Co-op looks to health tech sector with Dimec acquisition
The retailer hopes the acquisition of the repeat prescriptions ordering app will help it create a digital pharmacy for its members and customers.
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Natural Cycles Facebook ad banned by Advertising Standards Agency
ASA revealed it received three complaints which challenged the claim that Natural Cycles is a ‘highly accurate contraceptive app’.
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Kent CCG goes live with mobile-based prescription ordering app
Healthera will replace the traditional method of ordering through a pharmacy or GP within NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG from 3 September.
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Virtual advice app trialled at St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Ortus-iHealth helps patients and their clinicians to connect through virtual appointments by computer or mobile phone, rather than face-to-face.
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Echo gives carers a helping hand with new medication management tool
The new feature on the app enables friends, family members or other carers to oversee a person’s medication and order repeat prescriptions on their behalf.
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Mobile health and apps news in brief
Our latest mobile health and apps round-up includes a new self-help tool for lower back pain and a collaboration between King’s College London and UK charity Autistica.
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‘Game-changing’ app allows air ambulance services to view patients
The GoodSAM App’s new feature called ‘Instant on the Scene’ sends a link to the 999 caller’s mobile phone, which opens live streaming video to give medics the chance to assess how seriously ill a patient is before setting off.
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UK start-up OnCare raises £550,000 to tackle social care with tech
UK health-tech start-up OnCare has raised over half a million pounds in its efforts to transform social care in the country.
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Confusion over repeat prescription app Echo after ordering error
A prescribing committee has flagged concerns about a repeat prescription app after a patient used it to mistakenly order the wrong dose of medication.
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