This document discusses how technology and apps can help drive people-powered health and care, using the example of the Man MOT app. It notes that working-age men are less likely than women to visit GPs. The Man MOT app provides online personalized health information, advice, and support to empower men to take control of their health. It has been co-created with men and funded by the UK Department of Health. The app is accessed mostly on mobile devices and provides health information and a chat feature that GPs also use. Men use it for reassurance, specific advice, and to prepare for GP consultations. It helps overcome barriers like time, convenience, and anxiety around interacting with GPs. Over 1.5 million

1. How technology and apps can help drive
people powered health and care
A third sector insight from end of life care and men’s health

2. Martin Tod
Chief Executive, Men’s Health Forum

3. Why men’s health?
19.6%
Male deaths – under 65
12.0%
Female deaths – under 65
Source: ONS 2014

4. Wang Y et al. BMJ Open 2013;3:e003320
©2013 by British Medical Journal Publishing Group
Working-age men less likely to visit GPs

5. Man MOT
• ‘Online personalised health
information, advice and support
resource to empower men to take
control of their health’
– Funded by Department of Health
Innovation, Excellence & Strategic
Development Fund -
Personalisation and Choice of
Care and Support
• Co-created with men

6. Man MOT – how men use it
57%
32%
11%
Health information
Mobile
Desktop
Tablet
66%
25%
9%
Chat

7. Man MOT – how GPs use it
• Standalone app
available on PC and
Mac

8. Man MOT – what they say
• Why men use it
– Reassurance
– Specific, professional advice from an
authority figure
– Context for GP consultation
– Second opinion – verifying health
advice
• Overcomes barriers
– Taking time away from work
– The inconvenience of arranging a GP
appointment
– Feeling anxious about interacting with
the GP including;
• Not having enough time to fully discuss
concerns with the GP – often men wait
until they have more than one concern
before visiting the GP
• Being unable to adequately express
themselves during the GP consultation
– Not wanting to waste GP time

9. Man MOT – what they say
• 1,500,000 views of our health
information
• 1,718 chats
• 1,754 email conversations

10. Man MOT – challenges
• Sustainable funding model
– Sponsorship
– Commissioning
– Occupational health
• Cost, capacity & targeting
– Lowering cost of reaching the men in most need
• Continuously improving quality

11. Men’s Health Forum
• www.menshealthforum.org.uk
• www.manmot.co.uk
• office@menshealthforum.org.uk
• 020 7922 7908
• 32-36 Loman Street, London, SE1 0EH