Cambridge Healthcare

Cambridge Healthcare is working with NHS Midlands and East to develop and promote howareyou.com, an e-Health portal for patients and healthcare professionals. The portal will integrate with the NHS IT infrastructure and provide the platform for an unlimited number of healthcare applications.

As well as providing an electronic personal health plan for patients, we will create the first ever healthcare application store, encouraging third parties, including medical technology companies and healthcare providers to design an unlimited range of innovative, useful and high-quality applications.

Supported Self Care and Management

By creating a user account at howareyou.com, patients will be able to import their medical history, monitor disease parameters, set personal health goals and much more. Importantly, they can share this information with their doctors and carers, enabling improved coordination of care. They can also personalise their portal with disease or drug-specific information sources, applications, devices and support groups.

Benefits of healthcare data

Capturing health data in this way will inform clinical decision-making, enabling better and more personalised patient management. It will alert clinicians early to imminent exacerbations, allowing rapid intervention or prevention. Locally and regionally, it will inform commissioning, resource allocation and logistics, improving efficiency. Nationally, it will inform public health policies and measure their outcomes.