Suffolk Primary Care partners with Aide Health to support asthma patients
Suffolk Primary Care has partnered with Aide Health for a 12-month programme to support patients with asthma and stop the overuse of reliever inhalers.
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NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland go live with asthma virtual ward
Asthma patients under NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland can access a virtual ward to help treat their condition at home after hospital discharge.
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Manchester pilots AI software for adult asthma patients
Manchester is home to a new project from Health Innovation Manchester and AstraZeneca UK, which uses AI to improve adult asthma outcomes.
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Industry news in brief
The latest Digital Health News industry round up feature news a former Pitchfest winner has partnered with a European health company.
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New £3m fund for innovative technology to improve asthma care
The fund will support the development and adoption of scalable and effective asthma health technologies, such as smart inhalers, within the NHS.
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Asthma app monitors children’s symptoms to reduce risk of attacks
The Asthma+me App allows patients to input information about their asthma and link up their smart inhalers, which helps predict when attacks might happen.
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Research suggests asthma sufferers would share data
The ‘Data Sharing and Technology: Exploring the attitudes of people with asthma’ report, which was put together by Asthma UK revealed that of the 3000 people who took part in the survey, 83% felt comfortable to share their information for research purposes.
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Southwark CCG drops Babylon asthma AI pilot following GP at Hand concerns
A clinical commissioning group has dropped plans to pilot an asthma artificial intelligence project with Babylon, after concerns were raised relating to the recent roll-of the company’s GP at Hand service.
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Healthcare IT news in brief
In this week’s round-up of digital healthcare news, we look at added functionality for the NHS e-referral service, a new messaging service at Pennine and an initative to help patients fill out their pre-op assessment at home. New APIs planned for e-Referral process NHS Digital says it will soon by easy for Health IT […]
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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.
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