‘Clinically unsafe’ Health Help Now app set to be deleted

Health Help Now will no longer be available to users from the end of June following the decision to decommission
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Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’

Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data
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Mobile health apps news in brief

This month’s mobile apps news round-up features news that the majority of UK people believe their contact-tracing data will be
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NHSX publishes £3m tender to help phase out pagers

The solutions must enable secure messaging; image sharing; staff directory linked to the NHS.net address book; and calls.
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NHSX ‘knew contact-tracing app wouldn’t work on iPhones in April’

Apple and Google's APIs only work with a decentralised system, which leaves many iPhones incompatible with the NHS centralised contact-tracing
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Covid-19 tracking tool appears on smartphones – but it’s not an app

The new exposure notification settings are part of an update to the operating systems, which will enable an app to
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Firebase URL ‘leaked technical information on Babylon’s GP at Hand’

The database was being used to store testing information for the company’s technology and GP at Hand, revealing the success
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NHS Covid-19 data store fails to collect and analyse BAME data

The data protection impact assessment (DPIA) on the data store revealed that health information on the virus would not be
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Government abandons contact-tracing app for Apple and Google’s tech

A parallel version of the NHS contact-tracing app using Apple and Google’s technology had been in the pipeline since early
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Worcester Acute Hospitals deploys digital pre-op assessments

Using Intouch with Health’s Synopsis, the system aims to increase the trusts pre-operative capacity and enable patients to see the
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