Tom Coleman
CEO & Co-Founder, Zendra Health
Offering patients all the healthcare information they need in one easy-to-access place can help them better manage their own care and recover quicker.
Digital technology can have massive benefits in bridging the gap between patients and healthcare professionals to improve health outcomes.
This can range from helping patients to become more engaged in their healthcare, better adhering to medication and rehabilitation regimes through to care teams having better visibility of people they may not be able to physically visit on a regular basis.
Patient-centric care
Digital health expert and Zendra Health CEO Tom Coleman explains that digital health can make healthcare more accessible and support patients with more than one condition, in their own home.
“It is about delivering personalised care to their needs,” he says, “and moving care away from the acute setting into more community-based setting and at home.”
For patients, it empowers them and they can feel comfortable that a care team can see how they are doing in between clinic visits.
Navigating pathways
The idea for the company emerged from seeing their mother, who had rheumatoid arthritis, struggle with navigating her way through the care pathway.
“She would have reminders on her phone to take her meds, educational leaflets scattered under her footrest and a plastic bag for all of her appointment letters,” says Coleman.
By putting all the patient information – which can often be fragmented – in one place digitally and available on laptop, PC, tablet or smartphone and tailored to that cohort, it enables patients to have what they need close to hand and cuts down the time healthcare professionals spend doing admin tasks with patients.
For patients, it empowers them and they can feel comfortable that a care team can see how they are doing in between clinic visits.
Healthcare visibility
Zendra Health’s solution can also give healthcare staff visibility of how their patient is doing, highlight whether they need additional care such as a social worker visit, or cut down on routine face-to-face visits.
“For patients, it empowers them and they can feel comfortable that a care team can see how they are doing in between clinic visits,” Coleman adds.
Patients, caregivers and care teams can rapidly co-create a digital health solution using Zendra’s Health’s technology in just one day. With the tremendous support of HSE Digital Transformation team and Sligo Living Lab, Zendra Health is helping healthcare services in the US, UK and Ireland transform from a diseased-centred model to a truly patient-centric and integrated model.
Zendra Health is a Dublin-based medical technology company that works with healthcare services to improve the patient experience and optimise care pathways through its turnkey digital health platform.