iPLATO Healthcare, leader in mobile health promotion, revealed that coverage of their Patient Care Messaging services has risen to over a million GP patients. Fuelling this growth has been the ground breaking platform combined with the company’s unique service offering and expertise which allows its NHS partners to dramatically improve patient access and deliver powerful health promotion campaigns.  [Read More]

Patients in Barking and Dagenham will soon be receiving health promotion information and appointment reminders to their mobiles phones via text message. Barking and Dagenham Primary Care Trust has offered the iPLATO Patient Care Messaging platform to their GP surgeries after evaluating the benefits of using mobile technology as a targeted and highly responsive way of engaging with patients.  [Read More]

Delivering critical health information to the people that need it most, nine GP surgeries in Lambeth, South London have been using iPLATO Patient Care Messaging to send text message invitations to patients for their annual Flu immunisation. Supported by Lambeth Primary Care Trust the initiative aims to increase immunisation rates amongst “at risk” patients whilst streamlining service delivery. Both the elderly and patients with chronic conditions, who are particularly susceptible to the flu during the winter months, are invited for free vaccinations via text message from their GP surgeries.  [Read More]

City and Hackney Primary Care Trust has partnered with mobile healthcare specialist iPLATO and seven local GP surgeries to pilot the use of advanced messaging services to reduce the prevalence of smoking in the borough. Supported by the PCT, GP surgeries will use iPLATO’s platform, Patient Care Messaging integrated to their GP system, to engage directly with patients around smoking status updates, invitation to stop smoking clinics, on-going quit support and follow-ups.  [Read More]

The 14th annual EMIS National User Group Conference to be hosted at Warwick University will see iPLATO featured as an exhibitor.  [Read More]

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GP surgeries in Islington have found that using text messaging for smoking cessation campaigns (getting smokers to quit) is six times more effective than traditional ways of contacting patients. Leading Islington practices using the iPLATO text messaging system have reported patient response rates of 30% (versus a response rate of 5% using letters). By isolating patients on their GP system, surgeries can send out a text message asking patients to text back their current smoking status. Patients who indicate that they are still smokers and trying to quit are then invited to smoking cessation clinics.

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