Davey Winder: where’s the appetite for security?
Our cyber security columnist is worried that in all the high-level enthusiasm for health apps, far too little thought is being given to security. Is it time for a new approach to accreditation?
Cyber Security
Explainer: when is an app not an app (but a medical device)?
New guidance has been released on when an app becomes a “medical device” but attempts to control which apps creep into the NHS have had a rocky history, Ben Heather discovers.
Clinical Software
Expo 2016: What you need to know
The 2016 Health and Social Care Innovation Expo wasn’t short on new policies, big reveals, and fancy tech. Ben Heather examines what we learned at the big event and what questions remain.
News
Wearable and app in trial to prevent diabetes
Wearables and “motivational” mobile app will be piloted in London as a fix for the swelling health burden of Type 2 diabetes.
Digital Patient
Mobile and app news in brief
This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes a security ‘destruction tested’ imaging app and projects to help patients with diabetes in hospital and children with asthma in school.
Digital Patient
NHS IT like a “1950s bank” – Swindells
NHS England’s new commissioning and IT boss has likened the public health system’s technology to a 1950s bank, and says it is lagging behind many comparable countries.
News
Innovation test beds: doing IT at scale
In its ‘Five Year Forward View’, NHS England announced that it would set up test beds to test out new technologies at scale. Kim Thomas reports on the ambition of the projects, in the first of a short series for Digital Health News.
Digital Patient
Babylon Health launches new AI triage tool
Babylon Health says it has launched the first AI capable of triaging patients; although the company acknowledges that it doesn’t always agree with clinicians.
Digital Patient
Developing a new way of doing healthcare
Apps developed in the UK are transforming healthcare in developing countries; and sometimes their ideas are coming back the other way, leapfrogging old infrastructures in the process. Kim Thomas reports.
Digital Patient
Mobile and app news in brief
This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes an award win for SiteKit, the company behind the eRedbook, and some interesting initiatives from NHS trusts.
Digital Patient