Lane Fox to focus on digital health
Internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox will develop proposals to improve take-up of digital innovations in health, the health secretary has said.
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10,000 patients using Emis PHR
More than 10,000 people are recording personal health data using Emis Health’s personal health record, which runs on Apple’s HealthKit platform.
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Care Connect disconnected
NHS England’s patient feedback service Care Connect is not in use anywhere in the country, more than a year after pilots were completed.
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NHS developing PHR adoption strategy
NHS England is working on an adoption strategy to support the use of personal health records.
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Wales rolls-out patient portal
Wales is nearing the complete roll-out of its My Health Online portal for online bookings and repeat prescriptions.
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Cambridge to use MyChart PHR
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust intends to start giving patients access to the personal health record MyChart by the end of the year.
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Another view: of handling demand
Neil Paul is not impressed with the government’s new deal for GPs. Thankfully, some people are working on better ideas for dealing with patient demand than just getting docs to work harder for no more money.
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CQC releases NHS 111 inspection reports
The Care Quality Commission has published plans for regulating and inspecting NHS 111 services, and released reports on three pilot inspections.
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Wearables info to feed records – Kelsey
Members of the public will be able to add data from wearable devices to their electronic patient record by 2018, according to Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information at NHS England.
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Tom’s digital health disruptors: mental health apps
In the second of his new columns, Digital Health News reporter Thomas Meek asks why mental health has seen as explosion of apps; and what needs to be done to get them into clinical and patient use.
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