Patients Know Best is a British

social enterprise A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being. This may include maximizing social impact alongside profits for co-owners. Social enterprises ha ...

, with an aim of putting patients in control of their own medical records. In the UK, Patients Know Best integrates into the

NHS app The NHS App allows patients using the National Health Service in England to book appointments with their GP, order repeat prescriptions and access their GP record. The app can also be used to access NHS 111, set patients' data sharing preferences ...

and in the Netherlands, it integrates with the government's personal health records infrastructur
persoonlijke gezondheidsomgeving (PGO)
Its Chairman is Dr

Richard Smith (editor) Richard Smith CBE FMedSci is a British medical doctor, editor, and businessman. He is the director of the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative at Emory University (which grew out of the UnitedHealth “Ovations initiative”), which toget ...

. Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli is the founder and chief executive officer. The system is the preferred personal health record for London. It is in use in 22 different languages at more than 60 hospitals throughout the UK, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, the US and the Netherlands. After trials conducted by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board it is to be rolled out across Wales in 2017. In July 2019 it formed a partnership with

HealthUnlocked HealthUnlocked is a social networking service for health. The company uses health-specific artificial intelligence to support patients to better manage their own health, by recommending relevant and tailored health content, information and servi ...

, integrating their eSocial Prescription capability to enable more holistic, personalised care plans.

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