We’d like to congratulate our 2020 NHS Market Access Accelerator graduate CardMedic on securing £411,000 in funding from Innovate UK’s SMART grant programme. This is yet another step in the healthcare language app’s tremendously successful journey.
The grant will be used to fund a 12-month project (April 2025 – March 2026) to transform how healthcare organisations deliver language services, further strengthening the existing CardMedic app and developing an AI-powered portal to provide on-demand access to interpreter services, tailored to patient needs.
This latest investment comes after having been awarded close to £500,000 by SBRI Healthcare as part of their Urgent and Emergency Care, Phase 3 competition earlier this year. The development of the CardMedic platform, and its mission of eradicating barriers to care are progressing greatly, and we’re proud of how far the company has come since graduating our flagship programme in 2020.
CardMedic is a healthcare language app, designed to overcome any communication barrier, ensuring every patient can communicate effectively with the healthcare staff who are looking after them. Whether their barrier is visual, auditory, cognitive or a language barrier, the app ensures patients have the information they need in a form they can understand, and that they can have their voice heard by their clinical team.