Guy’s and St Thomas’ pharmacist develops app for medication questions
The MedTap app provides answers to questions such as when and how to take pills, what to do about side effects, how to re-order more pills and the cost.
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Boots to launch in-store video GP service with LIVI
From 19 September, customers will be able to drop into select Boots stores and get health advice from a GP via LIVI’s video consultation platform.
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England’s chief nursing officer on the hunt for NHS App ambassadors
Ruth May said she wanted nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to be the face of the NHS App and help promote the digital tool.
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EMIS cites ‘huge increase’ in patients registering for Patient Access
According to EMIS Health, sign-ups for Patient Access increased from 6m to 8m over the course of the year, as patients look to more convenient ways of booking GP services.
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Hearing and sight loss patients trained to use digital health tools
The project is designed to find out more about the challenges faced by people with hearing and sight loss when making and attending GP appointments.
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Healthcare organisations offered funding to deploy Patients Know Best
The Innovation and Technology 2019/20 programme chose Patients Know Best (PKB) as an interoperable personal health record (PHR) tool.
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Babylon calls for financial ‘incentives’ for digital providers in primary care
The digital-first provider also called for IT infrastructure to be updated to allow Babylon GP at Hand’s technology to work with existing systems.
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Nine more digital health services to use NHS Login
NHS Login can now be used to access the NHS eReferral service, Patient Access and a host of other digital healthcare service via a single sign-on system.
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New toolkit recommends Skype consults to cut hospital admissions
The toolkit could prevent up to 2,500 emergency admissions a year using digital services, saving up to £10 million according to NHS England.
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Out-of-area GP rules should be ‘withdrawn’, BMA says
The regulations ‘are not in line’ with wider NHS England policy and allow digital providers to prioritise healthy patients, the association said.
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