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Mobile health and apps news in brief

21 September 2018

Our latest mobile health and apps round up features news that a survey by Roche Products Ltd has revealed there is an appetite for the NHS App

An iPad displaying a mobile version of the TrakCare EPR by InterSystems

InterSystems adds mobile functionality to TrakCare EPR

20 September 2018

InterSystems has added new functionality to its electronic patient record and management system that enables clinicians to interact with information using a touchscreen device.

The CEOs of Medopad and Sherbit after the announcement of the acquisition

Medopad goes shopping in Silicon Valley to strengthen analytics chops

20 September 2018

UK-born health tech start-up Medopad has acquired a Silicon Valley outfit Sherbit just two months after expanding into the US.

A fax machine sits behind a waste paper bin filled with crumpled paper

Leeds Teaching Hospitals pledges to ‘axe the fax’ by 1 January

19 September 2018

Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust has pledged to bin over 300 of its fax machines before the New Year in a bid oust outdated tech from its wards.

First performance data on private consultants published by PHIN

19 September 2018

Validated information regarding the performance of individual consultants is now available to patients considering private healthcare.

The team at Surrey Borders Partnership, University of Surrey and Howz

Surrey trust awarded additional £1m funding for ‘pioneering’ IoT dementia study

18 September 2018

Surrey and Borders Partnership has received £1m from NHS England to fund a study that uses IoT and machine learning to support people with dementia.

System C commits to ‘full FHIR support’ to drive interoperability

18 September 2018

The comprehensive commitment can be seen as the most significant interoperability move yet by a major supplier operating in the UK health and care market.