Background: As the population ages, cognitive impairment is becoming increasingly prevalent. Mobile applications offer a scalable platform for delivering cognitive training interventions. However, their variable quality and lack of rigorous evaluation underscore the need…
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Digital is at the heart of the plan but it is let down by bizarre omissions, unconvincing promises and a failure to reflect the “messy reality” of the NHS technology landscape, writes Jon Hoeksma
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Digital is at the heart of the new NHS plan, with big bets on the NHS App and Single Patient Record, but it is let down by significant omissions, no details on implementation and…
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Background: Air pollution is a major environmental cause of premature deaths, responsible for around 7 million deaths annually. In this context, personal air pollution exposure (PAPE), the product of pollutant concentration and minute ventilation…
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Background: Mental health is an essential element of life. However, existing mental health services are having difficulty using the service due to problems such as societal prejudices, counselor shortages. Mobile health(mHealth) is drawing attention…
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Long COVID poses a significant disease burden globally, but its heterogeneous presentation and unreliable coding practices render it difficult to study. Developing efficient phenotyping algorithms is crucial to enabling risk prediction and effective management…
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Duchess of Edinburgh with patient Brayden and Lucy Dickinson, play specialist and VR lead at Leeds Children’s Hospital (Credit: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)
Virtual reality (VR) technology is being used at Leeds Children’s…
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Systemic integration and equitable adoption of Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) require timely, comprehensive, harmonised policies. This paper presents five complementary key enablers: defining DHTs in the scope of fit-for-purpose policy interventions, implementing AI-ready regulatory…
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The British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that allowing patients to book online GP appointments throughout the day could cause a spike in doctors’ workloads and create waiting lists.
Under changes to the GP contract…
The government’s 10 year health plan for the NHS includes several new polices around digital and technology, such as the planned roll out of My Health, a new tool for the NHS App that…
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