Siilo, a healthcare collaboration app, has announced it has raised £8.6 million in Series A funding. The app provides a secure and quick way for healthcare professionals to communicate, without using WhatsApp and is used by St. George’s University Hospitals. The funding round was led by Heal Capital, with participation from […]
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Big Health Daylight app results of randomised controlled trial published
A study into an app to help people with anxiety, from digital therapeutics provider Big Health, has shown positive results in a randomised controlled trial. The app is a way to manage worry and anxiety, based on cognitive and behavioural techniques, aiming to understand challenges and goals, to guide a person […]
StopCOVID NI mobile app to launch
Northern Ireland Health Minister, Robin Swann has announced a new mobile phone app to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 is ready for deployment this week. The StopCOVID NI proximity app will anonymously alert users if they have been in close contact with another user who has tested positive for the […]
Patients Know Best integrates with NHS App
Patients Know Best (PKB), a personal health records provider, has now achieved full integration with the NHS App. The company said its ‘All-in-One’ integration with the NHS App will allow patients to directly access their combined dataset from PKB within the NHS App interface. The Patients Know Best solution now supports […]
Ealing Hospital to go live with e-portering app
Ealing Hospital is to go live this week with an e–portering app that streamlines the process of requesting a porter. Following a successful implementation at Norwick Part Hospital, part of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Infinity Health’s platform will be rolled out at Ealing Hospital’s emergency department to support […]
App launched to remotely monitor cancer patients
Careology, a digital cancer care platform, has launched a new tool to support clinicians to remotely monitor their cancer patients’ health in real-time. The development provides clinicians with previously unavailable patient health data and insights from wearable devices and the Careology app. The company said it will help clinicians pro-actively […]
Self-care tech platform partners with Imperial College London to map COVID-19 symptoms
Researchers from Imperial College London have launched a new initiative with self-care technology platform Your.MD. The organisations will collaborate to map and research the spread of coronavirus of people with self-reported mild or moderate COVID-19. The tool from Your.MD is called COVID-19 Symptom Mapper, which compares, analyses and maps reported symptoms worldwide […]
Ireland donates COVID Tracker app to Linux Foundation Public Health initiative
Ireland’s Health Service Executive has announced the code for its COVID-19 Tracker app will be donated as Open Source to Linux Foundation Public Health initiative. The move is hoped to help regions worldwide quickly build and deploy their own contact tracing apps. In Ireland 1 million people installed the app […]
Welsh health tech company launches free outsourced medical reporting service
A Cardiff-based technology company, Medi2data, has launched a free outsourced medical reporting service for GP practices. The company provides free software and services to support practices, PCNs and federations supply GDPR‐compliant digital Subject to Access Requests (SARs) and patient reports to insurers, solicitors and other third parties. Richard Freeman, CEO, Medi2data, […]
New app to support County Durham and Darlington cancer patients
A new app is to be rolled-out by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust to support patients during and following cancer treatment. The app has been developed by Health Call and technology provider Inhealthcare. The project has been funded by the Northern Cancer Alliance, with content developed by the Macmillan […]
