Open Table, the restaurant reservation service, Hipmunk, the flight scheduling service, and Evernote, a virtual memory service, are all consumer products that offer enterprise versions.
Three memory nurses from the secondary care memory service were seconded to work with the eleven pilot practices.
Baroness Sally Greengross, chair of the APPG on Dementia, said: "We urgently need to make early diagnosis for people with dementia a priority and memory services are a key part of this.
Our recent systematic review of interventions to increase either the number of people with diagnoses or timely diagnosis found that increasing the number of memory services was correlated with higher rates of dementia diagnosis 17 and that they diagnosed people earlier in their illness than traditional old-age psychiatry services.
In Wirral, GPs 'with a Special Interest' (GPSIs) ceased to provide the diagnosis service for dementia patients when the new Wirral Memory Assessment Service was established (Additional file 1), delivered by the local NHS trust providing mental health care, with input from the Alzheimer's Society.
For example, the remodelling of the Wirral Memory Assessment Service was largely driven by a psychiatrist working for a provider trust, while in Calderdale, staff from a provider trust did the work of arranging two large-scale workshops to plan new service models.
"Similarly, investment in memory assessment services is also rising, suggesting that the campaign to increase awareness of early signs of dementia is having an effect.
The note-taking, picture-capturing, voice-recording, handwriting-recognizing universal memory service has been under development for years and launched last February in private beta on the PC.
Another way to put it: the service is now a social network for sharing memories.
The service is currently down for the count as from around 11 19 AM CET (aaah, memories).
