Mobile and app news in brief

This month’s app round-up covers the Scottish fight against antimicrobial resistance and putting clinical photography access on your mobile.

Scottish app to fight antimicrobial resistance.

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest challenges facing healthcare globally so, of course there’s an app for that. The Antimicrobial Companion app, funded by the Scottish government and developed by Tactuum, can be used as a prescribing support tool, outlining the appropriate antibiotic doses for different conditions.

It can also be customised to provide antibiotic prescribing advice across hospitals and primary care, and support management for urinary tracts infection among the elderly. No word on whether it can be used outside Scotland or ensure patients finish their course of medication, another contributor to antimicrobial resistance

Joining up care, on your phone

Carers UK has developed a new app, Jointly, to better manage and coordinate care for the millions of people who care for family or a loved one. It can create a contact list, messaging service for a “circle” of people involved in the person’s care, medication lists, calendars and notes, all linked to a profile. It is part of broader set of digital resources for carers, offered by Carers UK, that are already being used in 11 councils and by Maidenhead and Windsor CCG.

Nervecentre mobilises clinical image access

Clinicians can now access clinical photographs on their mobiles through an app that is fully integrated with a patient’s health record. Nervecentre Software’s mobile clinical photography solution allows photographs to be securely access by clinician with the appropriate permission anywhere. The software will soon be deployed Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, allowing nurses and doctors to view the photographing during rounds, one of several new tech innovations at the trust.

BeYou+, the HIV management app

Developed with input from clinicians at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the BeYou+ app is designed to help people with HIV manage their condition. As well as providing a database of advice from NHS HIV eperts, that app syncs medical appointments and provides a password protected repository to organise medication and people involved in your care. It can also track your CD4 & Viral Load against a graph and set health goals.