Open Our Health

A solution to serve the many, not the few

  • Open access to download the app publicly without a clinical referral
  • Open access to a range of tools to support various aspects of your health & wellbeing
  • Open access to local clinical services and peer support groups
  • Open and transparent usage of your data, with control over what is shared
  • Open communication with family, colleagues, clinicians, researchers

The power to help demystify underserved conditions like Long Covid, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia, raise awareness and make a stronger case to health authorities and the government to invest more into clinical services and research.

ELAROS

Together with our advisory board, we ELAROS, a digital healthcare company,  are developing Open-OH to help meet the needs of thousands of people with Long Covid, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and other undiagnosed persistent conditions and different stages of their journey who are unable to access routine clinical support in the U.K. and worldwide.

ELAROS has 10+ years experience in digital health and have spent the last 4 years supporting over 60 NHS organisations’ clinical services and in global research studies with an award-winning platform co-developed with University of Leeds for the NHS.

Join us on our mission to bridge the gap, increase equity of access and deliver quality healthcare and wellbeing to people at home.

Co-created by a community of patients, public and clinicians

As part of the early app development process, we are inviting patients with a range of long-term conditions (listed below) and healthcare professionals working in the field to contribute to our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) outreach:

  • Long Covid / Post Covid-19 Syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Myalgic encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
  • Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) 
  • Post-viral illness

 

This process helps to keep the functionality, design and features of the app as close to the needs of the users as possible. By participating, anyone can help to make a difference to others who are also living with a long-term condition.

Participation could be anything from giving feedback on app designs and new features, joining group workshops, and testing the early versions of the mobile app.

Join the early adopters today

Open-OH has been supported by a range of organisations

Funded through a range a projects from Small Business Research Initiative Healthcare and Sheffield Hallam Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre with a range of partners including NHS England, University of Exeter, University of Leeds, Cordell Health, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, the Department of Health & Social Care and Department for Work & Pensions. 

Meet our Advisory Board

Our Scientific Advisory Board includes leading clinical experts and patient representatives 

Prof. Helen Dawes

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Professor Helen Dawes
University of Exeter

Helen Dawes is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation in the College of Medicine and Health. She is themelead for rehabilitation in the NIHR Exeter BRC and co-director of health technologies at Exeter network and business engagement and innovation. 

Helen is a clinical academic physiotherapist working in multidisciplinary research across ages, conditions, and health and care settings. Her research focus is on rehabilitation innovations to enable people living with conditions affecting their movement to be able to move well. She collaborates with key colleagues in the UK across the NHS and Universities, and internationally with Shanghai Jiao Tong Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Sao Paulo, Drexel, Aarhus, Monash, and Oslo Universities. Her research involves working closely, with industry, clinicians, and the public, to develop, evaluate and translate to clinical practice transformative innovation.  

Jeremy Gee

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Jeremy Gee
Community Advanced Practitioner | Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Jeremy qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2009 working rotationally across a wide variety of key areas within Airedale NHS Foundation Trust before focussing mainly on rehabilitation of older adults both in inpatient and community settings. After completing a Masters in Advanced Practice at the University of Leeds in 2019 Jeremy has expanded his holistic management of people within the community setting.

The Covid-19 pandemic has raised significant challenges and the need for a co-ordinated rehabilitation response. With a strong interest in rehabilitation, multi-disciplinary working and a passion for holistic care, working towards a whole system approach to Covid-19 has been a natural progression from Jeremy’s experience so far.

Prof. Manoj Sivan

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Prof. Manoj Sivan
WHO, University of Leeds and Leeds NHS Trusts

Professor Manoj Sivan MD FRCP (Ed) is an Associate Clinical Professor and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine (RM) with University of Leeds and Leeds NHS Trusts. He led UK’s first study on Covid-19 long term symptoms (long Covid) published in July 2020 that led to the setting up of UK’s first Long Covid service in Leeds in Sept 2020. He also led the development of the C19-YRS (Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale), a NHS England and NICE recommended tool for assessment and monitoring of the condition. His current research interests are developing rehabilitation interventions for Long Covid symptoms and outcome measurement of the condition.

His previous research on home-based rehabilitation robots has won several awards including the European Academy of RM prize and the UK Philips Nichols prize. His research has received grants from NIHR, MRC, EPSRC, ISRT, Research England and RCP.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation Medicine. He is also the President-Elect for the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (BSRM).

Manoj has been instrumental in advising on the development of the digital C19-YRS platform and supporting it’s roll-out, and will continue to bring his expertise and experience into this project.

Dr Nikki Cordell

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Dr Nikki Cordell
Cordell Health

Nikki is an accredited specialist in Occupational Medicine, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FFOM), with over 15 years experience in delivering occupational health services, first within the military and subsequently in the private and third sector. She has a keen interest in medical education and having gained an MSc in Medical Education from the University of Cardiff, she has been very involved in the professional development of clinicians providing specialist occupational health services.

She is currently undertaking a PhD working with Professor Helen Dawes, in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. Her research is focused on the factors influencing the ability to work for employees with a long-term health problem or disability. Other research interests include evidence in supporting those with a disability in employment, the role of employees’ health and wellbeing in organisational performance, and evidence-based assessment of fitness for work.

Nikki has worked in the military developing regionally based multi-disciplinary occupational health services. She is dedicated to raising the standards in occupational health provision and believes in a multifaceted service, focused on prevention and early intervention is the future. 

As CEO of Cordell Health, she has overall responsibility for strategy, business performance and organisation of service delivery. I lead on providing management consultancy advice to organisations which includes assessing the requirement, clinical specification, procurement and assurance of occupational healthcare services.  She also supports the Medical Director with complex case management referrals.

“Being a social enterprise is very important to me, I want us to make a positive difference in the workplace and my vision is to change the focus from disability to ability.

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