Pharma Travel Health Gurus Again Raise the Bar

Pharma travel health solutions gurus, Andrew Halliday and Harnek Chera, have reunited to bring travel clinics PinPoint Travel Health – an advanced software-driven travel health and vaccination platform that helps any traveller stay healthy during their exploration of the world.

The partnership should make waves in a pharma sector that will be well aware of the pedigree of the team of entrepreneurs behind PinPoint Travel Health.  

They are joined by Graham Hewitt, another former colleague.  Andrew and Graham first came to prominence on the travel health scene at MASTA Travel Health, as Chief Technical Officer and Managing Director respectively, and then joined forces with Harnek to deliver the award-winning travel health service,  Knowmalaria®.

Finally, Asif Aziz OBE, Director of Healthcare at Boots UK until a year ago, will help the team to steer their new venture, taking travel health planning to a new level.

The tech-entrepreneurs’ new platform provides everything a travel clinic needs.  The core proposition revolves around comprehensive and personalised Travel Health Briefs.  These equip travellers with all of the essential information and recommendations specific to their travel destination, no matter how remote or off-the-beaten-track.  

Each Travel Health Brief is a tailored assessment of the relevant health risks, personalised to the individual. Furthermore, it includes potential hazards associated with the destination or itinerary.  It also lists all recommended and required vaccinations.

The data underpinning the system is aligned with the latest intelligence from relevant national bodies, ensuring that the advice provided is always up-to-date.

“The PinPoint Travel Health platform offers a precision that takes guesswork out of travel health planning.  Its advanced digital mapping capabilities enable the traveller to receive detailed and accurate health advice for wherever their itinerary’s pins are to be placed on the global map and for whatever activity they are undertaking,” says Andrew Halliday.  

“Nothing comparable exists for travel clinics’ use. What we are providing can truly be described as unique.”

The traveller’s plans are risk assessed, with disease prevention strategies based on geospatial mapping. Once the individual’s personal medical history has been remotely recorded, advanced algorithms check the clinical appropriateness of vaccines and antimalarials, to prevent unwanted drug interactions with existing medications.

Utilising the power of the platform saves valuable time for travel clinics offering this sort of travel health service to clients.  It offers an in-depth assessment to reduce the risks of travel-related disease and infections using vaccinations or prophylaxis recommendations.

All necessary information is quick and simple to input, whether the system is being used for an individual traveller, a family or a group’s needs.

“An individual traveller, whether heading on an adventure for leisure reasons or travelling overseas on business, or their employer, can rest assured that the travel clinic has covered all pre-travel health bases,” adds Andrew.  

“A clinic can use PinPoint Travel Health to deliver best practice to its clients while being assured that the treatments provided will be suited to that particular individual, family or group, travelling to that very precise and pinpointed location.”

For more information, visit https://pinpointtravelhealth.com or email support@pinpointtravelhealth.com

Notes to editors

PinPoint Travel Health is a subsidiary of Personalised Diagnostics Limited (PDX), a company co-founded by Andrew Halliday and Clive Minihan and run by a team of professionals with over 120 years’ combined experience in maximising the use of IT technology within clinical systems and processes, to improve their effectiveness. Specific and significant experience has been acquired in the field of travel health.  

Harnek Chera MRPharmS has been a registered pharmacist for 25 years. Early in his career he successfully built a chain of community pharmacies with a focused approach of implementing enhanced and additional services in a changing primary care environment. Through Knowmalaria®, he revolutionised how pre-travel health services and clinics were delivered by pharmacists.  He is currently Governance Lead and Honorary Treasurer at British Global and Travel Health Association (BGTHA).

Asif Aziz was formerly Director of Healthcare at Boots UK and awarded an OBE for services to pharmacy during Covid-19, in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.

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Editors notes

PinPoint Travel Health is an advanced software-driven travel health and vaccination platform that helps any traveller stay healthy during their exploration of the world. It provides provides comprehensive and personalised Travel Health Briefs. These equip travellers with all of the essential information and recommendations specific to their travel destination, no matter how remote or off-the-beaten-track. it includes potential hazards associated with the destination or itinerary. It also lists all recommended and required vaccinations and uses advanced algorithms to check the clinical appropriateness of vaccines and antimalarials, so as to prevent unwanted drug interactions with existing medications.