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Dedicated coverage of digital health start-ups from across all parts of health and care, with particular focus on those developed by or working in partnership with NHS organisations. A particular focus on start-ups taking part in Digital Health’s annual Pitchfest competition.
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.
Health Innovation Manchester has awarded almost £100,000 in funding to three local organisations developing digital healthcare solutions aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of citizens.
The CEO of a leading NHS innovation hub has said she strongly believes the medical technology sector could benefit from greater participation from women, and believes new measures should introduced to pave the way for this.
Almost 14 million patients across England are now using online GP services to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view their records, according to new figures from NHS England.
Chants of ‘GP at Hand should be banned’ could be heard in east London as a group of patients, GPs and NHS staff protested against the service.
Pilots of a technology programme aimed delivering better care to people with epilepsy have suggested the NHS could save £250 million a year in treatment costs by rolling out the solution more widely.
