Is there an app for that?
Have you used a mobile phone app to keep fit, find a hospital or help manage an illness? Or do you have an idea for an app that could help you? You can now recommend your favourite health apps, and suggest ideas for new ones, on the Department's website.
Secretary of State Andrew Lansley visited Evelina Children鈥檚 Hospital in London today, where launched a call for ideas, to support the use of existing mobile phone apps and health information maps, as well as encourage people to put forward ideas for new ones.
You can also vote for your favourite ideas as suggested by other people.聽We want to find examples of the best, most popular existing health apps, and hear your ideas for apps that haven鈥檛 been developed yet.
We want to hear from anyone with an interest, whether you鈥檙e a patient, doctor, nurse or an app developer.
At the end of September a panel of judges will choose their favourite apps and ideas from the most popular entries. 皇冠体育app judges include Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Julie Meyer, CEO Ariadne Capital and a 鈥榙ragon鈥� for the BBC鈥檚 online Dragon鈥檚 Den, Jenny Ritchie-Campbell, Director for Innovation at Macmillan Cancer Support and Dr Shaibal Roy.
Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for Health, said:
鈥淲e want to give people better access to information that will put them in control of their health and help make informed choices about their healthcare.
鈥淥ver the next six weeks, we want to hear from patients, health professionals and budding app developers on their ideal new app. This is a unique opportunity for the NHS and those who develop apps to not only showcase their work but bring to life new ideas and realise true innovation in healthcare.鈥�
Dr Shaibal Roy, NHS Future Forum:
鈥淚鈥檓 proud to be part of this call for ideas from patients, their families, the public and frontline health care professionals. Useful and easy to use smartphone apps and information maps will surely support both patients and clinicians in their shared decisions to improve outcomes. This is an open invitation to tell us about apps and maps already in use, and new apps and maps that are needed. 皇冠体育app outcomes will be transparently shared.
鈥淚 hope this work will help the NHS understand completely new ways to help improve outcomes for individuals and their families. 皇冠体育appre are inspiring apps and incredible ideas that have never before been gathered and shared nationally. We hope to accomplish this quickly, and in doing so, build a community of champions to explore this particular view of the future.鈥�