On August 12, DrDoctor announced the acquisition of Maia from Mindwave Ventures, a personal health record platform custom built for mental health care that allows users to access appointments and triaging as well as documents, care plans, resources, questionnaires and more.
Maia is a flexible and adaptable patient engagement portal, configurable by both the provider (NHS) and end user (patient, clinician and carer), creating a fully personalized experience, catering to individual needs and customized to the specific clinical priorities of each service within any healthcare provider.
DrDoctor is the leading patient engagement platform in the United Kingdom, working with the NHS to deliver on the productivity benefits of hybrid healthcare. The platform is used by more than 24 million patients to support patient communications, appointment management and remote care.
The incorporation of Maia’s technology into DrDoctor’s platform is intended to offer integrated care boards a single, interoperable solution, combining patient engagement and personal health record capabilities. The acquisition marks DrDoctor’s first step into the mental health and community support space, with future plans to extend the solution across the healthcare ecosystem.
CEO Tom Whicher commented that the acquisition will help “ensure mental health is given the same attention and focus as physical health. By joining up a service users’ treatment pathway with their record, service users will have the tools necessary to better manage their own health journey and gain visibility and control.” Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition represents the 150th eHealth transaction of 2024, and the 21st in the patient engagement specialty. There were 17 patient engagement deals announced during 2023, and 43 announced during 2022.
