Huma (previously known as Medopad) is a British healthcare technology company based in

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, UK. It produces

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that integrate health data from existing hospital databases as well as patient wearables and other mobile devices and securely transmits it for use by doctors.

Company

In April 2020, Medopad (as it was previously known) rebranded as Huma after acquiring BioBeats and Tarilian Laser Technologies, both British healthtech companies. The company's focus shifted from remote monitoring of patients with rare and chronic diseases towards gathering biological data for use in preventative healthcare. The company also announced that it had appointed

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as its first chairperson.

Products

Enterprise

Medopad allows hospitals to pool their patient data into a single platform so it can be served to doctors' mobile devices in real-time. Healthcare professionals can securely access lab results, images, clinical notes, and

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data via

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s and other mobile devices. In November 2013, Medopad became the first enterprise-class mobile health information system to receive CE approval. Some of the clinical applications that Medopad include editing patient records by voice recognition or typing, scheduling, lab results, image viewing including

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s and

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, electronic support documents, taking and sending photos, video conferencing, primary records, transmitting real-time vital signs, collecting and managing demographic and contact details,

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HealthKit integration, and arbitrage system to sort and prioritise patients, hospital admission, and access to more third party applications integrated into Medopad through the Clinical App Store. Medopad's pricing structure takes the form of an annual

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license fee in the UK. In June 2014, it was reported that Medopad would cost hospitals between £50 and £90 per month per user to license. Carl Reynolds, head of Open Health Care UK told ''New Scientist'' that an open system that worked on multiple devices would be preferential to Medopad, as it would avoid locking hospitals into a single system. In January 2018, Medopad joined UK Prime Minister

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on her trade mission to China meeting

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. During the trip it announced over £100m of commercial contracts with major Chinese and international organisations including

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and

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Cancer

In April 2015, Medopad launched a chemotherapy application for monitoring cancer patients designed specifically for the

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Investors

Some of Medopad's institutional investors are Healthbox and Sandbox Industries. Lord Howard Flight and Tony Brown, Non-Executive Director of the

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both invested individually, as did entrepreneur and investor

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References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.huma.com/ Big data companies Software companies based in London Medical technology companies of the United Kingdom Electronic health record software companies