18th April 2012
Trial With Diabetes Patients As part of the West Midlands rollout of Florence, South and East Staffordshire Community Diabetes team set out to tackle a significant problem. Groups of diabetic patients were unable to consistently manage their condition within the normal clinical pathway, this results in many Doctor/ Clinician contacts and hospital admissions. That’s before
Here’s a quick run down on how Florence is already being used. Note: Some of these are specific medical conditions (e.g. Asthma), some are more generic (e.g. Blood Pressure). The purpose is to give you a feel for how wide Florence can be used. These are all live and running on Florence now: Hypertension Asthma
11th April 2012
In This release Florence makes it even easier to manage patients • A new view to manage patient invites • Straight forward re-invitations • and due to popular demand you can now filter by patient alerts We can hear the crowd cheer with joy Happy Easter
12th July 2011
You can’t expect to launch a healthcare system and hope Doctors and Nurses up and down the country will welcome it with open arms. No, you’ll need some kind of external validation. An independent person to talk to patients and clinicians, check our numbers and claims. Yes, someone to conduct a proper evaluation. That’s what
7th July 2011
Quite a significant update this time. Over the last 3 months we’ve been noting all the regular customer support enquiries to judge which aspects of the system is causing regular confusion or error. So here goes: Patients can “Pause” texts from Florence What happens if a patient is on holiday, been re-admitted to hospital, or
22nd February 2011
Bug fixes, tweaks and improvements, we’ve just made another release to improve Florence. My Patients When you add a patient we send them a text message invite, only when they reply to this invite can we start sending text messages. Unfortunately not all patients complete this step. But we do need to contact these patients
19th January 2011
We’ve just published an update to Florence to improve a few areas of usability and new functionality. Discharging Patients Discharging a patient from your case load couldn’t be easier. Login to Florence, select the patient concerned, click the “Edit Patient” link, and at the bottom right you’ll see an option to either Discharge or Transfer
5th January 2011
We’ve made a few improvements to Florence. Just a few things to improve clinical governance, make the system more secure and just that little bit easier to use. Password reminders Lost your password? No problem, just go to the login page and click the “Forgotten your password?” link. The process is easy to follow but
18th April 2010
After a long slog of development we got the website application for Florence live and kicking today. Login is at www.florence.uk.net. Don’t get too excited though, there is nothing to see here other than a login page. At this stage login is reserved for our early stage testers at Stoke on Trent PCT. We’ve posted
18th December 2009
Today we signed a collaboration agreement to work with Stoke on Trent PCT to design and build a text message based healthcare system. It’s our shared belief that mobile technology, and in particular SMS, can be used to deliver healthcare right into the hands or pockets of millions of people. There are literally millions of