Med-Tech Innovation editor Ian Bolland is joined by Dag Larsson from digital health company Doccla to discuss virtual wards, remote patient monitoring and whether this technology will really stick following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Anna Charles talks with Dr Steven Tierney from Southcentral Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska, and Dr Henry Chung from Montefiore in New York, to explore how their health systems have transformed to better support local communities, and how to address digital exclusion in an increasingly digital world.
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This toolkit is aimed at leaders in general practice. That doesn’t just mean GPs or partners, but all staff in the position of supporting others and making change. It provides insight, tips and guidance for getting the best out of the increasing options for teams to work separately from each other and at different locations, with colleagues simultaneously at home, in the practice, and elsewhere.
It provides support to answer the following questions:
The digital era has revolutionised the second half of the 20th century. Medicine has not been spared. It was not long ago that a Palm Pilot with access to Epocrates was the greatest technology. This evolved to the first smartphones, such as the giant Blackberry with tiny letter keys, followed by the touchscreen smartphone. Now we can call, text, e‐mail, page and research any question, even through voice command, in a matter of seconds from one device. With this, medicine has evolved to embrace an electronic medical record, digital operating room schedules, computerised foreign‐language interpreters, and digital prescribing of controlled substances.
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This month’s Digital Health Unplugged focuses on delivering digital mental health care and how technology has been used during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Gaming and healthcare are not usually put together in the same sentence but Kumar Jacob, founder and CEO of Mindwave Ventures, argues there is a lot to learn from the gaming industry.
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A new app that utilises 3D imaging has been designed to help district nurses monitor and manage patient wounds more effectively.
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Upskilling the NHS workforce is a long-debated issue and Rory Tanner from the Health Tech Alliance explores the issue for Digital Health.
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Following a successful trial, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is considering the roll-out of an app with a machine-learning algorithm that uses mobile phone data to predict who is at risk of having a mental health crisis.
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NHS Confederation, March 2019
This report looks at what the UK can learn about making better use of digital technology to deliver mental health services from the healthcare systems in Australia and the United States of America.
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