Addressing a burning issue
The Mersey Burns App was the overall winner of the EHI Awards 2013 in association with CGI; and will be at EHI Live next week. Daloni Carlisle talks to its developers.
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Look at app
A recent study identified 321 imaging apps for smartphones. But what kind of apps are they – and how are they being used? EHI Imaging Informatics editor Kim Thomas investigates.
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Is there a regulation for that?
Richard Brady, a surgical registrar, is worried that too many medical apps have too little medical input – and may be unsafe. He tells Lis Evenstad that regulation is needed.
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Joe’s view of telehealth for dummies
Joe’s Mam loves drinking tea. He’s taped an iPhone to her kettle. Now all he needs is an app to tell him she’s boiling it regularly, and he’ll be sure that she’s ok.
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Guy’s gives clinical guidelines via app
A clinical guidelines and hospital contacts app will be introduced at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust before the end of the year.
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Jr doctor creates ward problems app
A junior doctor at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has created an app to flag up problems and inefficiencies on the wards.
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Scotland gets HANDI
The Scottish cluster of the Healthcare App Network for Development and Innovation has been launched at the Health Informatics Scotland conference in Edinburgh.
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Speakers announced for EHI Live 2013
Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s national director for patients and information, will be the keynote speaker at EHI Live 2013; where he will head a programme of top-name presenters.
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NHS Hack Day presses for free wi-fi
Two thirds of clinicians believe that having access to wi-fi would improve patient care, the first results of an ongoing nationwide survey on wi-fi in hospitals have suggested.
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Joe’s view of the end of CfH
NHS Connecting for Health did not get a public send off as it finally ceased to exist on 1 April. Which is a shame, as Joe McDonald had his funeral oration all ready…
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