Bringing together patients' perspectives on eHealth and mHealth
For more than 20 years, the UK not for profit, the Patient Information Forum (PIF) and its member patient groups have fought to improve patient health literacy. In its recent survey it confirmed the scale of the challenge in building capacity, capability and confidence in …
78,000 new health apps published in 2017 from Research2Guidance Keeping up with the growing health market is becoming ever more difficult. There were 78,000 new health and medical apps added to the global market in 2017 alone. This was one of the main findings from …
Patient Groups Contribute to Regulation For Digital Health in Primary Care Have you seen the latest report into digital health primary care/General Practitioner health services by the UK Care Quality Commission? It suggests that although quality of care is improving, there are still significant hurdles …
VHL Alliance, what helps make patient group app competitions successful? At the end of February, VHL Alliance, the US patient organisation for people with the genetic cancer, launched the winning app resulting from a competition they had organised. The competition: Attracted entries from more than …
Rare Disease Day – February 28th To begin with, rare disease groups have been quick to realise that digital health offers a direct way to reach, support and unite scattered patients who face challenges in accessing diagnosis and treatment. They have also been pragmatic and …
Asthma digital health, what is next? As a huge therapy area, asthma has attracted a large number of poor quality `me too’ apps and poorly implemented digital health activities. But this year there could be a number of breakthroughs in asthma digital health and mHealth, …