Mobile and app news in brief
This month’s round up of news from the world of healthcare apps and mobile developments kicks off with the widely-covered Health4Life sugar cubes calculator.
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Child health digital strategy promised
NHS England wants to create a single view of a child’s health record, available online to healthcare professionals and accessible to patients and carers.
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GP ‘detailed coded record’ info revealed
GPs must offer patients access to their ‘detailed coded record’ by the end of March next year; and NHS England has now released guidance explaining what this will mean.
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Wales sets out digital ambitions
Welsh patients will access their medical record online and use smartphones to manage their health as part of a five-year digital health strategy published by the Welsh government.
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Dating app encourages organ donation
Dating app Tinder has partnered with NHS Blood and Transplant to raise awareness about organ donations.
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Tom’s digital disruptors: app up this winter
‘Tis the season for newspaper headlines about NHS ‘winter pressures’. Thomas Meek looks at some of the apps and other innovations that organisations around the country are using to try and relieve some of the pain.
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Mobile health and apps news in brief
This month’s round-up from the world of healthcare apps and disruptive technologies: includes an NHS trust app to support lung surgery patients; a gaming-inspired stop smoking app; and £10 million for a Manchester IoT project.
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Lane Fox calls for free NHS wi-fi
The provision of free wi-fi across the NHS estate is one of four, major recommendations set out by internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox in a new report on the digital future of health.
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10m patients book to see GP online
NHS patients in England are on track to book 10 million appointments and order more than 15 million prescriptions online in this financial year.
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Mobile health and apps news in brief
This month’s round-up of apps and mobile developments includes new apps to support parents, a cookery app that measures brain function and GPS tracking for dementia patients
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