Loft has a wealth of experience working with clients in the digital health market. Our application development and data expertise mean we’re able to deliver technologies that improve outcomes for patients.
Research bodies, major units in the NHS, large enterprises, start-ups – we work with clients of all shapes and sizes to help them address a wide range of health issues using technology.
With an agile, collaborative approach, Loft combines human-centred design with cloud engineering excellence to create the kind of scalable health applications needed in today’s world.
What we do
Loft is a technology partner to leadership and technology teams across the digital health sector
Technology leadership
We support leadership teams in the health and wellness industry with technology strategy, decision making and delivery of complex programmes.
Apps & platforms
Loft partners with the most innovative organisations in digital health to build modern, scalable, integrated digital products that are transforming the industry.
Data
We are working with industry leaders to design, build, automate and deliver insight from data across the whole health and wellness sector.
Who we work with
Our clients and partners include some of the world’s most influential medical and health organisations, including…
Our track record
Taking the stress out of IVF
Loft worked with Aura Fertility to develop a new mobile app and platform enabling fertility clinics to support the wellbeing of patients through the fertility treatment journey.
Accelerating research into rare disorders through patient collaboration
Research and development collaboration with Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL exploring ways to accelerate rare disease research and improve healthcare.
Working with Loft is transforming our ability to engage with patients around data, and empower them to think of their data as an asset that they can take control of, to improve their clinical care and the opportunities for research into their disorder.
Professor Andrew Webster
Chair of Molecular Ophthalmology, UCL, and Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital
Our experts
Meet Loft’s experienced technology leaders with deep expertise in the health sector
Helen Akoni
Digital health lead
A vastly experienced health technology specialist, Helen has worked with over 40 NHS trusts on leading clinical, patient and data platforms. As our digital health lead, she works in close collaboration with our clients, partners and technology teams. She has an MA in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Cambridge and an MCS in Health Informatics from Leeds University.
Nick Nettleton
CEO and founder
For over 25 years, Nick has been delivering technology platforms and programmes, pioneering innovative technologies and advising senior management teams on tech and data strategy. Applying this experience in digital health, he helped launch the MyEyeSite platform in collaboration with UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Sam Scarles
Mobile and frontend lead
With a background developing web and mobile applications, Sam is a specialist in designing user interfaces for specific patient groups as well as clinicians, health service professionals and medical researchers. He is an expert in accessibility and user-centred design, working closely with our digital health clients and their user groups.
Rimvydas Zilinskas
Lead engineer
Rim specialises in the design, development and management of secure and scalable digital health platforms. He builds the technology that helps our clients become leaders in the space. He’s a certified AWS SysOps and Oracle Java SE 7 engineer with additional expertise in Python, .NET, G-Cloud and other key technologies.
Discover Platform Bio
Using our expertise in the digital health sector, Loft has developed Platform Bio – core software capable using cloud technology to drive a wide variety of digital health applications.
Versatile, secure and scalable, we can customise Platform Bio to meet the needs of patients, clinicians and providers across a spectrum of healthcare fields.
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