About Us
MedHand International
MedHand International was formed in 2001 by a group of medical doctors and computer engineers. Its mission is to deliver clinical information “at the point of care” for health care professionals.
Our main product Dr Companion is a full mobile library delivered on a card which the doctors can freely move between laptops/stationary computers, smartphones and PDAs, giving them instant access to their most trusted references whenever needed.
The product has earned an enviable reputation among doctors in UK and Scandinavia with its unique patent pending user friendly navigation features.
MedHand International is collaborating with all major publishers in the Medical Life Science sector and has recently signed a 6 year world-wide exclusive agreement with Oxford University Press for mobile delivery of their popular medical handbooks series.
The MedHand Mobile Library technology is quickly becoming an industrially accepted solution for the delivery of content within the medical profession. MedHand International is a leader in the field, utilizing both new technology and innovation to deliver the best possible product for the medical profession.
Mission Statement
MedHand International's goal is to provide the most user friendly, flexible and secure architecture for the presentation of information on any type of computing device running any type of operating system.
Position
MedHand International is a provider of mobile knowledge for medical professionals. Dr Companion is a mobile library, designed to serve medical doctors in the United Kingdom / Commonwealth and Scandinavia. Dr Companion has the potential to serve professionals all over the world. MedHand enjoys a status of partnership with Oxford University Press.
Board of Directors
| Mr. Kjell Bohlund | Baltic Sea Foundation, Sweden |
| Prof. Michael Swash, MD, FRCP | The Royal London Hospital, United Kingdom |
| Dr. Ulf Gunnarsson, MD, PhD | The University of Uppsala, Sweden |
| Dr. Anders Milton, MD, PhD | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden |
| Mr. Jan Boehme | Baltic Sea Foundation, Sweden |
| Dr. Henrik Andersson, MD BA | Founder |
| Mr. Aaron Ardiri, BSc | Founder |
| Mr. Magnus Stuart | CEO |
| Mr. Pär Östansjö | CFO |
History
MedHand International was founded in 2001 by a general practitioner and a mobile development expert to create a mobile medical information suite. Assisted by a board of international medical experts, Dr Companion was created.
Dr Companion was originally developed for the Palm OS® platform and products were released in Sweden and the United Kingdom in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Marketing and distribution was conducted in collaboration with Palm in both countries.
Due to the growing presence of other handheld operating systems and the desire of our customers to use the product on standard computers, the development of a revolutionary multi-platform framework began that allowed the production of a product for many devices using a single development code base.
In late 2006 MedHand International completed the development of its multi-platform version of Dr Companion. Utilizing just a single memory card the product effortlessly worked on Palm OS® and Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) handheld computers and smartphones and could be used on Windows and Mac OS X based personal computers.
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