Empowering patients.
Ensuring better self-care.
Reducing NHS workload & costs.
A start-up developing Multi-Award Winning Personalised Apps.
We save lives by transforming patient informatics.
The Velma Story
The Problem
25,000 die each year from deep vein thrombosis in the UK. 2/3rd of these are preventable with simple measures.
The Solution
Professor Simon Toh, along with Miles Toh (Biomedical Electronic Engineer undergraduate) and Christopher Toh (Electronic and Electrical Engineer (Computer Systems) BSc), founded Velma in 2017 to save as many of these lives as possible by conveying information on DVT in a better to patients, after hospital discharge.
The original concept was to produce high-quality engaging video-animations with nudge methodology, linking these to a reminder leaflet that patients could stick to their fridge, in their homes.
The Company
This multi-award winning concept has led to a proposed start-up B-2-B Social Enterprise, Velma Healthcare, to develop reminder Apps for the NHS and private sector.
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Velma Healthcare is supported by the Ingenuity Impact Awards 2021, the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme 2021-22 and the Academic Health Science Network Health Innovation Programme 2023.
Taking our award-winning life-saving concept into an App on patient's smartphones to educate them of symptoms and risks of Deep Vein Thrombosis, and giving bespoke daily reminders on how to prevent this after hospital admission for acute illness (including COVID) and surgery.
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IN DEVELOPMENT:
App support aimed at helping children to manage Type 1 diabetes better using gamification and animations
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The VELMA DVT Care App
Who Are We?
We are a passionate expert health, multi-media and IT team dedicated to producing
engaging healthcare information to improve patient care and save lives.
Filming of the award-winning patient information videos.
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Designed to educate on the safe injection of heparin, and correct way to wear TED stockings.
MULTI AWARD-WINNING CONCEPT
We have won multiple awards for this concept:
1. Patient Safety-Up Award 2016 (Fareham & Gosport CCG)
2. UK Anticoagulation Achievement Award for Best Work for the Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis 2017 (collecting this award at Westminster above)
3. Ingenuity Impact Awards 2021
We participated in the Ingenuity Impact Programme 2021 (University of Nottingham) and our business plan and pitch landed us a place in the national finals, where we won 3 awards:
1. South Coast Champion first place prize
2. Joint prize for the Health Challenge National Champion
3. Regional Legal Prize from Shakespeare Martineau.
For more information on our awards and company, go to: https://ingenuityimpact.org/velma/
We were accepted and supported by:
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme 2021-2022
See: https://nhscep.com/2022/06/23/our-entrepreneurs-simon-toh/
and the Wessex AHSN Health Innovation Programme 2023.
We have received mentorship from Meta for our App development, and for business development with Lars Hagelmann from Big Issue, and have legal advice from Shakespeare Martineau.
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Recent News:
Velma participated in the Future Worlds Cohort 24 Bootcamp, and co-founders Miles & Christopher spent two days in the University of Southampton Dec 1-2 2023 testing and growing VELMA alongside other start-up companies.
https://futureworlds.com/cohort-2024/
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Upcoming News:
Please visit our stand at the PETRAS Summit: We are Connected - Are we Protected? 21st February 2024, County Hall, London SE1 7PB. A summit that explores ideas of prioritising the human experience, privacy and security in a digitally connected world.
Professor Toh has been invited to give the keynote speech on 'Citizens Rights and Cybersecurity of Wearable Technology'.
https://petras-iot.org/update/we-are-connected-are-we-protected/
Our Mission
Every year 25,000 people die from Deep Vein Thrombosis in the UK alone. With simple measures, 2/3 of these are preventable.
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The VELMA App will show patients how to do this at home, after discharge, and will also provide feedback and compliance data in a secure, seamless, and safe way, between the patient and care team.
CONTACT US
Contact us on: info@velmaonline.co.uk
Connect with Professor Toh through LinkedIn Here:
Connect with Christopher Toh through LinkedIn Here:
