HealthTracker Ltd
The HealthTracker™ platform is a web-based health monitoring system (www.healthtracker.co.uk) that was co-developed by Professor Paramala Santosh and Professor Paul Gringras within the NHS (Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust). This was spun out as HealthTracker Ltd, an SME, in 2012, with the NHS receiving royalties and part-owning the company. HealthTracker Ltd specializes in the development and implementation of scalable secure online cloud-based solutions for health monitoring. The platform contains multi-media questionnaires – patient-centered outcome measures (PCOMs) of symptoms, side-effects, quality of life, family burden, illness, and patient experience, reported by patients, parents, teachers and clinicians, and allows clinicians to view data for treatment decision making.
The HealthTracker™ platform has been used within the NHS and in multiple national and international research projects – it can provide web-based automated triaging for patients being referred to child and adolescent mental health services, help in patient risk stratification, assist in providing metrics used for commissioning, and can be used in clinical trials, research, and quality improvement programmes.
The HealthTracker™ platform has been used in Sheffield Children’s Hospital, the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, and in multiple research projects including EU FP7 funded projects, such as the STOP: Suicidality-Treatment-Occurring-in-Paediatrics http://www.stop-study.com/ (Santosh, 2014); the Managing-the-Link-and-Strengthening-Transition-from-Child-to-Adult-Mental-Health-Care (MILESTONE) project (www.milestone-transitionstudy.eu) (Toumenain et al, 2017); the Paediatric-UK-Demyelinating-Disease-Longitudinal-Study (PUDDLS); the NIHR-CLAHRC-SY initiative (http://clahrc-sy.nihr.ac.uk/); and in an NIHR PGfAR programme, Investigating-Autism-Mental-Health (IAMHealth) (Santosh et al, 2017). The STOP project with the HealthTrackerTM monitoring system has been recognized as an example of good practice by NICE.
