About
Pogo Digital Healthcare is an award winning digital development agency that specialises in providing healthcare with innovative, intuitive technical solutions.
They create digital products which provide personalised medical information, symptom tracking and links to additional support for people living with long term conditions.
Their product Tailored Talks has been shown to:
- Empower people to self-manage their condition
- Reduce health concerns
- Be easy to use
- Have the potential to reduce pressure on medical teams
Tailored Talks is a web-based platform and app. which enables clinicians to share personalised and relevant information, in easy-to-digest slide presentations. Clinicians can create bespoke presentations for each patient, which can be shared as a slideshow, via email or via a printed PDF to expand accessibility to the product.
Tailored Talks also has a patient facing area called MyTailoredTalks, which is currently being used within an integrated care pathway from General Practitioners (GPs) to community support, to support people living with Long COVID.
“As a GP and someone living with Long Covid this new digital system will be hugely beneficial to patients and primary care. It’s a big breakthrough in integrated care. It gives patients direct access to support to help manage their condition.” Dr Amy Small, NHS Lothian
Key Facts
The key problems and how we solve them: Shared decision making: Significant research (including research conducted by Realistic Medicine) shows the challenges faced by clinicians in shared decision marketing with patients. These often occur due to the different levels of understanding between a medical professional and a patient, and because different people absorb information in different ways and at different times. Tailored Talks seeks to improve patient / clinician communication by addressing thise imbalance of understanding. Tailored Talks achieves this by enabling clinicians to choose the information that is relevant to the patient, in a format they will understand (via words with a max reading age of 10 years, pictures or film), and to share this at a time that works for the patient. Too much information that is not relevant, resulting in anxiety, stress and misunderstanding: The system eliminates the problem of generic leaflets on broad conditions, which are likely to contain information that is irrelevant to the patient; patients can be confident that all the information contained in a Tailored Talk is 100% relevant to them and specifically tailored to their needs. Patient’s struggling to explain their condition to loved ones or family members: The patient portal aspect of our platform enables patients to give loved ones access to their Tailored Talks, which means that they can also understand the condition and rehabilitation plans. Tailored Talks: Is being used across Scotland in ICU for patients leaving hospital after being treated for covid-19, for stroke and neurology, with over 465 clinicians registered for the system. It is also used within the third sector, for example Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS), a Scottish charity via their patient advice line. “What a wonderful resource – I feel so privileged to have been asked to help out with this work. It will be a fabulous help to people” Helen Bulbeck, brainstrust UK “I love it, I love the pictures and everything – I thought they were really clear and helpful” NHS Scotland Focus Group MyTailoredTalks: Is being piloted with 27 GP surgeries in NHS Lothian with over 100 patients now actively using the system and plans in place to extend the pathway to all GP surgeries in NHS Lothian in late 2022. “As a GP and someone living with Long Covid this new digital system will be hugely beneficial to patients and primary care. “It’s a big breakthrough in integrated care. It gives patients direct access to support to help manage their condition.” Dr Amy Small, NHS Lothian Tracey Gillies, Medical Director, NHS Lothian, said: “The Long COVID digital pathway developed by Pogo Digital Healthcare, NHS Lothian, and CHSS, is a great ex-ample of how the NHS, the third, and private sectors can work together to build a truly innovative solution to the challenges faced by people with long COVID.” Pogo Digital Healthcare won the Best Use of Technology in Healthcare at the Herald Digital Transformation Awards, August 2022.
Successes in UK/NHS
NHS Customers: NHS Lothian, NHS Borders, NHS Fife NHS Pilots - all due to be completed by Q4 2022: NHS Lothian (Long Covid, Stroke, Neurology), NHS Dorset (Stroke), NHS Winchester (Stroke), NHS Scotland-wide (stroke and neurology content for Tailored Talks) Tailored Talks: Is being used across Scotland in ICU for patients leaving hospital after being treated for covid-19, for stroke and neurology, with over 465 clinicians on the system. It is also used within the third sector, for example Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS), a Scottish charity via their patient advice line. MyTailoredTalks: Is being piloted with 27 GP surgeries in NHS Lothian with over 100 patients now actively using the system and plans in place to extend the pathway to all GP surgeries in NHS Lothian in late 2022.Company details
Solutions
Enhancing collaboration and communication
Specialism
Patient engagement, communication and education
Company details

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We are in discussions with an Irish Hospital but are yet to export
Desired Markets
Ireland and Australia. We’re also keen to build connections with countries which have large English-speaking populations.
Desired customer types
Hospitals, Government Health Systems and Private Groups