{"id":183209,"date":"2014-06-04T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfordhealth-it.co.uk\/library\/?page_id=183209"},"modified":"2021-04-30T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T10:09:47","slug":"using-technology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/library\/cpd-zone\/cpd-by-topic\/using-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Using technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Technology is important part of the future of health services, in particular primary care including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/gp-online-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GP Online services<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/tecs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS<\/a>), public health interactive tools such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/south-east\/2018\/09\/04\/free-online-heart-age-test-gives-early-warning-of-heart-attack-and-stroke-risk-to-people-in-the-south-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heart Age Test<\/a> app.<\/p>\n<p>In its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Digital Doctor?<\/span> survey Ipsos have examined attitudes and behaviours of primary care physicians in 18 key countries with insights on artificial intelligence, telemedicine, social media use, and recommendation of apps\/wearables. See the highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/connectedhealth.ipsos.com\/digital-doctor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsemployers.org\/case-studies-and-resources\/2016\/11\/social-media-toolkit-for-the-nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social media toolkit for the NHS<\/a> from NHS Employers contains all you need as a communications lead, team or organisation to review and refresh how you are using social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medical Apps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New digital apps and tools are empowering people to take control of their health and improving patient care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsx.nhs.uk\/key-tools-and-info\/designing-and-building-products-and-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Technology Assessment Criteria for health and social care (DTAC)<\/a> will form a baseline for digital health and care technologies enabling both patients and the system to adopt relevant, safe and innovative technologies much more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/apps-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS Apps library<\/a>\u00a0 includes health and wellbeing apps which have been through an <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.nhs.uk\/services\/nhs-apps-library\/guidance-for-health-app-developers-commissioners-and-assessors\/how-we-assess-health-apps-and-digital-tools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assessment process<\/a>.\u00a0 As of 1 November 2020, assessment of apps for the library\u00a0will be carried out by NHS X.<\/p>\n<p>Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications (ORCHA) carry out independent and impartial reviews of health and care related apps &#8211; search their <a href=\"https:\/\/appfinder.orcha.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">medical app finder.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"CjVfdc\">\u200bLooking for some apps to support your learning? 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