Digital health
Leicester and Hinckley Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) are embarking on a new collaboration with Lenus Health to digitally transform their breathlessness diagnostic pathway to enhance patient care and streamline healthcare delivery. Breathlessness, a distressing symptom affecting around 10 per cent of the UK population. It is often notoriously complex to diagnose results in long delays [...]
Messages sent to millions of patients via the NHS App have saved the NHS £1.1 million on the cost of previously sending the information via text message. During 2023/24, 22.5 million messages were sent through the NHS App, which would have previously been sent as a text message or letter. The average cost of sending [...]
A tiny, flexible electronic device that wraps around the spinal cord could represent a new approach to the treatment of spinal injuries, which can cause profound disability and paralysis. A team of engineers, neuroscientists and surgeons from the University of Cambridge developed the devices and used them to record the nerve signals going back and [...]
Maternity teams across Nottinghamshire introduced an award-winning app that provides interpreting and communication support for new families and staff. All staff from the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) can now use CardMedic, a digital app designed to help support staff caring for patients where there is a language barrier. Using clinically [...]
By Jon Williams, product owner, RxWeb
Mental health platform Headspace has announced it now offers mental health coaching for its direct-to-consumer subscriber base and will bring therapy services to consumers later in 2024. From this month, US consumers can sign up to access one-on-one support from a mental health coach, enabling them to tackle a wide range of life challenges that [...]
Using a smartphone app, new research has revealed that the cultivation of spirituality is associated with reduced blood pressure. Spirituality-based interventions, such as meditation, have long been associated with health benefits, however, until now, most research has been observational. Defined as “moral and personal values that guide our lives and relationships with others”, a team [...]
A new study has revealed that Virtual Reality (VR) sessions of just ten minutes can assist in reducing cancer related pain. Most people with cancer experience pain, and treatment usually involves medications including opioids. VR sessions that immerse the user in new environments have been shown to be a noninvasive and nonpharmacologic way to lessen [...]
Introducing a single shared digital prescribing record across the NHS in England could avoid nearly one million drug errors every year, stopping up to 16,000 fewer patients from being harmed, and saving up to 22 lives every year, suggests a new study. The figures, which are based on the assumption that such a system could [...]
