KITE (Knowhow Ideas That Excite)

KITE focuses on developing bespoke healthcare innovation applications, using informatics. The group is formed of members from the Electronics and Computer Science department at the University of Southampton.

A number of initiatives and subsequent research has led to the KITE team developing a number of exciting products and services which are used within the clinical and healthcare environment. These include STAG, the Southampton tool for action on Glucose, UHS Revalid, an online clinical staff appraisal system and FollowApp, which aims to allow direct interaction with patients about their care within a Children’s hospital.

“Meeting the team at CIRU was invaluable. It gave me the opportunity to present a common clinical problem to a non-clinical team. Several meetings, emails and coffees later the ‘STAG’ concept was born!”

Dr Mayank Patel, Diabetes Consultant, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, England, UK