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17 September 2019

How a daughter’s cancer treatment inspired an interactive app for sick kids

Dom Raban realised more could be done to help children feel at ease in hospital after watching his 13-year-old daughter
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17 September 2019

Servelec updates Rio to provide real-time access to patient data

A new dataset is available via Healthcare Gateway and will enable sharing of patient data between multiple health and social
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Fran Draper and Dr Mike Taylor
16 September 2019

Connecting Care has more MIG users ‘than any other interoperability programme’

In May there were 37,500 user views in the MIG, which gives staff from 24 health and care organisations access
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16 September 2019

E-observations software delivers marked sepsis improvement at Barnsley

Since introducing Vitals e-obs software, Barnsley Hospital has seen immediate improvements in recognising and treating sepsis, and is now among
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16 September 2019

Academic Health Science Networks launches first report on diversity

The report makes a number of commitments to improve diversity within the organisation, including to set annual equality and diversity
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16 September 2019

NHSE to create ‘innovation greenhouse’ to accelerate uptake of technology

The innovation greenhouse will provide integrated care systems (ICS) with easier access to “tried and tested innovations", according to NHSE
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13 September 2019

Period tracking apps caught sharing medical data with Facebook

Data, including period frequency, use of contraception and symptoms like blood pressure and acne, are being shared directly with the
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13 September 2019

Changes to out-of-area GP rules ‘would be burdensome’ to CCGs’

The Digital Healthcare Council argued patient care should not be limited to CCG boundaries and instead called for a “partnership
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app round up
13 September 2019

Mobile health and apps news in brief

This month's mobile apps round-up features news WhatsApp-style clinical messaging app Forward could save the NHS £44m a year.
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12 September 2019

Unlocking the power and potential of genomic technology

In an exclusive op-ed for Digital Health News, Baroness Nicola Blackwood, explores this potential of genomic technology and what it
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