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Davey Winder: where’s the appetite for security?

Our cyber security columnist is worried that in all the high-level enthusiasm for health apps, far too little thought is
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Explainer: when is an app not an app (but a medical device)?

New guidance has been released on when an app becomes a “medical device” but attempts to control which apps creep
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Expo 2016: What you need to know

The 2016 Health and Social Care Innovation Expo wasn’t short on new policies, big reveals, and fancy tech. Ben Heather
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Wearable and app in trial to prevent diabetes

Wearables and “motivational” mobile app will be piloted in London as a fix for the swelling health burden of Type
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Mobile and app news in brief

This month's round-up of mobile and app news includes a security 'destruction tested' imaging app and projects to help patients
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NHS IT like a “1950s bank” – Swindells

NHS England’s new commissioning and IT boss has likened the public health system’s technology to a 1950s bank, and says
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Innovation test beds: doing IT at scale

In its ‘Five Year Forward View’, NHS England announced that it would set up test beds to test out new
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Babylon Health launches new AI triage tool

Babylon Health says it has launched the first AI capable of triaging patients; although the company acknowledges that it doesn’t
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Developing a new way of doing healthcare

Apps developed in the UK are transforming healthcare in developing countries; and sometimes their ideas are coming back the other
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Mobile and app news in brief

This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes an award win for SiteKit, the company behind the eRedbook, and
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