Healthcare teams at Salford Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance Group, is piloting the use of a remote monitoring system to support heart failure patients. The tech includes a smartphone app designed by connected care supplier Dignio and easy-to-use bluetooth devices. It’s currently being used by teams in […]
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ plans to continue using virtual visiting app for intensive care patients
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has been using its virtual visiting platform project, Life Lines, to improve communication for patients in intensive care. Originally created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic – as friends and family were not freely allowed to visit hospital patients in person – […]
27 trusts to introduce app to support patients coping with Long COVID
The University of Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trusts, and digital health company ELAROS, have developed an app to support patients with Long COVID. Developed to enable patients to self-report their symptoms, the app will track the impact their symptoms are having on their daily living and […]
Mobile app developed to record beating heart sounds
A new app that records the beating of a user’s heart through a mobile phone has been co-created by researchers from academic institutions, including King’s College London (KCL). Staff from KCL’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and the Netherlands’ Maastricht University worked with designers from the Cellule design […]
NHS App records 1 million new users as vaccine certificate update released
The NHS App has attracted over 1 million users since it was announced recently that COVID vaccination certification would be part of a new update for the application. Since 10 May there have been 1,410,386 downloads of the NHS App and 1,302,611 new registered users. The update was released so […]
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital introduces way-finder app for patients
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is launching a ‘way-finder app’ to help patients navigate their way around the site. The app is part of an initiative by the hospital’s official charity, CW+, called CW Innovation – a programme that focuses on testing and scaling the latest innovations with the aim of […]
Google previews AI dermatology assistant tool
Google has released a preview of an artificial intelligence tool it has developed to help identify dermatologic issues. The app is said to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions using the camera on your phone. Following uploading three images, the tool asks the user a series of questions, such as […]
University of Surrey and Vinehealth awarded £1m grant
Vinehealth and University of Surrey have been awarded a £1 million grant to trial a support app for patients undergoing cancer treatment. The grant, from Innovate UK, is to to fund a randomised controlled trial of the cancer companion app, which aims to support patient self-management. Its mobile app supports cancer patients […]
NHS COVID-19 app peer-reviewed, helps avert 248,000 infections
The NHS contact-tracing app has now been peer-reviewed by academics and it’s been highlighted that the technology made a significant impact on lowering the spread of COVID-19. Published online on 12 May 2021 in Nature, the academics calculated that the app helped avert 248,000 infections and potentially saved over 8,700 […]
All-in-one mental health app launched by Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT
A new online mental health platform that acts as a “one stop shop” for children, young people, parents and professionals to make referrals into partnership mental health services in Liverpool and Sefton has gone live. The all-in-one nature of the app means users can get access to a wide range […]
