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14 August 2020

Mobile health apps news in brief

This monthā€™s mobile apps round-up features news about a trial of the revamped NHS contact-tracing app and NHS Tayside launching
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15 July 2020

NHS stamp of approval ‘most important when prescribing apps’

The team found an NHS badge for digital health and apps was ā€œoverwhelminglyā€ the most important factor for take-up, followed
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app round up
26 June 2020

Mobile health apps news in brief

This monthā€™s mobile apps news round-up features news that the majority of UK people believe their contact-tracing data will be
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Clinical-Software
29 May 2020

Welsh government pledges Ā£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
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21 May 2020

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
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27 April 2020

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
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23 April 2020

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
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23 April 2020

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
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21 April 2020

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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8 April 2020

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
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