all of this and a lot more, working with unlimited single conditions and co-morbidities sharing data instantly across primary, secondary and 3rd sector teams, ...more »

  Wow, that’s a lot for an app to do I hear you say. You are right, it would need capabilities way beyond what is possible solely with a smartphone app. However "my favourite app" bit.ly/oPqDX6 an NHS owned, low cost innovation “Florence” aka “Flo” is already doing all of this and a lot more, working with unlimited single conditions and co-morbidities sharing data instantly across primary, secondary and 3rd sector teams, but what it does not have yet is a smartphone app for patients.

  The system is already inclusive, using SMS to communicate and the great majority give it a 5 out of 5 for ease of use. However although patients already get automated, personalised instant feedback (advice, education and reassurance) it would be a huge leap forward if a smartphone app were available for the patient front end featuring:

  -Accessibility options for graphical manual input

  -“in-app” storage of data

  -“in-app” storage of patients own comments against data input

  -Presentation of data in charts and graphs

  -bluetooth links with clinical devices such as thermometers, weighing scales, Blood pressure meters, blood testing devices etc.

  Making Flo slicker and more attractive for us app believers is all well and good, but more importantly it would also extend Flo’s great capabilities to cohorts of patients and social care users currently excluded due to accessibility, dexterity and inability to use SMS or mobiles.

  “Flo is actively supporting the need to look holistically at patients in line with the QIPP LTC work stream.” Sir John Oldham: National Clinical Lead – Quality and Productivity, DoH

  Details at www.stoke.nhs.uk/simple bit.ly/p7Zstu

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