HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to top doctors and their knowledge via video, text, or voice is expanding its digital health network to the UK. The new London-based company named HealthTap UK will features new apps and website specifically for British doctors and patients to supplement and complement the care already provided to citizens by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS).
HealthTap UK Network Overview
Users can access HealthTap UK through dedicated local apps and a special website. These apps and website leverage HealthTap’s proprietary medical ontology to customize the content of the world’s largest and most trusted library of doctor knowledge to people throughout England, Scotland, and Wales. HealthTap has updated its software and algorithms to enable health questions from people across the United Kingdom to receive prompt answers from top doctors.
Additionally, U.K.-licensed doctors are now invited to apply and join the HealthTap Medical Expert network, which currently spans more than 105,000 accredited doctors across 141 specialties. British doctors can now also benefit from access to the world’s first Health Operating System, HealthTap HOPES™, and deliver Virtual Care to their patients at their convenience from any mobile device or personal computer. HealthTap can now better serve its U.K. users with local best practices that address differences in culture and terminology between the United States and the United Kingdom.
“Having served more than 4.8 billion answers by U.S. doctors to users in 174 countries, we’re very excited to be able to bring the experience and expertise of top UK doctors to patients everywhere,” says Dr. Raj Goyal, a former NHS doctor and the newly appointed Director of HealthTap UK, LTD in a statement. “Starting today, patients everywhere in the United Kingdom can get answers from our network of top doctors, now fortified with U.K. licensed doctors in good standing with the General Medical Counsel. Via HOPES, our proprietary Health Operating System, our users in the United Kingdom will now have access to our extensive library of trusted doctor knowledge — localized to the UK, as well as to a secure personal health record, and a set of effective engagement tools including checklists and tips. Now UK residents can join millions everywhere managing their health and wellbeing, from query-to-cure.”
