Mobile health and apps news in brief
This month’s round-up from the world of healthcare apps and disruptive technologies: includes an NHS trust app to support lung surgery patients; a gaming-inspired stop smoking app; and £10 million for a Manchester IoT project.
Digital Patient
Hospital stops record scanning
A Birmingham hospital trust has halted plans to scan its entire library of paper patient records.
Infrastructure
Endoscope-i can see clearly
A Birmingham surgeon has created an endoscopic iPhone system so clinicians can record and view videos and images of endoscopies in real time.
News
The hunt is on
EHI is asking its readers to define and nominate EPR Exemplars. A week into the hunt, Lyn Whitfield looks at the ideas and the names that have been put forward.
Feature
Heart of England digitises records
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to complete a project to digitise all of its 1.7m paper patient records by 2015.
News