REFER A NEW MEDILINK
MEMBER AND WE’LL
DONATE TO CHARITY!
Here at Medilink Yorkshire
& Humber we are dedicated
to growing the Healthcare
Technology sector and
transforming healthcare.
To help achieve this we are
introducing the ‘Medilink
Membership Referral Scheme’.
For any existing Medilink member
that successfully refers a new
member to the Medilink family, as a
thank you we will donate 25% of your
membership fee to charity, or give
you a 25% discount off next year’s
membership.
To learn more about how referring
new members can help support good
causes please visit our website at
www.medilink.co.uk/membership
or contact Rachel Brown, Medilink
Senior Membership Co-ordinator, on
[email protected]
or 0114 2329293
NEWS
KATE ALLATT SPEAKS AT SHEFFIELD TED x
In addition to her recent highly
successful role as host and after
dinner speaker at Medilink’s
North West Healthcare Business
Awards 2016, renowned public
speaker, author and new
Medilink member Kate Allatt
has enjoyed further public highprofile engagements.
In 2011 Kate was crowned
Extraordinary Woman of the
Year after making a remarkable
recovery from locked-in
syndrome. After suffering a
stroke Kate, who had been a
prolific fell runner, found herself
cognitively sound but she no
longer had the ability to move any
part of her body, an experience
which she now draws upon when
public speaking.
Recent such engagements have
seen Kate present at the 47th
Annual Lecture for Designability
at the University of Bath, where she
discussed themes including selfmanagement, patient engagement
and dignity. In addition Kate was
also selected as a TEDx speaker
at their first event held at Sheffield
Hallam University.
www.kateallatt.com
@KateAllatt
See Kate’s TEDx talk at
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=SptlyNYjtIU
SPIROMETRY GOES VERTICAL WITH SPIROCONNECT
Sheffield-based Numed
Healthcare has launched a
new turbine spirometer SpiroConnect.
SLEEPCOGNI - THE WORLD’S
FIRST CBT-BASED SLEEP DEVICE
Sleep is an often overlooked
cornerstone of health and wellness, and
the technology being worked on by new
Medilink member SleepCogni aims to
combat this.
SleepCogni is the world’s first Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based sleep
device that winds the user down to a
sleep ready state using and engaging
a bedside system of audio, visual and
tactile stimuli that helps the user to
switch off. This is the first product to
combine these stimuli and physiological
measures such as heart rate and body
activity as a treatment for insomnia.
Clinical studies supported by Sheffield
Hallam University confirmed that
SleepCogni is effective in treating
patients with insomnia showing a 50%
improvement in sleep quality and 40%
improvement in sleep quantity.
www.sleepcogni.com
L @SleepCogni
A spirometer measures the
volume of air inspired and expired
by the lungs. The new, innovative
SpiroConnect device features
enhancements that make it more
accurate and easier to use than
any other turbine spirometer.
By orientating the SpiroConnect
turbine vertically, rather than
horizontally, it has less rotational
resistance and is therefore more
sensitive to low flow rates. This, in
addition to the use of an advanced
antistatic plastic, significantly
enhances measurement accuracy,
particularly when testing Chronic
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
and Asthma patients.
SpiroConnect is fully integrated
with the EMIS, TPP SystmOne and
InPS Vision GP clinical systems
through Numed’s Intelligent
Integration Interface (I3)
software. Up to 40 user selectable
spirometry read codes and a PDF
spirometry test report are filed to
the clinical system in seconds at
the end of the test. This makes it
perfect for the busy GP surgery.
SpiroConnect will save
considerable amounts of nursing
and administration time and
more importantly, ensure the
highest levels of patient safety by
filing spirometry results to the
correct patient’s medical record,
every time.
To find out more about
SpiroConnect visit:
www.numed.co.uk
L @NumedHealthcare
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