NHS launches range of online tools for diabetics to help during Covid-19
A number of online tools for those living with diabetes are now available on the NHS to help people manage their condition during the coronavirus pandemic.
Digital Patient
Tech providers join forces to help get digital services into care homes
Four technology providers have launched a major campaign to help the care home sector post-Covid by using digital services to improve their businesses.
Clinical Software
Firebase URL ‘leaked technical information on Babylon’s GP at Hand’
The database was being used to store testing information for the company’s technology and GP at Hand, revealing the success rate of different functions.
AI and Analytics
NHS Covid-19 data store fails to collect and analyse BAME data
The data protection impact assessment (DPIA) on the data store revealed that health information on the virus would not be broken down by ethnicity.
AI and Analytics
Digital Health’s coronavirus news round-up
As we head well into month 3 of lockdown – Digital Health News has rounded up all the latest Covid-19 news, including an update on the contact-tracing app.
News
Government abandons contact-tracing app for Apple and Google’s tech
A parallel version of the NHS contact-tracing app using Apple and Google’s technology had been in the pipeline since early May.
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Norway forced to backtrack on mass surveillance track and trace app
Norway has been forced to stop loading data to its national Covid-19 track and trace app after a ruling by the national data privacy watchdog.
Cyber Security
Worcester Acute Hospitals deploys digital pre-op assessments
Using Intouch with Health’s Synopsis, the system aims to increase the trusts pre-operative capacity and enable patients to see the right nurse.
Clinical Software
Collection of BAME Covid-19 data ‘should be mandated’
Public Health England (PHE) has released a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME people.
AI and Analytics
Text and telephone consultations trump video during Covid-19
Text and telephone consultations proved more popular than video consultations, which providers put down to video being newer and therefore less familiar.
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