Elemental: The Derry start-up with a prescription for better health outcomes Jennifer Neff and Leeann Monk-Özgül. Image: Elemental Software Having digitised the social prescribing workflow, health-tech start-up Elemental Software has been recognised as a rising star in UK tech. A prescription from your doctor usually entails some form of medication. It might even come as strict lifestyle advice, prescribing a regime of diet or exercise to improve your health. But there’s also something called social prescribing, which is the business of tech-for-good start-up Elemental Software. Social prescribing is the practice of connecting people to social activities in their community via their health service. Your own GP might give you a social prescription, or you might discuss it with a specialised social prescribing coordinator.