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Apps and online healthcare support

Mike Craven and mental health digital technologies

Healthcare consultations and treatments are traditionally face-to-face. Remote interventions have the potential to preserve resources and tailor care to individual need.  These can range from monitoring vital signs remotely, to digital therapies and supporting people in adhering to treatments. 

Mental health and dementia

Older person's hands - from www.pixabay.com
We have a large programme of activity focussing on mental health, noteably through NIHR MindTech MedTech and In-vitro diagnostic Cooperative. Here, we are identifying unmet clinical needs in mental health and dementia and collaborating on developing and testing a range of new technologies, and providing advice and knowledge exchange to help increase their adoption.

Current areas of focus include technologies and evaluations of:

  • dementia

  • mood disorders (such as depression and anxiety)

  • neurodevelopmental disorders (such as Tourette Syndrome and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)

  • young people's mental health

Projects dealing with patient support at home include:

Key research groups and centres of excellence

MindTech

Institute for Mental Health

Mixed Reality Laboratory

Human Factors Research Group

 

Increasing physical activity

Exercising teenager -from www.pixabay.com

Keeping active is important for people of all ages and abilities, from the workforce, to people with chronic conditions. Digital technology can provide additional support needed to motivate or enable them to participate in exercise effectively.

Current projects in this area include:

Key research groups and centres of excellence

 

Digital Innovations in Healthcare and Education (DICE) Research Group

Human Factors Research Group

Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute

Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training ‘My Life in Data’

Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics

 
 

Management of chronic conditions

Asthma inhaler- downloaded from Pixabay

We are developing digital technologies to to help patients manage their chronic conditions.

The ‘MyAsthma’ app - devised by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) with asthma researchers at the Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, allows people with asthma to track and manage their condition. The app can also be used by carers who can track up to five people’s conditions on their smartphone. (Expert: Dominick Shaw)

Find out more about MyAsthma

 

Workforce health and wellbeing

Testing handheld technology in wards

Digital interventions have been developed to promote health and wellbeing in NHS employees, including frontline care staff.

Projects in this area include:

HAWN Training (Health and Wellbeing for Nurses and Midwives).

This online digital tool for professional development is all about maintaining mental and physical wellbeing during work as a nurse or midwife, in particular for those working shifts.

http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/peopleandculture/2017/11/02/hawn-online-training-nurses-midwives/


Key research groups and centres of excellence


Digital Innovations in Healthcare and Education (DICE) Research Group

Human Factors Research Group