Bowel Cancer UK develops text-based support programme
Bowel Cancer UK has joined forces with text message micro-learning platform GoodCourse, to develop a mobile phone text-based support programme for people recently diagnosed with bowel cancer.
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Last chance to share your views – is the mobile now ubiquitous in healthcare?
Our survey – which is open to anyone working in the NHS, and which shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete – closes this coming Monday (11 March 2019) at 10.30am.
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Is the mobile device now a ubiquitous part of healthcare? We want your views
To what extent have mobile devices become a ubiquitous part of modern healthcare? That’s the complicated question Digital Health Intelligence is exploring in its latest research, and we want your views.
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Anglia Ruskin University develops AI app to spot TB
The technology uses a regular smartphone camera to capture a biosensor with a sputum sample, with results delivered ‘in seconds’.
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Royal Papworth Hospital NHS FT to introduce mobile phone check-in
Outpatients will be able to download an app to check-in for appointments via their mobile phone upon arrival and will also be given access to a virtual map to help them find their way around the new outpatient department.
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Mobile health and apps news in brief
April’s mobile health and apps round up features news that personal details of around 150 million MyFitnessPal users have been compromised, plus a Finnish university claiming it has developed an app that can help users monitor their risk of having a stroke.
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Mental health text service for young people launched in Yorkshire
A mental health and wellbeing text service aimed at young people called Buzz Us has been commissioned across North Yorkshire by the NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG.
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Ascensia Diabetes Care adds analytics capabilities to self-management app
A new phone app upgrade from Ascensia Diabetes Care which aims to promote self-management for diabetics has been launched in the UK and Ireland.
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Bluebird Care mobile staff guide is a ‘tool box’ for care assistants
Care assistants have spoken and based on feedback, Bluebird Care, has developed a mobile guide giving staff access to critical information.
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Sandwell uses texts for immunisation
Sandwell Primary Care Trust has signed a deal with iPlato to implement its patient care messaging system to remind parents to attend immunisation clinics.
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