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222 Kensal Road
London
W10 5BN
UK
[t] 0208 1230150
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iPLATO was awarded a SMART Feasibility Grant by the UK's Department of Trade & Industry in 2003 to study the feasibility of a national implementation of a system in the UK to remind outpatients about scheduled appointments using text messaging technology. |
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Two practices at the Dunbar Medical Centre in east Lothian become the first GP Surgeries in Scotland to launch iPLATO Patient Care Messaging. |
07 July 2010 |
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iPLATO Healthcare, the leader in mHealth, announced today that a smart health promotion campaign delivered in partnership with 24 GP surgeries using iPLATO Patient Care Messaging generated 1,850 qualified referrals to NHS Health Checks in just four weeks. |
14 June 2010 |
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iPLATO Healthcare launches mSite - a new module of iPLATO Patient Care Messaging which is provided free of charge to licensed GP surgeries and will enable each surgery to create their own mobile internet site to inform patients about opening hours, contacts details, access maps and out of hours services. |
03 March 2010 |
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The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, in partnership with iPLATO Healthcare, is launching a new service to support people with epilepsy. |
11 December 2009 |
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iPLATO is actively engaging with the company’s network of PCTs and GPs to highlight the potential of SMS GP-led Swine Flu vaccine invitations. |
26 October 2009 |
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Patients of GP practices in Greenwich in London will soon benefit from receiving text messages to support health promotion and patient ‘access’. |
20 October 2009 |
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Hammersmith and Fulham health service are helping smokers to kick the habit by providing SMS status alerts using iPLATO patient care messaging |
09 October 2009 |
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GP Surgeries in Camden are successfully sending out text messages advising patients on what to do if they think they have Swine Flu. |
05 August 2009 |
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The North London Community Dermatology Service (NLCDS), which started on 1 July 2008 and is based at The Royal Free Hospital Hampstead, are now benefiting from receiving appointment reminders to their mobiles phones via text message on an ongoing basis. |
17 July 2009 |
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Patients of GP practices in Wirral are benefiting from receiving appointment reminders and health information to their mobiles phones via text messages provided by iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging system. |
09 July 2009 |
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Recent results from a text messaging campaign carried out by Tower Hamlets PCT have shown that text messaging is capable of improving attendance for breast screening in Tower Hamlets. |
16 February 2009 |
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Increasing numbers of GP surgeries across London are opting to use the iPLATO text messaging capability to increase the uptake of self screening tests for Chlamydia. |
10 February 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT - Wireless technology is increasingly helping healthcare providers improve patient health by enabling patients access to healthcare more quickly and easily. |
30 January 2009 |
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An innovative scheme using mobile technology to identify patients ‘at risk’ of developing CVD by effectively establishing smoking status has recently proved successful for NHS Hammersmith and Fulham. |
03 December 2008 |
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Exco InTouch’s text messaging technology ATLAS has been selected by Pfizer, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies to enhance the efficacy of its patient recruitment and retention in Phase I clinical trials. |
03 December 2008 |
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Patients of the Bush Doctors and Richford Gate Medical Practice in Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust are to begin receiving automated voice messages requesting information to update their medical record. |
26 August 2008 |
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A text messaging campaign carried out by the Lea Surgery in City and Hackney tPCT which called hypertensive patients in for periodic blood pressure reading has achieved response rates of 76 percent. |
20 August 2008 |
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Pharmacies in London plan to launch a text messaging service to validate smoking status and invite ‘quitters’ for smoking cessation services in addition to using the system for ‘follow-up’ over the next year. |
31 July 2008 |
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GP led text messaging campaigns run by Barking and Dagenham PCT have shown the effectiveness of iPLATO Patient Care Messaging for the identification of smokers. |
23 June 2008 |
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iPLATO has rolled out Patient Care Messaging across 10 Primary Care Trusts in the first quarter of 2008 to allow an additional two million people across England to benefit from improved access and mobile health promotion from their GPs. |
08 May 2008 |
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Hammersmith & Fulham PCT has run a mobile technology trial using iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging to request a patient’s weight via text message as part of a ‘Healthy Living’ programme. |
20 February 2008 |
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iPLATO Healthcare has revealed that coverage of the company’s Patient Care Messaging services has risen to more than a million GP patients. |
13 December 2007 |
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iPLATO's patient care messaging system is supporting Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust to help increase the number of women attending breast cancer screening clinics. |
06 December 2007 |
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Barking and Dagenham PCT patients are to begin receiving health promotion information and appointment reminders to their mobiles phones via text message. |
22 November 2007 |
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Nine GP surgeries in Lambeth, South London are implementing iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging system to send text message invitations to patients for their annual flu immunisation. |
19 October 2007 |
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Following one of the first population-wide deployments of text messaging services, GP surgeries across Lewisham Primary Care Trust in South London, have reduced missed appointments by 27 percent during the last year. |
29 August 2007 |
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City and Hackney Primary Care Trust has partnered iPLATO and seven local GP surgeries to pilot the use of text messaging services to reduce the prevalence of smoking in the borough. |
14 August 2007 |
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Britons travelling abroad to exotic destinations are now able to receive immediate and free travel health information regarding malaria thanks to a new text messaging service developed by mobile healthcare specialist iPLATO. |
29 June 2007 |
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GP surgeries using the iPLATO text messaging system have found new ways to improve patient compliance to the childhood immunisation schedule. |
08 June 2007 |
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A new version of iPLATO's market leading text messaging platform for communication between GPs and patients has been launched. |
15 May 2007 |
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