Mobile WellBeing

As medical knowledge advances, healthcare is becoming more complex. Faced with growing volumes of information and new technologies, clinicians are working in ever-more specialised silos. Who ’s doing what? Is it even possible for a patient to take any responsibility? Yesterday, at the World Health Care Congress Europe, I saw the progress of the webbased Map of Medicine.

The Map of Medicine provides a visualisation of the ideal, evidence-based patient journey. It’s an overview that can be shared across all care settings. Primairely developed and implemented for medics, by the National Health Service in the UK. The Map is a tool for achieving clinical consensus throughout a healthcare community. It:

• Delivers current, evidence-based clinical knowledge from the world’s most authoritative sources, constantly reviewed
• Displays this knowledge in an easy-to-use Pathways format, reflecting the patient journey
• Provides a framework for creating local Pathways using modified or new content specific to a healthcare community.
• Is fully localisable on national and local levels to reflect specific experience and practice.

The Map creates an overarching benchmark for clinical process, a framework for sharing knowledge across care settings, and a tool for mediating a dialogue about the care process.

It’s now available for patients, called Healthguides. It’s even on mobile. This allows patients to see what the next step(s) in medical treatment can be. These steps are presented in a simple workflow, used by the doctors related to the visited medical centre. From symptoms to diagnosis and treatment, using the same easy to follow charts.

“‘The Map of Medicine is used as a healthcare service redesign and clinical knowledge support tool across England and Wales”. said Alexey Brovko, business development manager. “We have international deployments in countries such as Denmark and Australia and have an increasing interest from other countries to”.