Enabling Technology, Empowering People
18/04/16
A Companion for Care: Using technology (Ripple) enable care providers act with confidence and care receivers to feel protected.
Care services are being asked to provide ever higher standards of care with ever decreasing budgets. We think Ripple nbsp;can help. We believe that an empathetic use of technology can enable carers to act, and perform their jobs with confidence knowing all the answers they need are always in their pocket.
We are very excited by our conversations with Clinical and Care Quality commissioning agencies, carers and car users about what we could be doing in the Care services sector in the UK.
Technology plays an increasingly large role in society and in health and social care. New technologies and uses of technology are also raising important questions about the formation of identities and the relationships between people, society and technology.
We are looking at ways to use our narrative approach and technology to inform and enhance, and raise, the standard of care across the board through simple and meaningful digital interventions and 24 hour accessible, curated information.
We want to use our system to create personalised, instantly update-able sets of information information which would be available and accessible 24 hours a day - demonstration videos, e-forms, direct calling for appointments\emergencies, video coaching\mentoring, procedure breakdowns, links with external services (Safe Places, VERA, etc.) and much, much more!
This 'Companion to Care' for staff, tenants and families within the care and the NHS services world, and anyone benefiting from supported living, aims to enhance the induction process and ensure that best practise is continued into the work environment through making important information accessible to staff when they need it most - delivered through smartphones, tablets and computers.
Creating service user confidence and supporting care workers is vital in the new integrated world of services and complex communities.
As narrative medicine has shown, more personalised care benefits both the doctors, carers, the patients and their care. We have developed tools that encourage highly personalised care experiences where both providersand receivers of care feel like they are being properly supported, encouraged and thought about.