News & Insights
Diabetes Care Management Transformed by District Nursing Team in Great Wyrley
After introducing Flo to support their diabetic caseload, the team have renewed a patient’s confidence in managing her diabetes giving the patient freedom to get on with her life. Since September 2014, the patient had been receiving twice-daily visits and phone calls from the district nurse and diabetic team until
Diabetes: Previously disengaged patient successfully reduces HbA1c from 13.5% to 6.9% with Flo – great results
The patient was a 68 year old man with type 2 diabetes. He was disengaged with his health; he didn’t really want to attend appointments, or discuss his condition in general. The patient was also not taking his medicine, so initially he was set up on Florence to receive medication
Heart Failure: Bossy Flossie! Florence becomes a friend to a heart failure patient
Earlier this year, after a period of deteriorating health, much to her surprise, Agnes was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and advanced heart failure. After a period of treatment on the mainland she returned home and is now under the supervision of the Heart Failure team in Stornoway. This is her story………..
Hypertension: PLOS Medicine Journal: Integrating Florence into Clinical Workflow at Scale – Uncontrolled Hypertension
Telemonitoring at scale for hypertension in primary care: An implementation study Uncontrolled hypertension is the largest manageable cause of stroke and myocardial infarction. Despite the effectiveness of anti-hypertensive medication, many patients still have uncontrolled blood pressure (BP). Having previously demonstrated that Florence encourages medication use and is effective at lowering BP in this
Home and Mobile Health Monitoring Evaluation – Economic case studies
We are delighted to announce another exciting publication, “HMHM Economic Case Studies 2019” by Digital Health & Care Scotland, who have previously published their National 3-year evaluation “Towards Scaling Up Home and Mobile Health Monitoring 2015-2018”. This report provides us with a detailed analysis of the considerable cost savings across
Inspiring – Scotland’s Scale-Up team scoop 3 top awards with Florence
The 3 awards are: Digital Health and Care Fest 2019 UK General Practice Award Scottish Public Service Award Digital Health and Care Fest 2019 Scotland’s largest health and social care conference ‘Digital Health and Care Fest’ was held on 20th and 21st November 2019 at the University of Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre in
Blood Glucose control allowed surgery to go ahead as planned
The patient was a 53 year old with type 2 diabetes, who was found to have a tumor in their bladder. Surgery was scheduled for 29th August 2017 to remove the tumor, and the patient began to take insulin. As the patient was going in for surgery, it was key
Health and Social Care (HSC) Northern Ireland successfully introduces Florence to support their staff – great to see over 1900 participants
“We want to enable staff to make healthier choices”
Collette Brolly (Joint Lead Obesity Prevention at the PHA)
795 Clinical hours released by monitoring enteral feeding and blood pressure with Flo
Shropshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust Kate Perkins Shropshire Children’s Community Nursing Team See how clinical hours were released using Florence Children’s Enteral Feeding and Blood Pressure Monitoring – Children’s Community Nursing Team “Flo has enabled some of our patients to become more autonomous in their own care, with some teenagers even taking the
COPD patient avoids ambulance call out and acute admissions through self-management with Flo
Blythe Bridge Surgery – Tean and Blythe Bridge Primary Care Ann Hughes – Practice Nurse Flo Helps COPD Patient with a High Frequency of Acute Admissions to Self-Manage and Stay Well Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) describes a number of conditions including emphysema and chronic bronchitis. It is a condition
Weight management: Patients successfully show demonstrable behavioral changes with Florence
Weight Management Laura Bell , Dietetic Assistant Practitioner Laura has led on the pilot of Florence in the weight loss maintenance stage of the Lothian program and uses Flo to improve patient commitment and adherence to weight management programs. “I was about to get something from the fridge and a text
Collection of 10 Nellie patient stories
The Florence Community of Practice is a unique environment harnessing clinical innovation to rapidly expedite the adoption of safe, innovative digital healthcare. Over the past 10 years through the passion and commitment of Community of Practice members, a robust foundation of independent evidence has organically grown. This wide ranging evidence
