The NHS app library is expected to reopen at the end of March, according to Indra Joshi, clinical lead digital in urgent care at NHS England, who was speaking at the Digital Technology Show in London earlier on this week. The library, which will start out with very few products, will be available through NHS Choices. It has been co-designed by NICE, Medicines and Healthcare […]
Words not only hurt, but now they can heal! Emotion, revealed through the imperceptible characteristics in voices could be used to diagnose certain conditions including stress, depression and cardiovascular diseases. ‘Beyond Verbal’ have been investigating the links between sound and health for 21 years and are hopeful for this technology for the future and have produced an app.
An interesting article was published in Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology earlier this year: “The Use of eHealth Technologies to Enable the Implementation of musculoskeletal Models of Care: Evidence and practice”.
The article describes all kinds of tools and digital resources which have been produced for a range of musculoskeletal conditions.
Full article available here:
News of an exciting workshop has come in. The University of Sussex is holding a workshop and networking event on Tuesday 21st June 2016.
A full and very interesting programme has been laid out, click on the link for pdf (Patient Activitism & DigTech_programme small).
The D3 project will be represented and we will be talking about our research in progress with apps and social […]
Would like to help us in our research? Do you use social media (Facebook, Twitter) or apps on your phone or computer to help with medications? Do you home test? We’d love to hear from you.
The D3 project is looking at the way digital technologies are changing medicine – one of the ways we suggest this is happening is […]
In a recent article, Nature raises concerns that ‘the technology is moving a lot faster than the science’ and many of the apps designed and marketed to help with mental health care are simply not tested. This leaves customer-patients vulnerable to apps which, at best, don’t work and could make their condition worse.
Of course, these apps do many things: some […]
In the news this week:
The Federal Trade Commission, in partnership with the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT, the HHS Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, released an online tool this past week to give mobile app developers legal guidance for the development of their health products.
The FDA has limited regulatory oversight since […]
Would like to help us in our research? Do you use social media (Facebook, Twitter) or apps on your phone or computer to help with medications? Do you home test? We’d love to hear from you.
The D3 project is looking at the way digital technologies are changing medicine – one of the ways we suggest this is happening is […]
Lumos Labs, who make the brain training app Lumosity have been prosecuted in the US for making unfounded claims. The makers claim that the brain training improves memory and brain function and the website makes strong claims about this.
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has previously taken action over another brain training app, plus two others, both for melanoma detection […]
In 2013, the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics reported that there were approximately 165,000 health apps on the market. In the two years since then the number has risen and the updated report is available here.
nearly half of all downloads came from only 36 apps
40% of all apps have fewer than 5,000 downloads
over 90% are free to use
the number of clinical […]
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