Healthtech companies on the South Coast to watch
Technology improves virtually everything. This is especially true when it comes to healthcare. Software, apps, devices... If there's a product or service offered by healthcare professionals, there's a company out there developing tech to support and improve it.
Healthtech is easily the fastest-growing vertical in the healthcare sector in 2022. So it shouldn't come as a huge surprise to learn that the South Coast has its fair share of innovative healthtech companies.
Here's our list of the 10 to keep an eye on...
1, Share My X-Ray - Southampton
This forward-thinking Hampshire firm, founded in 2015, provides a digital radiography image analysis tool for healthcare practitioners. The company has also created software to aid with X-ray imaging and diagnostics. It includes image sharing, reporting, patient information management and other functions. Essentially, it makes the sharing and receiving of X-rays much, much easier.
2, Lifelight - Southampton
This Southampton-based tech firm, formed in 2019, offers an app for crucial health monitoring. The company provides a smartphone/tablet app that allows people to monitor and track bodily health metrics like blood pressure, pulse, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, and so on. It enables any smartphone or tablet device to monitor these metrics by merely staring into the device's built-in camera for 40 seconds.
3, Bounce Technologies - Brighton
Bounce's main tool is an app developed by the Brighton-based business designed to improve people's mental health. It provides evidence-based workouts to improve the user's mindset. It employs a variety of approaches to promote optimism and mental agility. The app includes daily exercises and reminders, as well as measuring mental wellness through goal achievement.
4, Solcom - Isle of Wight
Solcom offers innovative solutions that are about encouraging better working practices. Their primary product is the Whzan Digital Health system, one of the world’s very first ever cloud-based healthcare systems. And their latest product? 'SHEILA'. A new way to monitor the safety, health and activity of vulnerable people in their own homes.
5, my mHealth - Bournemouth
Set up in Dorset eleven years ago, my mHealth provide digital therapeutics for long-term illnesses. They offer an online platform to assist individuals in managing chronic conditions such as diabetes, COPD and asthma. Patients can obtain patient education films, use action plans for condition management, as well as track vital data. Clinicians can also use the platform to monitor patients using the technology.
6, Nourish - Bournemouth
Nourish has been providing advanced care and nursing home administration software that is both customisable and simple to use for the past five years. The technology is used to capture, store and access all of a person's care records in both residential care homes and domiciliary care. It allows providers to take all of their care notes on the go, using apps tailored to the needs of each care setting.
Nourish is also utilised within care teams to communicate. Caregivers can log issues and send alerts and messages to other members of staff. All notes and data are securely kept on the cloud, allowing caregivers to sync their notes from anywhere.
7, Medberry - Brighton
Based in West Sussex, Medberry provides a smartphone-based procedure data logging programme for hospital practitioners. Medberry's Med Gas Log is a logbook app for professional anaesthesia, critical care, regional block, pre-hospital, and retrieval medicine. They've been in business since 2015 and are the industry leader in the procedural data logging field.
8, myAko - Bournemouth
myAko is a low-cost online learning platform. Among the course topics available on the customisable learning management solution are: asbestos awareness, autism awareness, basic life support, conflict management, dementia awareness, health & safety, fire awareness, learning disabilities, mental health, and many more.
9, MyLiferaft - Southampton
MyLiferaft is a web-based application that places the individual at the centre of their care circle. They've been running the company from Maritime Walk in Southampton since 2015, connecting health, wellbeing, and social care with, of course, technology.
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