iPLATO is a Patient Care Messaging system that allows sending text appointment reminders and other mobile patient services in UK Primary Care. Patients just have to register their mobile phone number in their surgery in order to receive appointment reminders and other health information in their mobile phones.
Despite a slow introduction, the service is gaining momentum among users and latest measurements have revealed a reduction of missed doctor appointments by 27% in Lewisham Primary Care Trust in London, UK.
This kind of experiences demonstrate how important is Health Care nowadays. Europe population is getting older as life expentancy has increased lately. People are very aware of this and public institutions ,like European Union, are making big efforts to foster services that will serve to face that problems in a near future.
SevenClick has also this problem in mind. We are currently developing a eHealth system for Vodafone focused in IMS networks. The system performs real-time monitoring of risk groups (old people, cronic patients,…) through bluetooth biometric sensors
Via Celular News
