Ythos Ltd - Welcome to Ythos

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Hello, and welcome to our new blog; I hope you find that there is some information here that you find useful – or at least interesting!

First, an introduction. My name is Matthew Adams, and I am Managing Partner at Ythos Ltd. My principal interest is to envision, create and implement new, life-changing technology. Every day, I am inspired by the real power that software has to change the world for the better; and with that in mind, I’ve spent most of the last decade working on platforms and products in healthcare and life sciences.

You can find out more about what we do for the day job elsewhere on this site, but this is more of an informal corner where several of the partners, associate consultants and our guest experts will be talking about their insights, challenges and interests. This could be anything from a personal perspective on an industry trend to a clever technique for fixing a coffee machine when the pipes get clogged through overfilling.

While Ythos offers strategic business and technology consulting services, we have not lost sight of the practical, and our team maintains a high level of expertise with the current Microsoft technology stack.

posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:15:29 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:23:00 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Can I add my welcome to that of Matthews' to readers of the Ythos blog where we can hopefully encourage and stimulate discussion on a range of subjects from healthcare and medicine through technology and software architecture. Matthew and I acquired Ythos specifically to develop an evidence base for medical applications that we and our clients and customers can use and to develop ideas and practical technologies that will positively impact on public and private healthcare.

We have seen such radical changes since he and I started Digital Healthcare way back in 1999, which now seems almost a century ago, and the company has grown into the leading supplier of technology for blindness risk assessment and prevention. None of this would have been possible without the technology platform and the emergence of service oriented architectures as the preferred method of building solutions.

All too often technologists lose sight of the impact their work has on the community, in healthcare more than any other area, technology is making a big difference despite some of the bad press surrounding national programs for IT and connecting for health initiatives. I can say for sure that when we get it right, real people benefit. When I visit hospitals, clinics and research trials units around the world I see the impact that well engineered software has on the lives of countless thousands of people. When I hear a physician tell a patient that they need a painless laser photocoagulation therapy becuse they have detected a very early stage lesion with our technology and I know that a few years ago that patient would have been missed and would most likely have gone blind,I know that the hours of effort invested in software development, testing and QC have been well worth it.

So, for what its worth, my take on software development in healthcare is that the net benefit is to the patient and through our company and through working with companies that share the same vision we aim to continue to bring innovation and technology to an increasingly wider audience, so whether we are designing systems to save sight around the world or help develop new technology to fight diabetes, hypertension and cancer it is only through software and technology that we will progress.

Thanks and best regards

Gerry Skews

Gerry Skews

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