MediDesk Ltd, a UK-based provider of IT systems for local doctors, has received funding worth nearly $10m from UK venture capitalists. MediDesk supplies desktops which give general practitioners (GPs) easy access to all the applications they use over Microsoft’s SQL Server and NT operating system, as well as a connection to the health service intranet.
The company said the funding will be used to develop systems for primary care groups, or small networks of GPs, enabling them to gather medical and demographic information about patients in an electronic format. The systems will make it far easier to identify anomalies in local health patterns without having to wade through thousands of individual case histories.
The UK government has earmarked over $1.5bn for modernizing the health service’s systems. Wakefield, Yorkshire-based MediDesk intends to take advantage of this cash to grow swiftly.
