Mobile health apps news in brief
This month’s mobile apps news round-up features news that the majority of UK people believe their contact-tracing data will be used for other purposes.
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Welsh government pledges £650,000 for specialist advice app
The Consultant Connect app has been deployed across NHS Wales to help mitigate the Covid-19 outbreak, as well as supporting primary care in the long term.
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App provides on-the-spot mental health crisis support
A team of trained mental health professionals will offer direct video support to responders and patients in a bid to reduce unnecessary A&E attendances.
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NHSX sets up ethics advisory board to oversee contact-tracing app
The panel will be led by Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery, of University College London. He was previously head of the Nuffield Council on bioethics.
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Contact-tracing apps could ‘catastrophically’ hamper trust, academics warn
An open letter, signed by professors from 26 countries, urges governments to evaluate potential dangers of contact-tracing apps before implementing them.
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Imperial white paper outlines key data questions for contact-tracing tech
Contact-tracing could prove useful in avoiding long-term confinement measures, the college said, but caution needs to be exercised to protect privacy.
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Digital Health Unplugged: April news team debrief (from home)
Join senior reporter Andrea Downey, editor Hannah Crouch, and editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma as we discuss the development of contact-tracing apps.
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ORCHA launches library of clinically approved Covid-19 health apps
Since the beginning of March 2020 more than 500 health apps have been updated to contain coronavirus-related keywords in their description, ORCHA said.
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Mobile health apps news in brief
This month’s mobile health apps round-up features news Breast Cancer Support’s end of treatment app, Becca, has been translated into Welsh.
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NHS staff given free access to mental health apps amid Covid-19 outbreak
The apps, which include platforms to proactively improve mental health and sleep improvement programmes, will be freely available until December 2020.
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