ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications has developed a safe, simple and highly effective way to validate health apps and provide a convenient rating scale to guide clinicians and the general public.
ORCHA also empowers health and care professionals to identify, engage with and actively promote apps that will have a positive impact on their patients and service users health and wellbeing outcomes.
The report aims to highlight the emerging role of technology in transforming social care services and enabling care and health integration - including case studies of the introduction and use of technology to deliver improved outcomes for social care service users and, in the context of integration, patients. It also showcases the current and future roles of technology in facilitating demand management, delivering cost efficiencies, and mitigating against systemic risks.
REGASSA is a randomized controlled study performed in primary care to study the effects of 12 weeks of Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) and physical exercise (PE) compared with treatment as usual (TAU) in patients with mild-to-moderate mental ill-health. The present study aimed to examine the results of these treatment alternatives on psychological functioning, stress, and sleep disturbances. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
Previous meta-analyses indicate that computerized cognitive training (CCT) is a safe and efficacious intervention for cognition in older adults. However, efficacy varies across populations and cognitive domains, and little is known about the efficacy of CCT in people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. : Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Do you know an NHS colleague who deserves recognition for how they have led digital transformation, or innovated within their organisation, for the benefit of colleagues and patients?
Why not nominate them for an NHS Digital Pioneer Award?
The NHS Digital Pioneer Awards – coordinated by DigitalHealth.London with the support of NHS England – recognise courage, progressiveness and leadership in digitally enabled transformation.
The Professional’s Choice Award is one of the Health Tech and You Award categories that highlights a health technology which is highly valued by health and care professionals. In partnership with Roy Lilley’s pioneering Academy of Fabulous Stuff, together we are looking for the person-focused health technology which professionals think has made a significant difference to care. It does not have to be high-tech but must be patient focused.
Background: Treatment for mental illness has shifted from focusing purely on treatment of symptoms to focusing on personal recovery. Patient activation is an important component of the recovery journey. Patient portals have shown promise to increase activation in primary and acute care settings, but the benefits to tertiary level mental health care remain unknown.
Background: Diabetes in pregnancy is a global problem. Technological innovations present exciting opportunities for novel approaches to improve clinical care delivery for gestational and other forms of diabetes in pregnancy.
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of the Virtual Hope Box (VHB), a smartphone app to improve stress coping skills, suicidal ideation, and perceived reasons for living among patients at elevated risk of suicide and self-harm. : Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Innovative video consultations already piloted in Millom are being extended to Haverigg prison. The aim of the project is to reduce the number of journeys from the prison to the nearest Accident and Emergency Department at Furness General Hospital, which is a 45 minute drive away.
Haverigg Prison is a Category C men's prison, located in the village of Haverigg in Cumbria, which generates an increasing number of journeys each year to Furness General Hospital Emergency Department.
This study investigated moderators of intervention response in a fully automated Internet-based monitoring and feedback intervention (‘Featback’) with different levels of therapist support for individuals with eating disorder (ED) symptoms. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
This is the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate non-inferiority of Prolonged Exposure (PE) delivered via home-based telehealth (HBT) compared to standard in-person (IP) PE. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
While interesting, this was a highly artificial scenario in a very small number of healthy people. It is far too early to say whether this approach would be effective in the long-term.
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) delivered via telephone by an IPT trained certified nurse-midwife helps to reduce symptoms of postpartum depression.
Designing studies that overcome barriers to participation, use a wait-list control group or cross-over design can ensure that studies have an adequate sample are ethically responsible and generate high quality data. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Telford & Wrekin Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service (DARS) launches digital health programme Breaking Free Online to broaden access to addiction treatment.
The authors point out that whereas digital technology is transforming almost all areas of our lives – enabling us to order shopping online or book airline tickets, for example – its use in the NHS is still limited. They explore the evidence to date from seven types of technology for patients in primary care, including online triage programmes such as symptom-checkers, so-called ‘wearable technology’ like Fitbits, online GP appointment booking, video consultations, and health-related apps.