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Health apps for Long COVID self-management
Patient Safety Learning posted an event in Community Calendar
untilIn this webinar, Dr Sam Shah, Chief Clinical Digital Advisor of ORCHA, will be joined by Dr Tom Micklewright to discuss ORCHA's new Health Apps for Long COVID Self-Management report in depth. Helen Hughes, Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning and member of the NHS England Long COVID taskforce, will join them to discuss what services are being planned and put in place for people with long COVID, what the gaps are in delivering this plan and what patients are looking for. The webinar will: Discuss the findings of ORCHA's Health Apps for Long COVID Self-Management report. Share high scoring apps to help patients self-manage symptoms including fatigue, palpitations, joint pain, depression and insomnia. Examine the services being planned and put in place for long COVID. Conduct a deep-dive into how services can embed five of these apps. Ask the speakers your questions. Register -
Content ArticleThis guide developed by the AHSN Network, the University of Plymouth and the pharma company Boehringer Ingelheim sets out four key principles to involve and engage patients and the public in digital health innovation: Engage – map out your strategy and motivations, identify a representative cohort and develop inclusive engagement practices. Acknowledge, value & support – show you value patients’ and the public’s contribution to ongoing and transparent communication, any necessary training and potential financial reimbursement. Communicate – tailored external communication and open feedback channels are crucial to maintaining engagement and accountability by all parties. Trust and transparency – In order to gain patients’ trust, organisations conducting PPIE should be trustworthy and transparent about potential risks.
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This is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Clive talks to us about the important role of digital technologies in tackling the big issues healthcare faces, the need for digital tools and records to be joined-up and interoperable, and how his experiences as a carer have shaped how he sees patient safety. -
Content ArticleThe health and social care system’s long-term sustainability depends on effective digital transformation. This document outlines the government's plans to reform and develop the use of digital technologies in health and social care in order to deliver a system that will be faster, more effective and more personalised. The plan pulls together the four goals of reform for the health and care system identified by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care: prevent people’s health and social care needs from escalating personalise health and social care and reduce health disparities improve the experience and impact of people providing services transform performance
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Content ArticleThis strategy sets out the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s vision for how data will be used to improve the health and care of the population in a safe, trusted and transparent way. It: provides an overarching narrative and action plan to address the current cultural, behavioural and structural barriers in the system, with the ultimate goal of having a health and care system that is underpinned by high-quality and readily available data marks the next steps of the discussion about how we can best utilise data for the benefit of patients, service users, and the health and care system This strategy applies to England only. The strategy shows how data will be used to bring benefits to all parts of health and social care – from patients and care users to staff on the frontline and pioneers driving the most cutting-edge research. It is backed by a series of concrete commitments, including: investing in secure data environments to power life-saving research and treatments using technology to allow staff to spend more quality time with patients giving people better access to their own data through shared care records and the NHS App.
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Content ArticleLisa Drake, an NHS ex General Practice Manager now working in a digital advisory role, shares some of the missed opportunities for digital ways of working she witnessed when she was a patient herself.
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Content ArticlePatients are becoming increasingly involved in their health through technology such as health apps, and regulators are already struggling to control the market without constraining innovation. Clinical Safety must therefore adapt to the ever-changing world of health apps, if it is to fulfil its purpose and ensure that only the safest technologies are used by patients. In this blog, GP Tom Micklewright looks at some of the safety issues relating to health apps. He highlights that unlike with other new systems, health apps are rarely deployed in a controlled environment, which can cause problems when trying to apply clinical safety standards to them. He looks at five of the issues health apps can cause for safety teams: Intended scope and use Updated health apps Clinical safety, health apps and AI Different places, different features Monitoring clinical safety He then offers some potential solutions to these problems: Continuous assessment of health apps Centralise clinical safety, don’t localise Differentiated approach to clinical safety Aggregated incident reporting
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Content ArticleIn the UK, over 26% of adults take prescription medications and in the US the figure is around 66%. But up to 50% of patients fail to take their medications as prescribed. As healthcare steadily pivots towards digital health, Dr. Bertalan Meskó and Dr. Pranavsingh Dhunno ask how new technologies can improve medication management. In this article for The Medical Futurist, they look at the importance of empowering patients to reduce the risk of medication errors. They highlight five medication management technologies that could help patients improve their own medication safety: Smart pill dispensers which deliver audible and visual cues to remind patients to take medications at the right time Medication reminder apps which help manage medication regimens and can sync the data with a caregiver or doctor Digital therapeutics which support patients to make treatment decisions Digital pills which integrate tracking technology into pills themselves Telemedical platforms that allow patients to request advice or raise concerns with their doctors.
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Content ArticleBabylon is a US company that offers AI-powered online apps to health systems. Several UK hospital trusts have used Babylon apps to triage patients and reduce attendances at accident and emergency departments since 2018. In this blog, Nicole Kobie, contributing editor at technology website Wired, looks at Babylon's recent cancellation of its last contract with an NHS trust. She highlights that although some welcome Babylon's exit from the NHS, the disruption caused by the apps' implementation was costly and has left some trusts with large bills. The apps also triggered complaints from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) after concerns that Babylon's AI was missing signs of serious illness. The article highlights the need to carefully consider patient safety and cost-effectiveness when introducing new technologies into health systems, and take a slower approach to rolling out AI innovations.
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Research shows that poor handover in hospitals puts patients at risk of severe harm
Anonymous posted an article in Handover
Research undertaken by digital health platform, CAREFUL shows that handover in hospitals is the cause of frequent and severe harm to patients. -
Content ArticleDespite the increasing availability of mobile health services, clinical engagement remains minimal. This study from Leigh et al. aimed to identify and weight barriers to and drivers of health app use among health care professions (HCPs) from the UK. They found an NHS stamp of approval, published studies, and recommendations from fellow HCPs are significant facilitators of digital prescribing, whereas increasing costs and patient age are significant barriers to engagement. These findings suggest that demonstrating assurances of health apps and supporting both the dissemination and peer-to-peer recommendation of evidence-based technologies are critical if the NHS is to achieve its long-term digital transformation ambitions.
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Content ArticleMedical records include any information about your physical or mental health recorded by a healthcare professional. This includes hospital staff, GPs, dentists and opticians. This page on The Patients Association website explains how to get copies of your medical records in England and Wales. It provides information on: How to get your GP records Using the NHS App to access records A guide to formally requesting medical records Requesting the records of someone who has died Seeing a child’s medical records Requesting the records of a vulnerable adult More information on medical records Complaints
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Content ArticleThe Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a new report on lessons learned from the pandemic to support the future of digital change in health and care. Following a consultation process with 100 of its members, PRSB has published the report examining the digital transformation of services during the pandemic and it recommends how the system can use the lessons in the future. The Digital Health and Care and COVID-19 report recommendations include building on the enthusiasm for digital but reviewing and evaluating safety implications, particularly for remote and virtual consultation where both clinical risk and patient access need to be addressed. The report also includes a focus on quality in practice, including the use of apps and other digital technologies.
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Content ArticleConsumer-focused digital healthcare apps are widely used for health maintenance. This scoping review from Millenson et al. examined evidence on interactive direct-to-consumer diagnostic applications and found a lack of robustness on evaluation methods.
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Content ArticleIn this month's Letter from America, Lorri Zipperer discusses cautions and capabilities associated with healthcare technologies. Letter from America is a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting new accomplishments and patient safety challenges in the United States. This is Lorri's last blog in the series and we'd like to thank Lorri for sharing her insights with us over the last 12 months. Read here all the Letter from America blogs
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Content ArticleThis report has been developed by the Patient Coalition for AI, Data and Digital Tech in Health, which aims to unite representatives from patient advocacy groups, including Patient Safety Learning, Royal Colleges, medical charities, industry and other stakeholders committed to ensuring that patient interests. The report highlights that uptake of digital health technologies has been limited, while patient experience of technologies including video conferencing and mobile apps has been mixed. Although patients strongly believe in the value of digital health, there are still significant concerns about using it, particularly around data collection and sharing.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning's Chief Digital Officer, Clive Flashman, discusses the patient safety concerns around the thousands of health and care apps in app stores today, and how we can ensure patients are kept safe.
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Content ArticleThe Professioan Records Standards Body are a unique collaboration of groups representing those who receive and provide health and social care across the UK, as well as those providing the IT systems that support care. Emma Robertson is the patient lead on the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB), work to accredit apps and digital health technologies. She speaks to PRSB about why she got involved with the work and the benefits and challenges of using apps to support health and care.
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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. -
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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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 ArticleTo improve their time to sepsis treatment, Homerton University Hospital (HUH) developed the Action Card App.
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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 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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