2010 Press Releases

Aug 19-2010	NHS Tower Hamlets uses text messaging to boost attendance rate for Cervical Screening. London, 19 August, 2010 - Eligible patients in NHS Tower Hamlets will soon be benefiting from receiving SMS invitations for cervical screening from their GP surgeries. Free to receive for the patient, the reminder service is fully funded by the PCT. All GP surgeries will use the secure and NHS approved iPLATO Patient Care Messaging system to streamline this communication. [Read More]
Aug 9-2010	Sandwell Primary Care Trust Innovates to Increase Child Immunisation Uptake London, August 9^th, 2010 - Sandwell Primary Care Trust will soon introduce text messaging as an innovative and practical means of reminding parents of children under the age 5 to attend immunisation clinics. Using the NHS approved iPLATO Patient Care Messaging system combined with immunisation records on their GP system, the GP surgeries will send SMS reminders asking parents to book an appointment for their child’s immunisation jabs. [Read More]
Aug 4-2010	iPLATO awarded National Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching framework agreement London, August 4th 2010. iPLATO Healthcare announced today that the company has been awarded a framework agreement for Assistive Technologies which includes Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching products and services. This is good news for NHS organisations and Local Authorities across the country that will now be able to purchase products and services from an online catalogue under pre-agreed terms and conditions, managed by Buying Solutions. [Read More]
Jul 6-2010	Dunbar Medical Centre launches first Patient Care Messaging in Scotland London, July 6th, 2010 - iPLATO Healthcare, the leader in mHealth, announced today that two practices at the Dunbar Medical Centre in east Lothian recently became the first GP Surgeries in Scotland to launch iPLATO Patient Care Messaging. In response to patient preferences for mobile communication in primary care the system is expected to reduce waiting times for GP appointments and enable GP-led, personalised and timely public health promotion. [Read More]
Jun 15-2010	Midlands PCT Uses Mobile to Generate More Than 1,000 Qualified Referrals to Health Checks London, June 8th 2010 - iPLATO Healthcare, the leader in mHealth, announced today that a smart health promotion campaign delivered in partnership with 24 GP surgeries using iPLATO Patient Care Messaging generated 1,850 qualified referrals to NHS Health Checks in just four weeks. Supported by the iPLATO team the average participating surgery spent less than 1 hour on delivering this campaign which resulted in 1 qualified referral per minute of surgery effort. [Read More]
Apr 26-2010	Lexum European Eye Clinic Launches iPLATO Patient Care Messaging Prague, 26 April 2010 - Lexum European Eye Clinic, a network of private ophthalmology clinics in the Czech Republic, announced today that its patients in Prague are benefiting from receiving appointment reminders via text message. Launched in March the new mobile health service is already proving popular with patients who appreciate the convenience and speed of interacting with their eye doctor via their mobile phone. [Read More]
Mar 3-2010	NHS Hammersmith and Fulham launches iPLATO Smartphone services to Promote Health London, March 2^nd 2010, iPLATO Healthcare, the leader in mobile health today announced the launch of mSite - a new module of iPLATO Patient Care Messaging. mSite, provided free of charge to licensed GP surgeries, will enable each surgery to create their own mobile internet site to inform patients about opening hours, contacts details, access maps and out of hours services. [Read More]

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