Digital Health May 28, 2020
Digital Health’s latest mobile apps round-up features news that Patient Access has passed 10 million UK users and Pando Health has been added to the NHS Apps library.
Patient Access passes 10 million UK users
Ten million NHS patients are now registered on the Patient Access app, powered by EMIS, following a spike in users due to coronavirus.
Registrations to the app, which offers clinically-authored health information and GP services including video appointments, escalated rapidly in March and April with 650,000 new sign-ups.
It’s coronavirus symptom checker, added in mid-March, has seen more than 700,000 views.
Dr Sarah Jarvis, clinical director at Patient, said: “It’s clear from these statistics that the pandemic has rapidly changed attitudes to digital healthcare –...