iPlato launches MyGP appointments app as API talks continue
Patients can now book and cancel GP appointments through a new feature launched on iPlato’s MyGP.
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Babylon Health launches new AI triage tool
Babylon Health says it has launched the first AI capable of triaging patients; although the company acknowledges that it doesn’t always agree with clinicians.
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Developing a new way of doing healthcare
Apps developed in the UK are transforming healthcare in developing countries; and sometimes their ideas are coming back the other way, leapfrogging old infrastructures in the process. Kim Thomas reports.
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GPs embracing phone but not Skype consultations
GPs remain resistant to politicians’ calls to adopt Skype consulting, with many citing poor technology and a lack of patient demand, a survey in the British Journal of General Practice has found.
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Mobile and app news in brief
This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes an award win for SiteKit, the company behind the eRedbook, and some interesting initiatives from NHS trusts.
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PHRs struggling to gain traction and show benefits – review
Attempts to create a personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain future if new funding is not found, a wide-ranging review by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit for NHS England has concluded.
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NHS Alpha is moving to beta
The NHS Alpha project is moving into ‘beta’ phase this month and plans to have moved a significant portion of NHS Choices pages to an interactive NHS.uk service within a year.
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NHS Alpha: the team creating a new NHS.uk
Digital Health’s news editor Rebecca McBeth visits the NHS Alpha team charged with building a digital front-end to the NHS, and talks to strategy lead Dan Sheldon.
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Mobile health and app news in brief
This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes the introduction of free wi-fi at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and a mobile e-referral solution for therapists at Nottingham Hospitals.
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GP e-consultations get £45m fund
A £45 million national programme will be introduced for GPs to increase uptake of online consultations with patients.
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