WINNER: Modality Partnership and Healthy.io – Smartphone-enabled home albumin screening for people with diabetes

The national GP super-partnership Modality Partnership has demonstrated that the use of home albumin screening for people with diabetes is a cost-effective method of improving compliance with testing, with benefits to patients, staff and the NHS.

Selected patients were offered annual screening using Healthy.io’s smartphone urinalysis kit and app; the test results were then reviewed and patients followed up as required. The service was piloted in 12 GP practices in Hull and Yorkshire.

Seventy two per cent of patients who received a kit completed the test and elevated protein was found in 11 per cent of new cases (indicating previously unknown CKD).

Read a detailed case study on this project on HSJ Solutions.

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