Digital Health Passport – Digital Health Passport

Digital Health Passport

A Personal Health Record (PHR) app for children and young people with long term conditions

Currently invite only

Developed by:

Originally commissioned by:
Healthy London Partnership

Overview

The story behind the Digital Health Passport

A 1 minute overview of the Digital Health Passport

App Features

Onboarding & screening module

Personalisation and initial assessment

Health tracker

Health diary to track symptoms and well-being

Health & Emergency Action Plan

Approved care plans for asthma, allergy & other long term conditions to share with others

Health Hacks

Health & well-being educational videos & links

Air quality, pollution & weather alerts

Triggered by location services

Remote condition review

Health checks with clinically validated measures to help with remote clinic reviews

Training modules

Structured content around condition reinforced by quiz questions

Widely available

NHS App Library, Apple App Store, Google Play

Screenshots (v. 1)

Benefits

For users/ patients

Improves your skills, knowledge & confidence to self manage

All the information you need in one place

Connects you to your clinical team

Helps you to take control of your well-being

For clinicians

Facilitates knowledge transfer around condition management & medication use

Enhances quality & efficiency of consultations

Validated Behaviour Change

For commisioners

Moves from paper based action plans & records to digital

Reduces unplanned hospital attendance

Facilitates better population health management

Quality Assurance

NHS Login Secure log in

NHS Apps Library Assessed to be safe & secure

Interoperable e.g. with LHCR, EMIS, System1

HSSF & LPP's DPS Accredited Supplier

G-Cloud 12 Approved Supplier

ORCHA Health App Quality Mark

Cyber Essentials + Commitment to cyber security

ISO/IEC 27001 Externally audited by BSI

Clinical Safety DCB 0129, DCB 0160

User Testimonials

Portable

“As an asthmatic in the last two years I’ve been to A&E twice and if I’m having trouble breathing I can take my phone out and say look at this plan. That would be really handy. The name as a Digital Health Passport is exactly it - you can travel around with it and use it as and when you enter into a service.”

Saira DHP User

Good look and feel

“The look and feel is really good - not just a boring NHS App and the interactive background is especially good for younger users.”

Lucy DHP User

Simple to use

“I really liked it because it was simple to use.”

Jared DHP User

Helps independence and self-monitoring

“We are always trying to encourage Alice to look after her asthma herself and it helps her be independent…..really great as she has been discharged from hospital and the app helps her monitor her asthma and she lets us know how she is getting on.”

Susan, Alice's Mum DHP User

Knowing my asthma level

“Easy to log onto and good to know what level my asthma is at - knowing if I need to wear a coat or hat is really good.”

Alice DHP User

Information in one place

"Really useful when patients come back into clinic recording peak flow rather than paper is a real positive. The links are really good - one patient this morning had poor inhaler technique and having additional information that they access in one place is really useful."

Jane Asthma Nurse, St Bartholomew Hospital, London

Life saving

"This app is just brilliant and life saving."

Anne Marie Asthma Nurse, St Bartholomew Hospital, London

Case Studies

East London
Tiny Medical Apps (the company behind the Digital Health Passport) was commissioned by Healthy London Partnership to deliver a platform and app that would allow: deployment of digital care plans; remote condition monitoring; access to educational resources for young people with long term conditions; and have access to pollution, pollen and weather data. The initial focus was on asthma, and involved working with leading clinicians and young people across the capital to develop our ‘Minimum Lovable Product’. The DHP was initially launched in October 2019 at two sites in East London: Chrisp Street Surgery and the Royal London Hospitals with Barts Hospital following on in January 2020. An evaluation has been undertaken demonstrating evidence to Tier 2 on the NICE Evidence Standards Framework for Digital Health Tools and presented to clinicians and commissioners from across London. The ‘live co-design’ continues supporting Respiratory Nurses at the Royal London to provide a Digital Asthma Action Plan to patients preparing for discharge.
Greater Manchester
The Digital Health Passport team was approached by the Greater Manchester Strategic Clinical Network. This followed an extensive piece of research into the needs of children and young people in their area which identified an asthma care plan app as an important part of a strategy to reduce Emergency Department visits. The Greater Manchester project has received Evidence Generation funding from the Innovation & Technology Payment, an NHS England programme that supports the NHS to adopt innovations by removing some of the financial and procurement barriers to introducing new technologies, and is well supported by the regional leadership team and the local Academic and Health Science Network. The integration plan with the GM Local Health & Care Record (LHCR) is amongst the most advanced in the country and involves evaluating the use of PODs (Personally Owned Datastores). The focus for the project is to share asthma care plans between secondary and primary care, and once interoperability is established to do the same for epilepsy and diabetes.
Yorkshire & Humber
Sheffield Children’s Hospital in association with National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Children and Young People MedTech Cooperative have been awarded Evidence Generation funding from the Innovation & Technology Payment, an NHS England programme that supports the NHS to adopt innovations by removing some of the financial and procurement barriers to introducing new technologies, to integrate the Digital Health Passport with the Yorkshire & Humber Care Record, a Local Health Care Record Exemplar. This project focuses on allergy/anaphylaxis care plans and working with community clinics to reduce out patient appointments and urgent care demand.