Another view: repeats appointments
Neil Paul has been trying out two products that allow patients to book appointments direct with a GP. One works, because it doesn’t just fill slots, and the other needs more work, because that’s all it does.
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Mobile and app news in brief
Smart specs for facial palsy Glasses that let you know when you’re smiling are being used to rehabilitate people with facial palsy. The Facial Remote Activity Monitoring Eyewear, FRAME for short, is a £800,000 project, led by Nottingham Trent University, is funded by National Institute for Health Research Invention for Innovation Programme. Using miniaturised sensors […]
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Digital patient services offer ‘bright hope’ – Nuffield
However enthusiasm for wearables, remote monitoring and video consultations needs to be tempered by lack of clear evidence, the Nuffield Trust warns.
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2.4m download mobile game to fight dementia
You shoot flares and navigate a boat on your phone. And somehow it helps fight dementia.
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Gareth Baxendale: can wearables count for medicine?
The head of technology for the NIHR Clinical Research Network says fitness apps are already being used to recruit people to clinical trials; but there are some hurdles to their being used in healthcare.
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Remote heart failure monitoring tested in Buckinghamshire
A portal aggregating heart failure data for more than a hundred patients will be deployed in Buckinghamshire.
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Dallas: telehealth’s reboot reviewed
Whatever happened to the massive and well-funded Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale programme, and did it deliver any results? Laura Stevens sets out to find out.
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Remote monitoring of foot ulcers in Derbyshire
Camera equipment for monitoring foot ulcers remotely has been rolled out in Derbyshire, with the aim to cut outpatient appointments for diabetics.
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Laura’s digital disruptors: even better than the real thing
Virtual reality could have any number of applications in healthcare, from training surgeons to supporting patients with some kinds of mental health issues. Digital Health’s Laura Stevens dons her headset to find out more.
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GP video consultation to be rolled out next year
GPs across Greater London and surrounding counties will be provided with access to video consultations software, with hopes it will jump start the historically slow uptake of the technology.
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