Accurx

{{distinguish|Acrux}}

{{Short description|Health software company in United Kingdom}}

{{Independent sources|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Accurx

| type = Private

| genre = Software company working in the health sector

| founded = 2016

| founder = Jacob Haddad

and Laurence Bargery

| hq_location = United Kingdom

}}

Accurx is a British software company working in the health sector.

The company was co-founded by Jacob Haddad and Laurence Bargery, who met and subsequently founded the company at Entrepreneur First in 2016.{{cite web|accessdate=2023-08-31|title=Accurx raises £8.8M Series A for its messaging app for medical teams and patients|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/accurx/|website=TechCrunch|date=24 February 2019 }}

Accurx's main product is Chain SMS, a messaging program used by GP surgeries to communicate with patients.{{cite journal|first1=Jacqui|last1=Thornton|title=Covid-19: how coronavirus will change the face of general practice forever|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1279|journal=BMJ|date=30 March 2020|issn=1756-1833|volume=368|pages=m1279 |pmid=32229477|doi=10.1136/bmj.m1279|doi-access=free}} The program runs on desktop computers and sends SMS text messages.{{cite news|first1=Matthew|last1=Field|accessdate=2020-04-19|title=Start-up that sends text messages for GPs secures £9m|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/02/24/start-up-sends-text-messages-gps-secures-9m/|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=24 February 2019|issn=0307-1235|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}} It can integrate with some software used in GP surgeries—SystmOne and EMIS Health.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-04-19|title=Accurx|url=https://www.accurx.com/|website=Accurx}} Chain SMS was launched in February 2018 and as of February 2019, was used in more than 1,400 GP surgeries in the UK. Since the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, Accurx integrated a videotelephony system into Chain SMS,{{cite news|first1=John|last1=Naughton|accessdate=2020-04-19|title=When Covid-19 has done with us, what will be the new normal?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/18/when-covid-19-has-done-with-us-what-will-be-the-new-normal|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 April 2020|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}} using Whereby,{{cite web|accessdate=2020-04-19|title=Video consultations: IG and Security|url=https://support.accurx.com/en/articles/3778850-video-consultations-ig-and-security|website=Accurx.com}} and subsequently "more than 90 percent of primary care clinics in England are now using it" for online appointments.{{cite news|first1=Benjamin|last1=Mueller|accessdate=2020-04-19|title=Telemedicine Arrives in the U.K.: '10 Years of Change in One Week'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/telemedicine-uk-coronavirus.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 April 2020|issn=0362-4331|via=NYTimes.com}}

SMS messages from Chain SMS appear from "GPSurgery" by default.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust used Accurx’s patient messaging feature in 2022 to communicate with patients via SMS to ask if they still needed their overdue first appointment or follow-up appointment. 10% said they no longer needed the service.{{cite news |title=Accurx patient SMS messaging reduces waiting list in Leicester |url=https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/09/accurx-patient-messaging-reduces-waiting-time-uhl/ |access-date=7 November 2022 |publisher=Digital Health |date=1 September 2022}}

Its patient-centred viewing system, Record View, was launched in May 2022. It permits clinicians to view a read-only summary of a patient’s GP medical record with the patient’s explicit permission.{{cite news |title=British startup accuRx rolls out patient-centred viewing system |url=https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/emea/british-startup-accurx-rolls-out-patient-centred-viewing-system |access-date=7 November 2022 |publisher=Home Care IT News |date=23 May 2022}}