Mobile and app news in brief
This week's app round-up is preoccupied with overflowing emergency departments and whether an app can be used to convince patients to go elsewhere. On the other end of the spectrum, a US company wants to keep you calm with an app that alerts you every time your breathing become "tense". Cut the queues Kent […]
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Sheffield deploying video sign language service
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is becoming the first NHS trust to use remote video sign language technology to support deaf patients.
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Global digital health VC funding hit £4.2 billion in 2016
Record venture capital funds were raised for digital health companies in 2016, according to a new report.
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Cameras used to monitor ulcers in Wales
Digital Health at CES 2017, Las Vegas
Digital Health News’ US correspondent Lindsey Birnsteel, provides a hands on report on the very latest digital health trends from the huge Consumer Electronics Show, 2017, Las Vegas.
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Wearable Parkinson’s system gets CE marking
Health monitoring device and software gets rare Europe stamp of approval as NHS examines news ways to assess patient facing health software.
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Babylon Health to power NHS 111 with ‘AI triage’ bot
An a chatbot app will field less serious health complaints from 1.2 million NHS patients in North Central London as part of a NHS 111 pilot.
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Another view: of Christmas presents and future
Dr Neil Paul has a few gadgets that he’d like to find under his Christmas tree. Starting with some iPhone extensions and moving onto drones, driverless cars, and AI friends to help his frail, elderly patients. Come on, Santa!
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Telephone GP consultations show promise – report
Introducing telephone GP consultations has proved effective but video has shown less tangible benefits, says an NHS England report.
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Laura’s digital disruptors: virtual realit-knee
Digital Health News reporter Laura Stevens goes to Bournemouth to try her hand at (virtual reality) surgery. She learns she shouldn’t give up the day job; but those people who are cut out to be surgeons may well train this way in future.
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