Feb 222012
We like to introduce you to HANDI. A new not-for-profit venture for those developing health and care apps.
This blog will be our temporary home while we get ourselves properly established. We have registered HANDI as a Community Interest Company Limited by Guarantee and plan a formal launch in May. In the interim we want to tell you about us and enlist your support to develop our ideas further for our mutual benefit and that of UK Health and Care.
This initial site is very much a “straw man” and we want your input to help shape how HANDI develops.
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Excellent concept Ewan. I am keen to be involved in this. And would be happy to relay my companys experience in getting to the stage where we are shortly to undertake our first “proof of concept” trials for a prostate cancer app in a trust in South Wales.
Will be interesting to see what the response is from Government, DH etc with regards standards, regulation, liability etc., as this is IMO a forthcoming obstacle that could, in typical NHS timescales, be quite protracted.
Hello, you appear to be doing something with Health Apps that is similar to what we are trying to do with community safety so there may be scope to cooperate on some projects concerning vulnerable people. Also, for our conference that will be held at Lancashire Police HQ, Preston on the 6th. June we have secured a Cabinet Office speaker (Dr. Patrick Clark) who will presenting the Government’s ideas on secure and confidential information exchanges between the voluntary sector and the Public Service Network – the details of our organisation (Squeak) and our conference can be found at our web site – http://www.esqueak.co.uk
Regards,
Steve Foston, North Lincolnshire Safer Neighbourhoods and Designated Member, Community Safety Interconnect UK LLP
[...] report on the debate at the Health Forum makes for intriguing reading – as is his hat-tip to HANDI, an innovations company focusing on app development which looks very promising indeed [...]
[...] writes: Possibly the most disruptive speaker was Rob Dyke of Handi (Health Apps Network for Development and Innovation), who helps clinicians to write apps. He is scornful about “big IT” in healthcare. [...]