Central and North West London NHS FT and North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have launched a remote monitoring pilot with my mhealth for patients with diabetes. Through the introduction of the myDiabetes app, patients can access expert advice, education, nutritional guidance and exercise programmes. Patients can also capture metrics […]
Apps
Myrecovery app to roll-out across Greater Manchester
Myrecovery, an app to support patients through their orthopaedic care, has been selected by seven NHS trusts across Greater Manchester. Developed by surgeons, the digital companion has been created to support patients to prepare for and recover from surgery, and will be initially used for patients across Manchester who are […]
Interview Series: Steven Antrobus, Senior Technical Project Manager for Digital Health Software at The University of Manchester
At HTN we often cover the wide array of apps being rolled-out by forward-thinking NHS trusts and primary care providers. But it’s equally important to go further behind the scenes, to talk to those that help develop and tweak the technologies. So, for this latest instalment in our interview series, […]
Acute COVID app to train redeployed NHS staff now available across the UK
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its official charity CW+ have launched the Acute COVID app, which supports NHS staff who have been redeployed to work with COVID-19 patients. Co-developed with Imagineear Health, the app was originally created as a tool to help staff across the trust’s two […]
Welsh portals link up with English trusts, update access to digital genetic results for cancer treatment
Digital Health and Care Wales has announced two new developments, cross-border sharing with trusts in England and an update on digital genetic test results. The Welsh Admin Portal (WAP) can now, for the first time, link up with hospitals across the border in England. The system that is used to […]
ORCHA releases report into UK attitudes towards digital health
ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps) has released an online report that investigates attitudes to digital health across the UK and outlines what this could mean for the NHS. The report, entitled ‘Digital Health in the UK, National Attitudes and Behaviour Research’, surveyed both those […]
NHS ORB app ready for user testing
The NHS ORB app is ready for user testing, with a launch to take place across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The user feedback stage forms part of a pilot for a national primary care interface for citizens and individuals to access digital services, and for people and patients to access health […]
College of Paramedics rolls out wellbeing platform for members’ mental fitness
The College of Paramedics has launched a wellbeing platform for its members, with a dedicated app rolled-out to provide the workforce with personalised access to tools that promote mental fitness. The College, which is the professional body for paramedics in the UK, recognised the need for the platform in response […]
Digital health library to be launched in Dubai through ORCHA partnership
A new digital healthy library will be launched in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), through a collaboration between the Osteopathic Health Centre and ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps). The one-year contract has an option to renew for a further two years and is expected […]
Women’s health charities part of collaboration to provide ‘information prescriptions’
The Cognitant Group, which works on health technology for patient empowerment, has partnered with a host of women’s health charities and healthcare providers to create ‘information prescriptions’. These will allow people to have “access to the right information, at the right time, in a format that is useful to them”, […]
