But almost half of UK consumers (43%) don’t know their vital signs, and 1 in 3 don’t know their ideal body temperature Kinetik Wellbeing launches health campaign to help educate the nation Redhill, UK; 29th March 2022: A survey of 2,000 consumers by Kinetik Wellbeing has revealed that the majority of people prefer to measure their health at home (61%) rather than a healthcare setting. However, when asked about ideal blood sugar and blood oxygen levels, 43% don’t know the answers. More concerningly, a third of us (35%) don’t know…
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Self-help health market hits one million product sales for Kinetik Wellbeing as UK turns to health management at home
Interest in vital signs monitoring soars, with products relieving pressure on NHS and helping consumers to stay well at home Redhill, UK, 17th January 2022: The pandemic has driven a wave of growth for health-related industries and products, evidenced by the success of Kinetik Wellbeing, the UK company empowering people to take control of their health at home. The company has just achieved one million product sales since 2019 in blood pressure devices, finger pulse oximeters, TENS devices, blood glucose monitors, and thermometers. In the past year, volumes of pulse…
Read MoreControlling and Protecting Copiers and Printers Necessary to Secure Healthcare Data
– By Gabriela Garner, Product Marketing Director at Kofax The use of electronic health records has significantly improved the level of service patients receive today. At the same time, however, data breaches are also becoming common place. This isn’t surprising – today’s patient lifecycle has more touchpoints than ever before. Additionally, networked multi-function devices (MFD) such as copiers and printers are now mainstream in healthcare. Each time a document or form is copied, scanned, printed, faxed or emailed— on either an analogue fax machine, digital MFD or mobile device—protected health…
Read MoreRIVIAM Digital Care is awarded funding from Innovate UK to enhance its new social prescribing platform used in Bath and North East Somerset to transform the way health, social care and third sector organisations are co-ordinating care
22nd July 2020 – RIVIAM Digital Care has been awarded £48,450 funding by Innovate UK to enhance its new social prescribing platform. RIVIAM’s Wellbeing platform is currently used in Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) by Virgin Care, BaNES Council and many third sector organisations, including Age UK BaNES, Citizens Advice BaNES and Bath Mind, to co-ordinate the provision of food, mental health, wellbeing and welfare support for vulnerable people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since April 2020, approximately 1500 cases and just under 6500 calls for support have been managed…
Read MoreUKCloud Health awarded place on new £3bn framework from NHS London Procurement Partnership
UKCloud Health is approved via the Information, Management & Technology (IM&T) framework providing a flexible and compliant way for healthcare organisations to procure UKCloud’s multi-cloud services. London – 12th March 2020 – UKCloud Health, the multi-cloud experts dedicated to powering the Healthcare community, has today announced that it has been successfully selected to provide its services via multiple lots (including Consultancy, Hosting and Cyber Security) on the NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP) framework. Health and social care organisations such as NHS trusts, clinical practices and hospitals are all embarking…
Read MoreBrexit casts a shadow over UK’s Green Future according to Schneider Electric report
UK consumers are more than twice as concerned about Brexit than the nation’s health and wellbeing and more than five times as concerned about it than environmental issues August 1st is the earliest Earth Overshoot Day has ever fallen, yet the vast majority of UK consumers don’t have any plans to improve the way they live their lives from either a health or environmental perspective Generation Z thinks that reducing energy consumption is half as important as those over 55 years of age Young adults are four times less likely…
Read MoreDimension Data Unveils Mobile Application to Track Health and Wellness of Africa’s Pro Cycling Team
Cape Town / London – 17 November 2017 – Dimension Data, the global USD 8 billion ICT solutions and services provider, today unveiled its health and wellness mobile app at the annual training camp of Africa’s professional cycling team, Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka. Called Phila (pee-lah), which means ‘to live’ in Nguni, the app was custom designed to Team Dimension Data’s specific requirements. The app tracks the daily physical and mental performance of the team’s 39 World Tour and Continental riders located in 10 countries. Data collected from the…
Read MoreNatural Power names HSEQ lead
Leading renewable energy and infrastructure consultancy, Natural Power has appointed David Armour as its Head of HSEQ. This wide ranging role includes leading the health, safety, environmental and quality team that provides support and advice to both the company internally and to its clients internationally. David also has responsibility for developing and implementing the HSEQ strategy across Natural Power, maintaining the ISO 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 accreditations and ensuring the organisation carries out its works in a responsible and diligent manner. He said: “Natural Power has a strong reputation…
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