iPLATO Healthcare announced its GP service for Smartphones - iPLATO mSite - is now available to all its NHS partners across the United Kingdom. Due to the widespread availably of Smartphones many of iPLATO's NHS partners have embraced this new channel for patient engagement.
iPLATO mSite is a free of charge module for iPLATO Patient Care Messaging Pro users that allows surgeries to quickly create and manage content on their own mobile internet site. Smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry and others currently account for more than 30% of all mobile phones in use in the UK. This percentage is rising rapidly.
Optimised for Smartphone access, iPLATO mSite has been designed to improve patient access to healthcare services and provides information that enables self-service.
"When designing iPLATO mSite" Tobias Alpsten, Managing Director of iPLATO Healthcare said "we tried to answer frequent questions that patients have when they call the surgery switchboard. This includes names of practitioners, opening hours, contact details, maps and how to get to the surgery by foot, car or public transport and information on how to access out of hours services.
"We believe that patients in 2011 expect more than text messages from their surgery. Our developers have worked on this feature for almost three years. It has been trialled with 30 surgeries over the last year to ensure that it is stable, safe and easy to use. After these extensive preparations I hope that our primary care partners will use iPLATO mSite to expand their mHealth services to patients."
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iPLATO Healthcare is an innovation company dedicated to mobile health since 2006. iPLATO's evidence based mobile health solutions have proven to improve patient access to healthcare, to enable powerful health promotion targeted at people at risk and to support people with long term conditions.
Serving millions of patients and thousands of healthcare professionals every day iPLATO has emerged as the leader in mobile health. Across this network the company is running campaigns to promote smoking cessation, weight loss, childhood immunisation and pandemic awareness as well as mobile patient support services for people with diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy, COPD and HIV.