Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has announced its StopCOVID NI app is to cover children and young people, starting from next month. The app was launched towards the end of July, and has to date been downloaded more than 300,000 times. Out of 281 ratings on the Apple App Store the app […]
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Pain and dementia facial analysis tech launches
A health tech company, PainChek, has launched its pain assessment app in the UK. The tool uses facial analysis technology to support care workers and clinicians identify and manage pain in dementia and cognitively impaired patients who struggle to communicate. Using a phone, facial indicators of pain are detected, and […]
Research highlights digital therapeutic app helps insomnia and depressive symptoms
New research published today in the Journal of Sleep Research has highlighted positive effects of Sleepio a digital therapeutic programme. Big Health, the company behind the programme, has announced the results of the study to highlight positive effects of their digital sleep improvement programme to make improvements in depressive symptoms. The study examined […]
Healthcare app used by British Army to connect deployed medics
Health tech supplier Pando has partnered with the British Army for its clinical communications app to keep deployed medical staff from the Defence Medical Services connected whilst in the field. The trial of Pando is part of Project LARA, an initiative to develop a suite of telemedicine capabilities to reduce the […]
University of Sheffield app supports motor neurone disease patients
A new app developed by the University of Sheffield and tech company ADI, has gone live at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT to support patients living with motor neurone disease (MND) who are receiving remote care. The trust accelerated the roll-out of the app, ahead of a planned system for remote […]
Barts Health launches new app to aid Covid-19 recovery
Barts Health NHS Trust has launched a new rehabilitation app to aid recovery of Covid-19. The app has been developed by health tech company Living With, along with clinicians from Barts Health and University College London researchers. In late 2019, University College London Hospital launched a version of the app to help […]
NHS Tayside launches app to help people suffering from IBS
NHS Tayside has launched a new app in partnership with Inhealthcare to support people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. The implementation is part of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Pathway from the Scottish Government’s new Modernising Patient Pathways Programme. People are diagnosed within primary care and referred to NHS dietitians who then register […]
New app launched to coordinate support for most vulnerable in Greater Manchester
A new app has been rolled out across Greater Manchester to help match volunteers with vulnerable people in need of support during the Covid-19 pandemic. The app has been developed and launched to support an ongoing need for volunteers to support citizens with a range of duties from collecting medicines to […]
Birmingham rolls out free stop smoking app
Birmingham City Council has introduced a free stop smoking service called Quit with Bella across the city. The mobile app provides users with a virtual coach and a community of users to provide support to each other to be smoke free. The app has been developed by Solutions 4 Health, a specialist […]
NHS Tayside launches paperless maternity notes
NHS Tayside is to go paperless with maternity notes this week using technology from BadgerNet. The free specialist maternity notes app from BadgerNet will replace paper notes and allow pregnant women and midwives in Tayside to be able to access the notes online. The tool encompasses early pregnancy, community based events, […]
