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Breast cancer: Patient creates app to help with treatment
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A mobile app designed by a patient is helping people with breast cancer prepare for the start of radiotherapy. The treatment requires them to raise their arm above their head, but patients often find that difficult or painful after breast surgery. Exercises are important but Karen Bonham said leaflets giving details did not help her enough. So she helped create the app to offer exercise videos and medics say it is helping more women be ready on time. Staff at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff say they have noticed fewer patients needing urgent referral for physiotherapy ahead of the treatment since the "Breast Axilla Postoperative Support app", or BAPS App, was launched in February. Kate Baker, clinical lead physiotherapist at Velindre, who helped devise the app, said: "Previously, we've always handed out information on exercises in a leaflet, that patients would be given by a physiotherapist and taken home. But often these pieces of paper get lost and they're not followed through. "What we wanted to do was provide exercises, physical activity advice and further information in an app format, which would allow individuals to have it with them at all times." Donna Egbeare, breast surgeon at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, who was also involved in developing the bilingual app, said the impact of being able to start radiotherapy on schedule was significant. Read full story Source: BBC News, 27 November 2019- Posted
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Content ArticleThe home care environment has a number of unique challenges for care providers, partially due to the high amount of variability between patients and their residences. It was identified that a mobile application used to coordinate some home care services in Alberta had opportunities for improvement in how patient specific safety critical information was provided to staff.
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RCPCH: Young Epilepsy app
Claire Cox posted an article in Apps for health and care
The Young Epilepsy app is a free information and support tool designed primarily for young people with epilepsy, their parents and carers. The app includes a seizure video function, symptom log and diary to help keep track of seizures and aid diagnosis. It also features key emergency and contact details, an information library tailored for either adults or young people, and provides data in both email and chart format that can be easily shared with a school, carer or medical professional.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis film features frontline staff from Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust explaining how they are using technology to improve the quality of the care they provide to their service users.
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Content ArticleThe Patient Experience Journal (PXJ) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published in association with The Beryl Institute. PXJ is committed to disseminating rigorous knowledge and expanding the global conversation on evidence and innovation on patient experience. Grounded in their core principles, PXJ engages all perspectives, with a strong commitment to patients included.
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Content ArticleCareFlow Vitals is a mobile app and secure data storage system used to quickly and easily record patient’s vital statistics. This data is then instantly accessible to all relevant doctors, nurses or other specialists. Clinical staff can easily monitor patients, record observations and assessments, as well as escalate concerns. CareFlow Vitals has supported Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in delivering quality improvement and a patient safety culture.
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Content ArticleA digital tablet intervention to record and communicate data on the health of residents was used in care homes in Sunderland. Between April 2017 and March 2018, a small-scale evaluation compared data between eight of the care homes routinely using the intervention with eight similar care homes who weren’t. The evaluation found that the eight care homes using the intervention made an estimated saving of around £756,144 in A&E attendances and ambulance services during this period.
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Content ArticleHomerton University Hospital started a journey with some of its closest suppliers to develop a digital-health tech app. Initially starting with action cards for sepsis, expanding to other topics, and then developing into a smart phone app used trust-wide, with the primary goal of addressing high-risk incidents within the trust.
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Content ArticleInformation on when software applications are considered to be a medical device and how they are regulated written by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
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Content ArticleDespite recent policy recommendations advocating the use of health apps in routine clinical practice, they are rarely recommended to patients by healthcare professionals in practice. To find out why, ORCHA (Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications) conducted its first study of healthcare professionals’ views regarding digital health, published in the Lancet Digital Health. Conducting in-depth interviews followed by a quantitative survey with healthcare professionals, ORCHA discovered what is most important, of some importance and of limited influence to healthcare professionals when considering recommending a health app to patients.
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Content ArticleThe objective of this review is to contribute to the development of the GMC's policy in this area. Given the GMC’s role as a regulator of individual healthcare professionals (i.e. doctors) this study focuses on the types of requirements and standards applicable to or having implications for healthcare practitioners, rather than the regulation of healthcare providers (e.g. hospitals, surgeries etc.) or healthcare systems as a whole.
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Content ArticleThis review by Van Velthoven et al, published in BMJ Open, provides a systematic overview of standards for the development of health apps based on those for software of medical devices and clinical information systems.
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The NHS App
Claire Cox posted an article in Apps for health and care
The NHS App is for people aged 13 years and over who are registered with a connected GP surgery. -
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How nurses can spot and report error traps and near misses
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How can nurses spot error traps and near misses so that Trusts can learn, respond and take action to prevent unsafe care? What are the barriers to nurses using their insight and where is the good practice that we can share? Any ideas, anyone?- Posted
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