Mobile and app round-up
This month’s round-up of apps and mobile developments includes a link-up between Philips and Amazon, new mobile tools for the NHS from EE, new apps, roll-outs, and research.
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
Special report: Mobile Working on the Wards
Technology that can be used at the bedside to record vital signs and calculate early warning scores was a focus for the technology funds. Fiona Barr looks at how trusts are starting to do more with these systems.
Clinical Software
Threat to hurl tablets into canal
Clinicians at a central London trust threatened to throw their tablet computers into a canal before confidence was built in adopting mobile working, an electronic patient record clinical lead has said.
Clinical Software
Joe’s view: An SCR iPhone app?
Apple’s latest operating system comes with an emergency medical screen for users to fill in. Joe McDonald wonders why it doesn’t link to the Summary Care Record; or even a detailed care record.
CCIO Network
Nursing Tech Fund 2 open
Organisations that want to bid for money from the second round of the Nursing Technology Fund have until 2 December to do it.
News
East London goes mobile
East London NHS Foundation Trust is giving its children’s services team tablets with access to the trust’s mobile patient management system while they are out in the community.
News
A Locala service for local people
News editor Rebecca Todd visits Locala Community Partnerships in Kirklees to see how its Dell hybrid cloud service is getting staff mobile and disrupting services – in a good way.
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