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
Digital Health interview: Ali Parsa
Kim Thomas talks to Ali Parsa, the former chief executive of Circle, and leader of Babylon Health; a company with big plans to disrupt healthcare by offering services over and app and by automating them using AI.
Digital Patient
Joe’s view: Can the NHS bear to be special?
Joe McDonald is worried that “NHS special” technology services are coming at too high a development and financial cost to be sustainable. Time to use other people’s infrastructure and ideas…
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Mobile and app news in brief
This month’s round up of news from the world of healthcare apps and mobile developments kicks off with the widely-covered Health4Life sugar cubes calculator.
Digital Patient
Tom’s digital disruptors: mobile video consultations
More and more private GP companies are setting up video consultation apps; and the NHS is being urged to move in the same direction. But what problem are they solving, asks Thomas Meek.
Digital Patient
Digital monitoring key to health future
Personal digital health technologies could replace the traditional healthcare systems in the way that electricity made candles obsolete, health entrepreneur Ali Parsa has claimed.
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Mobile app puts ‘doctor in your pocket’
A mobile app lets users see their GP through video consultations and order prescriptions on their smartphone or tablet.
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