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Virtual reality helps children for King’s MRI scans

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has created a virtual reality app to help children going through MRI scans at
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Mobile and app news in brief

This week's app round-up is preoccupied with overflowing emergency departments and whether an app can be used to convince patients
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Cameras used to monitor ulcers in Wales

The software uses a 3D camera mounted on a tablet to monitor leg wounds.
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Wearable Parkinson’s system gets CE marking

Health monitoring device and software gets rare Europe stamp of approval as NHS examines news ways to assess patient facing
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Babylon Health to power NHS 111 with ‘AI triage’ bot

An a chatbot app will field less serious health complaints from 1.2 million NHS patients in North Central London as
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The 12 Insecure Days of Christmas

Digital Health’s cyber security columnist, Davey Winder, undertakes a musical review of some of the hack attacks that were made
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Digital Health interview: Norman Lamb

The personal is the political for the former health minister, who has direct family experience of mental health issues and
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Another view: repeats appointments

Neil Paul has been trying out two products that allow patients to book appointments direct with a GP. One works,
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2.4m download mobile game to fight dementia

You shoot flares and navigate a boat on your phone. And somehow it helps fight dementia.
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Gareth Baxendale: can wearables count for medicine?

The head of technology for the NIHR Clinical Research Network says fitness apps are already being used to recruit people
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