Bringing together patients' perspectives on eHealth and mHealth
Standing out with video at the app stores Even fully commercial developers with big budgets struggle to make their health apps stand out from many thousands on the app stores. The UK patient organisation, the Brain Tumour Charity, stands ahead of the crowd in three …
Digital Health Generation The recent “Digital Health Generation” report raised concerns about how young people in the UK use apps and other digital technologies to manage their health. Reaching teenagers On the plus side, the survey with more than 1000 English 11-18 year olds and …
Around two years ago, I happened to be waiting in an out-patient department during a ransomware attack on the UK NHS. In this case, the UK’s over-dependence on paper-based patient records paid off. Even so, staff being locked out of all systems, including appointments, caused …
BEST DATA PROTECTION PRACTICE For many European patient groups and organisations, understanding their obligations under the European Union General Data Protection Regulation can be challenging. Touching all patient group activities from creating apps, to holding individual’s data, to clinical research and registries, the Regulation will …
DeepMind, the Royal Free and the ruling Let’s being with The UK Information Commissioner’s Office. They ruled that the patient data sharing agreement between the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Google DeepMind was non-compliant with data protection law in a number of areas. …
European cancer patient group argue benefits of mHealth… Lets begin with the European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) which argues the case for mHealth in cancer as part of its White Paper, `The Value of Innovation in Oncology’. In due time the paper will be launched. With …