DHI/Mydex project wins international award
Mydex CIC is one of a group of organisations winning an international award for Technology Enabled Care. The project in Moray, Scotland has been named best Up and Coming TEC innovation at the ITEC (International Technology Care) Awards 2024 this month.
The project is part of a UK government-funded Rural Centre of Excellence and run under the auspices of the Scotland-based Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI). It revolves around the generation and collation of holistic data of social determinants of health. Mydex personal data stores lie at the heart of it, enabling individuals to collect and share data about their lives and their health under their control.
Press reports quote Dr Malcolm Simmons, GP clinical lead for Moray, as saying:
“The development of the personal data store has the potential to overcome several significant practical difficulties patients, families, GPs, carers, and other professionals face when trying to share information that is used to optimise the care provided to an individual. With the person controlling who has access to their information, the individual can choose to share their information with everyone who is important to them, thereby allowing health and care teams to communicate more effectively, improving care for the individual at the centre of this model.”
“In the future, everyone could have access to this technology, allowing phone or tablet real-time access to results, health information and advice with up-to-date information about local resources and services that might help deal with health problems or encourage a healthier lifestyle.”
The collation and analysis of the data in the project is internationally unique and offers the potential for significant impact to both citizens and services through its ability to generate individual and population level insights. This enables enhanced self-management, early intervention and targeted resources, the idea being to relieve pressure on frontline services and deliver more targeted and efficient care.
This is one of many projects Mydex CIC is currently working on to use its personal data infrastructure to help people and services deliver and experience better health and care outcomes at lower cost, in terms of time, energy and hassle as well as money.
