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NHS England launches library for accredited mobile health apps

By Jonah Comstock 09:20 am March 24, 2015

Ieso Digital Health, one of the apps in the NHS's new library. The National Health Service in the UK is taking steps to create a curated database of government-approved mobile health apps, starting in the area of mental health. NHS England launched a library of five approved apps on its NHS Choices website, which gets 40 million visits per month, according to the NHS. As a large public health...

UK government weighs digital tools for mental health

By Jonah Comstock 02:08 am February 5, 2013

A report from the London School of Economics and Political Science recently found that only about a quarter of people with depression or anxiety-related mental health problems in the UK receive treatment. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) sees potential in turning to mobile and digital health tools to solve that access problem and to cut costs, according to a new discussion paper recently...