Healthwatch hosts comparison sites
Healthwatch Sandwell has set up a GP practice comparison website including information on how long it takes to get an appointment.
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Paper cuts
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for a ‘paperless’ NHS was the big healthcare IT initiative of the past five years of coalition government. But are we close to achieving it – or even knowing what it means? Thomas Meek investigates.
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Value of apps and wearables questioned
The potential for smartphone apps and wearable devices to have an effect on health outcomes has come under question in an article published by the BMJ.
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Power to the people: signs off
Paul Hodgkin, the former GP and founder of Patient Opinion, reflects on a non-Marxist, Marxian revolution in his last column for EHI.
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Cerner app on time for Apple Watch
Cerner has developed a personalised healthcare data app to use on the Apple Watch, hailing the device as “the next evolution” in healthcare.
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London trust creates kids’ sleep tracker
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new smartphone app to help parents keep track of their children’s sleep patterns.
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‘Lab in a bag’ backed by NHS England
A portable diagnostics service will “transform” the way patient care is provided in the country, NHS England has said.
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King’s develops arthritis app
The rheumatology department at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has adopted a smartphone app to support outpatients living with chronic arthritis.
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Govt hopeful on patient access target
The government is optimistic about meeting its April deadline for patient access to online records, despite January figures revealing that thousands of practices were yet to offer the service.
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Calling up a storm
Thomas Meek looks at the troubled history of NHS 111 in the first of a short series of features looking at the major healthcare IT initiatives of the present government in the run up to the general election.
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