Bringing together patients' perspectives on eHealth and mHealth
In 2016, the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK, helped to launch the innovative app game, Sea Hero Quest. 5 years on, its re-launch is aimed at the research community to build on the learnings from the original project. Research at scale Outside of Covid-related apps like the …
One of the learnings from the current pandemic is how rapidly and easily people with all ranges of technical ability and experience have embraced online video meetings. Once expensive and limited to big corporates, during the crisis it’s connected new users to bring families together, …
Patient groups unite for digital registries Digital patient registry: Patient registries have always provided an important way for patient groups to demonstrate the scale of need, support research participant recruitment, and improve treatment and overall experience. Digital technologies are making real-time evaluation of patients’ real-world experience, …
OVERVIEW OF SUCCESSFUL DIGITAL HEALTH Recently, Experentia, an independent international experience design consultancy, reviewed some of the most used and most highly rated healthcare apps. Their review: embraced many aspects of digital health, from apps for patients and clinicians, through to wearables and ingestible sensors …
Study finds: physical activity apps can help change behaviour… A recent study by health science researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU), USA. They found that nearly 60% of respondents strongly agreed that using physical activity apps increased their desire to be healthy. Following on, 56% …
iPhone ten years on – appiness? Ten years ago, the iPhone launched, moving mHealth into a new gear with trusted apps recommended by patient groups. Looking back: through directories, research, toolkits and websites PatientView and myhealthapps have aimed to connect individual patients with trusted apps recommended …