Epilepsy monitoring app leads the way for NHS70
EpSMon, developed by a team of partners including the University's Dr Craig Newman, has been chosen to celebrate digital innovation within healthcare
EpSMon, an app that helps people with epilepsy manage their condition, is one of six projects chosen by the NHS to celebrate digital innovation within healthcare.
Developed by a team of partners including Dr Craig Newman, from the Â鶹´«Ã½ and University Hospitals Â鶹´«Ã½ NHS Trust, the app is the subject of a short film on the .
The film, which was funded by NHS England and produced by the NHS Academic Health Science Networks, highlights two users’ perspectives on how it has changed their lives. The app is designed to help people monitor their epilepsy in between their visits to doctors.
EpSMon also contains guidance to help people better understand Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) and the factors which may affect their risk.
Dr Newman, Senior Research Fellow in the Â鶹´«Ã½ Institute of Health and Care Research, is an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and led the app’s development alongside charity SUDEP Action, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospital.
Dr Newman said:
“It’s great to see that the app is being widely utilised and given this platform within the NHS, because that’s the whole point of research and digital innovation – making a positive difference to those who need it most.
“The technology has already been adopted as part of the epilepsy commissioning toolkit for use by Clinical Commissioning Groups, and as a team we are so pleased with its success. SUDEP Action was instrumental in identifying a need for such an app, and to think that four years later it’s being used as an exemplar of digital innovation in the NHS is amazing.â€