Huge news! Nottinghamshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) is now live with CardMedic. We are beyond delighted to be working with the team at Nottinghamshire ICB to roll out the app across the county and narrow the gap on … Read More
reducing health inequalities
Collaborating to tackle health inequities at the Royal Society of Medicine
We’ve started the year with a bang! Our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Rachael Grimaldi went to the Royal Society of Medicine‘s #TacklingInequalities event last week, and it was inspiring to see a room filled with people who want to make a difference. She shared … Read More
Breaking down language barriers in healthcare: a conversation with CardMedic’s Clinical Content Lead
Around 1 in 10 people in the UK don’t speak English as their first language. Research by Healthwatch found that people who experience language barriers face problems at all points of their healthcare journey. Miscommunication between patients and healthcare workers … Read More
Bridging the communication divide and tackling health inequality
Effective communication plays a crucial role in delivering modern healthcare. In this interview with CardMedic’s CEO Dr Rachael Grimaldi, she discusses how tech can be used to improves aces to care for all patients. … Read More
CardMedic set to improve experiences of maternity services across Suffolk and north east Essex
Maternity services across Suffolk and north east Essex have gone live with CardMedic, the award-winning healthcare communications app.
The app has been deployed to improve experiences for those using maternity services and support the ambitions of the area to fulfil NHS England’s Core20PLUS5 framework.
The CardMedic app went live across the region’s maternity services in November 2022. It is being used widely by multidisciplinary teams, including midwives, obstetricians and other clinical staff, as well as administrative teams at all three hospital sites; West Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich Hospital and Colchester Hospital. … Read More
How entrepreneurship in the NHS is helping to narrow healthcare inequalities
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme has played a really big part in CardMedic’s success, with myself being fortunate enough to be a fellow on the programme. We were honoured to be featured in the programme’s latest health inequalities case study, … Read More
CardMedic joins prestigious NHS Innovation Accelerator programme
We couldn’t be more excited to share that CardMedic has been selected to join NHS England‘s NHS Innovation Accelerator programme for the 2023 cohort! The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) programme is designed to accelerate uptake of innovations like ours by the NHS, so … Read More
CardMedic named by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies in the world
It’s difficult to imagine being more excited than we are right now! Fast Company has named CardMedic one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. In our short history, we’ve been incredibly proud of the progress we have made towards making … Read More
CardMedic wins Best Solution for Patients at the Health Tech News Awards!Â
We are absolutely thrilled to have picked up the Health Tech News Best Digital Solution for Patients award last week! Once again, we thank Jason Bincalar and all the other judges and another huge congratulations to all the other winners, … Read More
CardMedic wins first Integrated Care System contract
We are over the moon! Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System is live with CardMedic across the organisation, supporting it’s mission to address communication barriers and reduce health inequalities.
When we spoke to Sarah Haines, Head of Patient Experience and Engagement at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, she said she was really looking forward to seeing the app being used with children living with disabilities, making use of the EasyRead, Read Aloud, and image formats. It’s so rewarding for us to see our customers finding new use cases for the app, inspiring us to keep making it more personalised, so it can help as many people as possible. … Read More
