Virtual reality helps children for King’s MRI scans
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has created a virtual reality app to help children going through MRI scans at the trust.
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Mobile and app news in brief
This week's app round-up is preoccupied with overflowing emergency departments and whether an app can be used to convince patients to go elsewhere. On the other end of the spectrum, a US company wants to keep you calm with an app that alerts you every time your breathing become "tense". Cut the queues Kent […]
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Cameras used to monitor ulcers in Wales
Wearable Parkinson’s system gets CE marking
Health monitoring device and software gets rare Europe stamp of approval as NHS examines news ways to assess patient facing health software.
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Babylon Health to power NHS 111 with ‘AI triage’ bot
An a chatbot app will field less serious health complaints from 1.2 million NHS patients in North Central London as part of a NHS 111 pilot.
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The 12 Insecure Days of Christmas
Digital Health’s cyber security columnist, Davey Winder, undertakes a musical review of some of the hack attacks that were made on the NHS in 2016, and the measures taken to try and stop them.
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Digital Health interview: Norman Lamb
The personal is the political for the former health minister, who has direct family experience of mental health issues and has used his political career to campaign for better standards – and the IT to support them. Laura Stevens spoke to him.
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Another view: repeats appointments
Neil Paul has been trying out two products that allow patients to book appointments direct with a GP. One works, because it doesn’t just fill slots, and the other needs more work, because that’s all it does.
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2.4m download mobile game to fight dementia
You shoot flares and navigate a boat on your phone. And somehow it helps fight dementia.
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Gareth Baxendale: can wearables count for medicine?
The head of technology for the NIHR Clinical Research Network says fitness apps are already being used to recruit people to clinical trials; but there are some hurdles to their being used in healthcare.
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