MyOpNotes Secures Innovate UK Funding to Revolutionise Surgical Documentation in Leeds
[Leeds, UK – 15 April 2024] – In a significant advancement for digital health technology, MyOpNotes, along with Leeds Innovation Pop-up, Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber, and the NHS InSites Programme, is delighted to announce the award of Innovate UK grant funding. This is to contribute to West Yorkshire’s ambition for innovation in health technologies in line with the Levelling Up agenda. The MyOpNotes platform is set to streamline the workload of surgeons, enhance patient care, and ensure accurate financial remuneration for hospitals by automating clinical coding.
This MedTech start-up, MyOpNotes, is poised to revolutionise surgical documentation for hospitals. It achieves this through capturing precise data from surgeons, and an automated system subsequently accurately assigns clinical codes, crucial for NHS reimbursement processes.
As a member of the Propel@YH digital accelerator programme and in partnership with Leeds Innovation Pop-up, MyOpNotes has been selected for its potential to transform healthcare within the West Yorkshire innovation cluster. The collaboration ensures that this technology will be effectively integrated into the NHS, bolstering patient outcomes, and enhancing hospital efficiency.
Selected from over 70 other competitors, MyOpNotes is among eight to be honoured with this prestigious grant, signifying its promising role in the future of healthcare documentation.
About MyOpNotes:
A health tech start-up founded in the UK, MyOpNotes was created by a team comprising surgeons, web developers, clinical coders, and experts in regulation and commerce. The start-up is driven by the vision to liberate surgeons from paperwork and harness the power of precise data for the betterment of patient care and the NHS.
About Leeds Innovation Pop-up:
At the heart of innovation, the Innovation Pop-up was launched in 2021. It is key to creating new Innovation for Leeds through Building the Leeds Way. The Pop-up has won awards such as the Excellence in Healthcare Science Awards 2022 and engaged with over 150 companies, including identifying 32 potential opportunities for collaboration.
About Propel:
Propel@YH is the UK’s leading digital health accelerator for innovative healthcare start-ups, offering support and guidance to fuel company growth and market expansion. It is delivered in collaboration with partners who bring expertise across commercialisation, marketing, evaluation, legal, funding, and much more. In its fifth year now, Propel@YH has supported over 50 UK innovators and 54 international innovators, supporting 115 additional jobs and £31M funding & investment raised.
About Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber:
Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber is one of 15 health innovation networks in England, created to operate as the key innovation arm of the NHS. Across the country health innovation networks act as a bridge between healthcare providers, commissioners, academia, and industry. By connecting these sectors, we help to build a pipeline of solutions for the NHS from research and product development through to implementation and commercialisation.
About NHS InSites Programme:
In 2022, NHS England commissioned NHS partners to form a system capacity building pilot programme – now known as the NHS InSites Programme.
The now 18 sites span across England and are working with the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and other NHS innovators to align processes, share intelligence on implementation, build capability within their sites and test/evaluate innovations to meet the needs of their populations. This testing and evaluation model was developed by Mid and South Essex ICS, who are acting as the coordination hub for the NHS InSites Programme. In its first year, InSites have set up 15 pilot projects reaching almost 500,000 patients ranging from AI supported prevention of non-attendances in outpatients to programmes preventing anxiety around hospital admissions.
For further information, please contact:
Dr Grant Nolan
Co-Founder, Surgeon, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur & HEE Topol Digital Fellow
