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Providing hollistic healthcare
Sarah Cartledge discusses Nexus Digital Technologies and Palladion Rehabilitation Center’s new partnership with CEOs Mona Hayat and Katerina Karniadaki.
Holistic practices and preventative treatments, is the future of healthcare rooted in millennium old practices?
In a bid to promote wellness as a pretreatment to sickness, award winning Nexus
Digital Technologies have partnered with
Palladion Rehabilitation Center in Tripolis,
Greece. The groundbreaking combination of these services provides a comprehensive, patient led service from prehabilition to rehabilitation with ongoing support to maintain a healthy society.
Until now, many have not considered their health a priority, as it proves easier for people to be concerned if they get sick, rather than taking measures to maintain a sustained level of wellness. COVID-19 has given us the perfect opportunity to reflect on this standard, and Nexus and Palladion’s partnership offers an ideal solution to introduce complete support to patients throughout their wellness journey. Through a series of education, communication and accessibility, Nexus and Palladion aim to change the way we view our own health.
The importance of wellness
Mona Hayat created Nexus as a digital solution to the growing need for prevention treatments, and to empower patients to forge their own path to health via a personalised wellness journey through their app. “We don’t acknowledge enough that we are burning out.” says Mona. A holistic approach to wellness is key to maintaining a healthy society, and accessibility to these services are vital.
Through the Greek government’s healthcare support schemes, many locals are taking steps to better understand how to sustain their wellness with Palladion’s support. Companies based in Greece are also realising the benefits of sustained wellness, and are offering their employees access to these services too, promoting an ongoing focus on society’s wellbeing.
Combining traditional Greek and Chinese
Mona Hayat CEO Nexus Digital Technologies
medicines with state of the art Artificial Intelligence and scientific technologies, Palladion’s Preventative Rehabilitation Program - PreHab - model is exceptional. Katerina has designed a multilayered solution to multilevel illnesses, tackling mental and physical health simultaneously.
“I was genuinely taken aback when I went to visit the Palladion centre in Tripolis,” she continues. “It is the best rehabilitation centre I’ve ever seen in my career. The thing that made it state of the art to me is it was less about the facilities and the way in which patients are treated. It is utterly patient centred. So we’ve come together to do something that we feel is going to be very trailblazing.”
Alongside their rehabilitation services, Palladion provides a head to toe overview of how to maintain wellness. Be it through acupuncture, hydrotherapy, reflexology or clinical intervention, teams of psychiatrists, psychologists and physical therapists work alongside clinicians to offer a full, human-centred approach. “We take into consideration the whole person and their lifestyles to find prevention,” says Katerina.
Supporting the patient journey
Mona’s vision is to extend patient support by including Greek GP practices in the model so they can help their patients focus on wellbeing too. By pointing them to the Nexus platform, GPs can give people access to online health coaches and the whole Nexus community.
By partnering with Nexus, Palladion are able to gain a picture of their next patient before they arrive. Surveys and remote patient monitoring help to tailor the services each patient will receive. Nexus also gives the incoming patient an opportunity to be socialised before their arrival, through access to services and by providing additional information to the patient. This does a great deal in tackling any anxieties. As Mona says, “We are completely equipping the patient to best understand the experience they are about to have.”
Upon arrival, patients are treated to comfortable, styled rooms, exquisite menus and extraordinary views of the surrounding countryside. The intuitive therapeutic approach includes education about the history of wellbeing and teaches
Katerina Karniadaki CEO Palladion
patients to sustain their health, instead of waiting to be sick to become healthy. “What I love about the model Palladion has brought together is the seamless patient pathway it creates,” says Mona.
Not only does Nexus support the patient journey, it also provides a peer platform to encourage trust and support in treatments throughout a wellness focused community. Recommendations are made and patients are able to safely discuss how effective certain treatments have been before pursuing them. Evidence-based data analytics provide Palladion with the tools to encourage other practices around to try a wellness -centred prevention model. “It’s the value system of really looking at the whole person,” Mona adds.
Education and accessibility are critical for Palladion’s goals too. Being centred in a disparate country, mobile apps are essential to allowing all citizens access to a range of complete services wherever they are. Not only do apps increase accessibility, they also provide accurate information to patients through their journey to wellness, and reviews of available treatments.
Katerina Karniadaki, is looking to further digitalise around the current offering to provide “fast, safe and global” services in light of patient needs following the COVID-19 pandemic. “Medicines cannot be outside of globalisation; we must combine our services for the good of society,” she says.
As the cost of being unwell rises, it is essential we focus our attention on maintaining wellness before having to call on invasive medicines and expensive interventions.
