Medvivo
Medvivo is a provider of telehealth and related services based in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England and owned by the Eight Roads venture capital fund.[1]
The company was founded in 2004 as Wiltshire Medical Services, in response to a change to the contract to run GP out-of-hours services for North Wiltshire Primary Care Group. Its name changed to Medvivo in 2013[2] after it was acquired by Moonray Investors, an arm of Fidelity Ventures, which became Eight Roads in 2015. [citation needed]
The company acquired Medvivo Careline Limited, an alarm monitoring service formerly known as Magna Careline, in 2014 from the Magna Housing Group. In the same year the company was said to be one the major UK players in the telehealth market.[3] It is part of the Argenti telehealthcare partnership[4] which has a contract with Hampshire County Council for technology-based care.[5] It is a member of the Innovation Council of the New Engineering Foundation.[6]
The company still runs the out-of-hours service for Wiltshire.[7] It also runs an advice telephone line for health and social workers in Wiltshire[8] and Bexley’s emergency link line.[9] Its service in Surrey is claimed to be the largest telehealth deployment in the country.[10]
Medvivo was involved, with other agencies, in the response to concerns over a human trafficking operation at a travellers' site near Semington, Wiltshire, in April 2015.[11]
From 2016, the company partnered with Care South to provide respite and reablement support for people in their own homes in Dorset, for which Medvivo provides a technology package and daily reassurance phone calls.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Principal Investments". eightroads.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "Medvivo Group Limited - Company Information". Endole. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ "Telehealth Market Worth $6.5 Billion by 2020". PR Newswire. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Healthcare and wearable technology: monitoring the connected body". E & T. 20 April 2015. Archived from the original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Hampshire to double telecare investment". Government Computing. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Havering College's STEM manifesto paves the way for innovation hub". Sourcewire. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Out-of-hours GP service holds consultation day". Salisbury Journal. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ "Advice line adds up to Wiltshire health saving". This is Wiltshire. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Bexley residents with emergency link lines affected after phone line vandalism in Ealing". News Shopper. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Telehealth deal agreed by Surrey CCGs". Health Service Journal. 23 August 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Semington human trafficking suspects arrested". BBC News. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ Hindley, Meghan (14 December 2016). "Medvivo Careline and Care South team up to offer new service for vulnerable people". Dorset Echo. Retrieved 18 November 2022.