News & Insights
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Redefining Patient Engagement Through Consumer Insights
November 27th, 2023
In this article uMed’s CEO Matt Wilson discusses the untapped potential of harnessing data-led insights to drive personalized, meaningful consumer experiences within the healthcare sector. He examines how tailored communication and bespoke engagement throughout a patient’s healthcare journey has the potential to enhance health outcomes and reduce provider costs. And how it’s the key to…
Why Technology is Key to Unlocking Clinical Trial Access in Underserved Communities
November 7th, 2023
A great article from our CEO Matt Wilson featured in The Journal of mHealth on the use of technology to address the challenges of access to clinical trial participation in underserved communities. The article emphasizes the need to support smaller, local healthcare providers that serve as a gateway to underrepresented, less wealthy communities, to build…
uMed Partners with The Michael J. Fox Foundation
September 20th, 2023
uMed Partners with The Michael J. Fox Foundation to Support Wide-scale Study Exploring Link Between Smell Loss and Parkinson’s uMed partners with The Michael J. Fox Foundation to run its smell test study in the UK as part of a global programme to explore the link between smell loss and Parkinson’s disease uMed will enroll…
Our Future Health partners with uMed
September 8th, 2023
Our Future Health partners with uMed to facilitate recruitment of volunteers across the South of the UK uMed is delighted to announce it is now engaging volunteers for Our Future Health, the UK’s largest health research programme, designed to enable the discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection and treatment of…
uMed raises £9.8m to boost participation in clinical trials, expanding to N.America
July 5th, 2023
Late-stage industry clinical research in the UK fell by 41% between 2017 and 2021, which is putting future patient care at risk The healthtech’s latest round of funding will directly combat this problem by accelerating research and care support for targeted patient groups through its landmark cohort programmes The successful raise will also be used…
Patient Story: Kevin Quinn
April 6th, 2023
In 2022, Kevin Quinn from Liverpool joined a uMed supported study of patients with chronic respiratory conditions. The study evaluated the effectiveness of a respiratory monitor that measures CO2 levels in tidal breathing of participants. The aim of the research was to help advance the development of point-of-care diagnostic technologies that monitor and manage cardiorespiratory…
MCI Onehealth Partners with uMed to Accelerate Clinical Research
March 10th, 2023
Partnership introduces unique patient recruitment and engagement platform to Canada TORONTO, March 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MCI Onehealth Technologies Inc. (“MCI”) (TSX: DRDR), a clinician-led healthcare technology company focused on increasing access to and quality of healthcare, and uMed, the UK-based provider of a leading automated patient-recruitment platform, are pleased to announce a partnership…
First of its kind patient cohort program announced at IPF-Summit
August 29th, 2022
NEW YORK, August 29, 2022 — A first-of-its-kind patient cohort platform will soon be available to UK and US researchers struggling to recruit patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD), such as pulmonary fibrosis and progressing fibrosis resulting from COVID-19. UK-based company uMed announced the launch of the Access-ILD/PF Cohort at the sixth annual Idiopathic Pulmonary…
Finding the Right Patients for Primary Care Clinical Studies
October 5th, 2021
An article published in the Journal of Clinical Studies describing the benefits of uMed in clinical trial recruitment
Automated recruitment platform accelerates patients into clinical studies
September 9th, 2021
An automated patient recruitment platform (ARP) could help researchers recruit patients significantly faster into clinical studies across diverse disease areas, helping researchers identify new treatments for diseases more quickly, tech platform creator uMed says.