Patients Know Best

	Patients Know Best Patients Know Best is a British social enterprise, with an aim of putting patients in control of their own medical records. In the UK, Patients Know Best integrates into the NHS app and in the Netherlands, it integrates with the government's personal health records infrastructure (PGO). Its Chairman is Dr Richard Smith. Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli is the founder and chief executive officer. The system is the preferred personal health record for London. It is in use in 22 different languages at more than 60 hospitals throughout the UK, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, the US and the Netherlands. After trials conducted by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board it is to be rolled out across Wales in 2017. In July 2019 it formed a partnership with HealthUnlocked HealthUnlocked is a social networking service for health. The company uses health-specific artificial intelligence to support patients to better manage their own health, by recommending relevant and tailored health co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Social Enterprise A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being. This may include maximizing social impact alongside profits for co-owners. Social enterprises can be structured as a business, a partnership profit (economics), for-profit or Nonprofit organization, non-profit, and may take the form (depending on in which country the entity exists and the legal forms available) of a co-operative, mutual organization, a disregarded entity, a social business, a benefit corporation, a community interest company, a company limited by guarantee or a charity organisation. They can also take more conventional structures. Social enterprises have business, environmental and social goals. As a result, their social goals are embedded in their objective, which differentiates them from other organisations and companies. A social enterprise's main purpose is to promote, encourage, and make social change.J., Lane, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Richard Smith (editor) Richard Smith CBE FMedSci is a British medical doctor, editor, and businessman. He is director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease in the developing world. The initiative is funding centres in China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Tunisia, Tanzania, South Africa, Central America, and the US Mexico border. He is also chairman of the board of directors of Patients Know Best. Previously he was chief executive of UnitedHealth Europe, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group that works with public health systems in Europe. Before that he was editor of the '' BMJ'' (previously the ''British Medical Journal''), and chief executive of the BMJ Group. Smith worked for the ''BMJ'' for twenty-five years, from 1979 to 2004, the last thirteen as editor. Smith is a proponent of open access publishing. He was editor of the ''BMJ'' when the journal first moved to online publishing, and made the journal's archives freely available. He sits on the board of directors of the Public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) ( cy, Bwrdd lechyd Prifysgol Bae Abertawe) is the local health board of NHS Wales for Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, in the south-west of Wales. Established as Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board (ABMUHB) in 2009, it was renamed and had its boundaries altered on 1 April 2019. In February 2019 it was decided to rename it ''Swansea Bay University Health Board'' and to alter the boundary with the Cwm Taf University Health Board (now Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board). The board's predecessor, the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board was formally created on 1 October 2009 when the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust formally merged with the local health boards of Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend. The headquarters for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust (and the existing health board) is located in Baglan Bay, Port Talbot and the first Chief Executive was Paul Williams. The Abertawe Bro Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	HealthUnlocked HealthUnlocked is a social networking service for health. The company uses health-specific artificial intelligence to support patients to better manage their own health, by recommending relevant and tailored health content, information and services to patients The site enables peer support for various health conditions and promotes Patient participation, patient empowerment by actively engaging people with their healthcare. The social network hosts online communities within a dedicated health Computing platform, web platform. There are currently over 700 different health communities on the HealthUnlocked website, for a wide range of health and wellbeing conditions. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile and join one or more of these online communities. Many of the online communities are run in partnership with health organizations, Nonprofit organization, non-profit organization's (NPO) and charities worldwide, including Anxiety and Depression Associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Social Prescribing Social prescribing (also known as community referral) is when health professionals refer patients to support in the community, in order to improve their health and wellbeing. The concept has gained support in the NHS organisations of the United Kingdom as well as in Ireland and the Netherlands and forms part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The referral mechanisms, target groups, services offered through social prescribing vary across settings. However, the process usually involves screening for non-medical needs and referrals to support services that are typically offered by community-based organizations. The goals of social prescribing are to reduce the rise of healthcare costs and easing pressure of general practice clinics. A 2015 Commission in the UK estimated that about 20% of patient consultations were for social problems rather than medical problems. Definition Social prescribing is a non-medical referral option for a range of professionals, including GPs and allied medical st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Social Enterprises A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being. This may include maximizing social impact alongside profits for co-owners. Social enterprises can be structured as a business, a partnership for-profit or non-profit, and may take the form (depending on in which country the entity exists and the legal forms available) of a co-operative, mutual organization, a disregarded entity, a social business, a benefit corporation, a community interest company, a company limited by guarantee or a charity organisation. They can also take more conventional structures. Social enterprises have business, environmental and social goals. As a result, their social goals are embedded in their objective, which differentiates them from other organisations and companies. A social enterprise's main purpose is to promote, encourage, and make social change.J., Lane, Marc (2011). ''Social enterprise : empoweri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]