With the explosion in medical apps available on the app stores, it’s not surprising that there are more ‘digital tools’ available to help healthcare professionals carry out everyday tasks. As with medical apps for patients there are thousands out there which aim to create efficiencies and improve access to resources on the go and we’ve […]
If your app, website or service needs to interact with NHS data then you may well need to be connected to the N3 network. As specialist providers of health related apps and websites, Genetic Digital’s customers often fall in to this category with web services we develop (which are often the backend of an app) […]
Medication non adherence is a significant problem, it always has been and it will continue to be so with an estimated cost to the NHS of £600m* a year! So what can be done to improve patient outcomes? Changing patient behaviour is key to this and there have been a number of clinically led studies […]
Are you getting Siri-ous? Siri is Apple’s new voice recognition app that allows users to control their smartphones using speech by talking directly into their handset. I’m sure you’ve all see the latest iPhone TV ads showing how you can check the weather, search for restaurants, set reminders and even write and send emails. So, […]
A QR Code – Quick Response Code – looks like this. They are becoming increasingly more popular as an easy way of storing different types of information like URL links, contact information and text that can be read and stored by a smart phone. Why is this important? When used in conjunction with more traditional […]
A total of 91% of young adults in the UK are connected to social networking sites. According to new research from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), half of all web users are also accessing the internet via their mobile phone. The ONS opinions survey also reveals that 45% of internet users have accessed the […]