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By providing in-situ blood tests and health check-ups in a small mobile van, that would also serve raise awareness about health matters in the community. Equipment is point of care testing.
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The current technology or point-of-care testing (POCT) makes it easily available to the masses to do in vivo investigation for blood and urine. By making the POCT equipment available in gyms and fitness centres, pharmacies or even in a small van, it would encourage people to regularly do their health checks and reflect on the time-line of their physical health, mental health and life-style wellbeing. Knowing that that many physical and mental health conditions are associated with vitamin, mineral deficiencies. This way before major health condition arises and the need to seek medical or mental health consultation, we could be saving many people and the NHS unnecessary costs and GP visits. This service could be sponsored by health organisations during different World-Days to raise awarness and reach out to the masses in local communities. So health check-ups and blood tests become not only for sick people but for all, all age groups and communities.
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Why it's a great idea:
Health check-ups is readily available for suspected health conditions, however, it is usually inconvenient process for patients seeking blood tests in the NHS facilities. Plus the blood test results if it shows deficiencies of any sort except cancer, are not followed up. There are two main objectives from regular health check-ups: 1- Cultural change towards preventative proactive health care instead of reactive healthcare. To do regular health check ups, with advanced technology, treatments early diagnosis of any arising ailment would have less of impact on an individual life if the appropriate adjustment in diet, life-style are advised earlier. This will also impact on the healthcare system to reduce costs of healthcare if a major health condition that could become chronic condition with complications. 2- Monitoring of identified high-risk individuals through regular health check ups would also incentivise individuals to adjust their life-style and adhere to medication.
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I believe that healthy bodies and minds lead to healthy community relations and economies. Only healthy enough bodies and minds can seek education, knowledge is power which opens better employment opportunities. Data generated from health check-ups could help our research communities too if made anonymised securely available. To advance our knowledge and clinical intervention.
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VolunteerCame from a family with medical background gave me the opportunity to see, hear and observe patients pain, recovery, and gratitude to honest knowledgeable medical advice.
This must have planted the seed to help as many people as possible.
I studied medicine in Baghdad but these were embargo years Iraq was going through, the economic sanctions impacted on the resources available for medics and healthcare professionals to help patients. During one of my visits to England I was intrigued by the vision shared by a Bioinformatician at newtworking event, of how technology would transform medicine and healthcare in general, to diagnose earlier, provide personalised care and medication.
This insight was a seed of hope and ambition to learn new knowledge and be able to help more patients not only in Iraq but anywhere technology can be deployed. Besides clinical training, technology orientation, management is not taught to medical students to be able to manage resources, hence my decision to study MBA-health executive at Keele University.
Practice complement knowledge, to lead or be influential you ought to practice in a relevant environment to build expertise, teamwork, and leadership skills. In addition to building these credentials, networking can bring opportunities that suit your vision.
My MBA dissertation project was based on evaluating the roll-out of clinical decision support system while working for Public Health England in Sheffield which later opened an opportunity for me to take up managerial role Operations Manager leading a team of adminstrative staff Band 2, 3 and 5.
This in summary, what brought to live a platform DocNoc.co.uk that I co-founded to enable medics to help more patients using digital health technology for better access to healthcare and longer lives.
Having set up the foundation of DocNoc platform, brand and potential stakeholders. Now it is time for new blood to take over my operational role in DocNoc and for me to set up a new venture of 'Mind The Lab'. I believe that with my MedTech start-up knowledge, experience and connections Mind-The-Lab project would be a success with the right backup of Spacehive.
Project Owner: Nur Alkhateeb The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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