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19 August 2015

Tom’s digital health disruptors: Press start

Gamers love getting high scores and being rewarded for them. So why not apply these rewards to wellness and treatment
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29 July 2015

Tom’s digital health disruptors: rating apps

Services that allow users to rate NHS care have been around for longer than you might think; and there are
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23 June 2015

Tom’s digital health disruptors: mental health apps

In the second of his new columns, Digital Health News reporter Thomas Meek asks why mental health has seen as
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19 June 2015

Four step app ‘endorsement’ process

Healthcare apps will go through a four-stage recommendation process as part of NHS England’s plans to create an endorsement model
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15 June 2015

Call to improve mHealth data protection

Greater efforts must be made to protect patient data collected by mobile devices, according to Europe’s data guardian.
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22 May 2015

App allows messages from the dead

UK developers are working on a new app that allows people to record messages that can be accessed by their
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14 May 2015

BSI publishes apps development standard

The British Standards Institution has published a set of standards to support developers creating health and wellness apps.
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13 May 2015

Kent babies are ‘born to move’

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust has launched a mobile app to help parents of newborn babies and young children
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12 May 2015

RCP apps guidance attacked

Recent guidance from the Royal College of Physicians that says doctors should only use medical apps carrying a CE mark
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30 April 2015

King’s pilots Apple Watch app

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become one of the first trusts in the UK to use the newly
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