SMASH Care Community Introduces Refero’s WebChat Platform
A UK care provider collaborative, the SMASH Care Community, has deployed a webchat messaging solution from Refero, that allows patients to contact practices without emailing…
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Aetna Expands Digital Services to Help Battle the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19
Aetna International is expanding its virtual health offerings with a new partnership with Wysa, a confidential and anonymous mental well-being app and service, as part…
Redesigned Cancer Pathway Delivers Faster Results Using Innovative Imaging Tech
Patients who do and don’t have bowel cancer are notified much sooner as radiologists at the UK’s University Hospitals of North Midlands transform pathways and…
4 Ways Telemedicine Innovation Improves Patient Satisfaction & Emergency Department Utilisation
Healthcare systems across the US have lately shown remarkable interest in the digital sphere, specifically telemedicine. The utilisation of telemedicine has rapidly increased over the…
Caidr App to Helps People Better Understand Impact of Social Distancing
Clinova has released the latest version of its healthcare app, Caidr, which allows users to report any COVID-19 symptoms, and provides an innovative way to…
‘Together, we can overcome COVID-19’
As the world faces its biggest pandemic within the century, now is the right moment for the International Hospital Federation (IHF) to immensely praise the…
Why Vaccine Hesitancy is One of the Ten Main Threats to Global Health
In 2019 the World Health Organization included vaccine hesitancy as one of the ten main threats to global health in 2019 due to the global…
Personalisation in Healthcare: Combining Bedside Manner with IT
In the latest of a series of articles Alison Houghton, of Progress, discusses the ways in which technology can personalise the healthcare experience. Population diversity…
Why Diabetes Education isn’t One-Size-Fits-All
Structured diabetes education works. Evidence increasingly shows that timely, relevant and accessible educational programmes can play a significant role in helping type 2 diabetes (T2D)…
GPs Alerted 5 Million Times in the Past Year to Recommend Patient Self-care
GPs and other prescribers, in England, have been prompted more than 5 million times in the last 12 months to encourage patients to take action…