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KnowledgeShare Case Study: It’s Good to Share…and Care

It's good to share. Even better when it's in the interest of the health and well-being of the nation as well as the ongoing professional development of NHS staff. KnowledgeShare, a web application created by Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and built by software developers Maldaba Ltd., is achieving just that and word is spreading fast! Read More

When is Shared Decision Making actually Shared?

There is a lot of publicity about Shared Decision Making. For example the term comes-up a lot in regards to healthcare, when a patient is included in the dialogue with the healthcare professional to decide on the most appropriate course of treatment. Sounds great, except that the issues around implementation and barriers to entry for daily use can result in at best an inconsistent approach to how Shared Decision Making is perceived by both professionals and the general public. Given that Maldaba's been involved in this area since before the term had become common parlance, I thought it was time to write about our perspective of design, development and implementation. Read More

My Living Will is live!

For the past couple of years Maldaba has been working with a start-up charity called My Living Will.  This is an innovative project that aims to inform, educate, and empower all of us off the back of the Government's 2005 Mental Capacity Act. Read More

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from Maldaba! Thanks to Rafal, our newest team member, for his excellent carving skills!… Read More

Graphing with jqPlot

I recently worked on the Red Light Green Light project for our client the Vaccine Confidence Project, at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  Red Light Green Light is a Gates-funded application for helping hospitals in Uganda see what services they can improve on based on rapid patient feedback. We created web-based browser analytics dashboard that aggregates patient responses. For example how did the patient find the hospital service, was their doctor was helpful, and so on. Read More

CDS Service Desk Goes Live

Maldaba are proud to announce another bespoke software launch.  Following a very productive half-day workshop with the senior management team, around their business goal, CDS Co-operatives commissioned Maldaba to design, develop and launch their Service Desk, a customer service portal to support CDS as the focus on delivering outstanding customer service. Read More

Decision Tool Trial to Help Young People who Self-Harm Launches

We're excited to announce that our research partners at King’s College London have launched their randomised controlled trial into a decision tool for young people at risk of self-harm.  This is a web-based research project funded by Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Charity and uses two pieces of Maldaba software to carry-out the research and to deliver the decision tool. Read More

My Health Guide wins People Driven Digital unAwards 2015

What can we say?  Well, we won!  Friday evening turned out to be a delightful start to the weekend with the fabulous People Driven Digital unAwards 2015 in Leeds.  We drank wine, met some brilliant innovators, and chatted about exciting projects in digital health.  Read More

My Health Guide Phase 1 Completion

In October 2014 Maldaba won an SBRI Healthcare development contract.  This was a 6-month Phase 1 feasibility project to produce a truly innovative technical solution for helping learning-disabled adults better manage their healthcare, be part of the decision-making process regarding their healthcare, and feel empowered that their views and wishes were taken into account by carers and health professionals. Read More

Thinking about key names in PHP

I recently had to write some code which built quite a large structured array in PHP. I know that PHP performs some amount of internal variable optimisation - for example copying a variable by value won't create a new instance of that variable's contents in memory until the variable is modified, which keeps the memory footprint down for a lot of common situations. Read More

You rolled your own framework? Really?

One of the questions I get from pretty much every new developer that we hire is "Why did you write your own framework?  Why don't you just use X?", where X is the whatever PHP framework is currently flavour of the month. Read More