Technologies including video-game rehabilitation, wearables for patients with chronic disease, and a ‘USB port’ for amputees, are among those selected for the second cohort of DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator programme. The programme, that aims to speed up adoption of technology in London’s NHS, relieving high pressure on services and empowering patients to manage […]
Apps
Kisharon the first organisation to pilot an innovative new app
Kisharon, a specialist provider of education, opportunity and support services to people with learning difficulties, has become the first organisation to pilot Infinity – an innovative new app specifically designed to enable smarter collaboration, information handover, and task management within modern health and care teams. Infinity has been developed by […]
Telehealth GP Service is First to Pass CQC Inspection
Now Healthcare Group (NHG) has announced that it has become the first, and to date the UK’s only, telehealth (mHealth) GP service provider to be declared “safe” and meet all regulations set by the new digital health reporting guidelines, set by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Following a recent inspection on 14 June, Now Healthcare Group was found to be meeting all necessary criteria across five categories, and was deemed to […]
DrDoctor gains three new NHS contracts
Patient appointment innovator DrDoctor is working with three new major NHS Trusts: Great Ormond Street Hospital, managing the Trust’s 150000 specialist outpatient appointments Whittington Health NHS Trust, covering outpatient appointments across the Trust University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, DrDoctor is piloting in Paediatrics to demonstrate an estimated 30% DNA […]
Build healthcare apps in hours, not months
Inhealthcare has announced a major breakthrough in programming technology that will allow doctors to build and launch their own health apps. The company has invented an easy-to-use toolkit that provides a simple set of building blocks for the rapid development and deployment of services for the NHS. The powerful toolkit […]
BridgeHead Software comment on the use of WhatsApp
We heard from Jim Beagle, President and CEO of BridgeHead Software on the use of WhatsApp in the NHS: According to a BBC news story, “The use of WhatsApp in NHS ‘widespread’ say doctors”. While this is troubling, it’s in no way surprising. Clinicians under pressure to do the very best for their […]
drfocused poll says NHS doctors have 30% of their time wasted
drfocused a mobile-based software to reduce the amount of time doctors have to spend on paperwork is now raising £300k to launch their software. “Doctors spend a staggering 30% of their time on paperwork and on top of that, the software they use at work usually slows them down, rather than helping […]
App offers suicide prevention help and support in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire
A new app will offer information, help and support to people in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire to help them avoid suicide. The Stay Alive app, which is the UK’s first suicide prevention app, was created by the charity Grassroots Suicide Prevention, and will now be available in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire after […]
New web calculator to more accurately predict bowel cancer survival
GPs and patients could soon more accurately predict the chances of bowel cancer survival, thanks to a new web calculator developed using data from QResearch, a not-for-profit project between EMIS Health and University of Nottingham. The new tool is intended to help people make more informed decisions around treatment and […]
Corporation Pop receive funding from Nominet Trust for augmented reality hospital app
Nominet Trust has awarded Corporation Pop £50,000 through its seventh round of Social Tech Seed funding. The award will enable the Manchester-based digital agency to further develop their Patient’s Virtual Guide, an innovative mobile app that accompanies child patients through the hospital system, improving the patient experience by providing relevant […]
