Around half of adults in England have access to digital healthcare via the NHS login, according to the latest statistics from NHS Digital.
NHS login, the service which supports the NHS App, now has almost 28 million users – a rise from around 2.2 million in September 2020.
The online service, managed by NHS Digital, provides people with a single point of access to digital health and care websites...
There are plenty of health apps out there, but recent studies continue to indicate that only a small number are backed by evidence. In March, an analysis published in the Nature Digital Medicine journal found that only two out of 73 mental health apps studied offered “direct evidence associated with app use” – and even these fell short “of high-quality evidence obtained, for example, from...
London Ambulance Service is enabling its medics to securely view patient medical data on the move via iPads.
A 16-week pilot being run by NHS Digital, launched the mobile summary care record system (Mobile SCRa) to around 60 ambulance service staff in Camden last week.
Medics will be able to use the NHS Identity authentication system to remotely access summary care records (SCRs), electronic...
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) will launch a new wide-ranging app in December that allows all patients to book appointments, consult their medical records, and more, the government agency announced last week. Though many of the features are already available online, the new app will bring them together into one mobile access point.
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