Opinion
Access more areas
Patient.co.uk won an EHI Award last year for a mobile version of Patient Access. With deadlines looming for GPs to offer online services to patients, Fiona Barr reports on a timely winner.
26 January 2015
Start-ups
Opinion
My kind of thing
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust won the last EHI Award for the ‘best use of technology to share information with patients and carers’ for its myhealth@QEHB portal. Paul Curran finds out why.
21 January 2015
Opinion
Power to the people on: Charlie Hebdo and the NHS
Paul Hodgkin wonders what the recent massacre of French cartoonists has to say to the NHS, and argues that thing is that it will need to be vigilant against new demands for its data.
19 January 2015
Opinion
The year of the wearable
There were some eye-catching launches of wearable technology in 2014; and companies see health as a market. Sam Sachdeva looks back and forward to what may lie ahead in 2015.
31 December 2014
Opinion
Power to the people on: the great confidentiality face-off
Confidentiality can’t just be toggled on and off, because it goes to the heart of the doctor/patient relationship. Paul Hodgkin argues modern IT systems need to reflect that.
9 December 2014
Opinion
Another view: of support chat
Dr Neil Paul wonders if GP practices could learn from the modern support tools used by companies; and suggests that online chat could well have a role.
18 November 2014
