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20 May 2020

Centralised approach to contact-tracing app ‘based on shaky assumptions’

Privacy expert Polly Sanderson told Digital Health News there were ā€œserious issuesā€ associated with relying on the self-reporting of symptoms.
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20 May 2020

Three Scottish trusts trial Covid-19 contact-tracing software

The pilot will allow the trusts to test the software, which will be used by contact tracers to collect the
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Care Home
20 May 2020

Technology: How social care can emerge from the Covid-19 crisis

When the care sector emerges from the battle with Covid-19, Jonathan Papworth, sees an opportunity to build a new technology-enabled
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Virtual Visit
20 May 2020

Seven NHS trusts using video calling platform for virtual visits

Seven NHS Trusts are using technology developed by WiFi SPARK in to help connect hospital patients with their loved ones
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19 May 2020

Draft bills calls for greater assurance of privacy in contact-tracing app

If the bill becomes law, government would be required to set up an independent contact-tracing app Privacy Tzar to monitor
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19 May 2020

Induction Healthcare to get a new zest for life with acquisition

Induction Healthcare has announced it intends to acquire the cash and shares of health tech company Zesty Limited in a
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19 May 2020

Digital Health Unplugged: May news team debrief

Join Andrea Downey, Hannah Crouch and Jon Hoeksma as they look at the whether the app will be successful and
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
19 May 2020

Government ‘cannot rely on contact-tracing app to ease lockdown’

It is ā€œcriticalā€ that capacity for contact-tracing is advanced for ā€œfurther stages of managing the epidemicā€, according to a government
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18 May 2020

Government roadmap hints at more use of tele-medicine and remote care

The government will look for ā€œinnovative operating modelsā€ for the NHS and other health and care settings as the country
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Mobile nurses
18 May 2020

Allocate platform helps track live NHS absences to help during Covid-19

A platform which tracks live absences in the NHS has been expanded to help the health service during the Covid-19
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