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My Kafkaesque apps nightmare

Posted by: Sarah Wood, Posted on: 12 September 2013 - Categories: Services and products

Over the last few months we’ve been inundated with freedom of information (FOI) requests and enquiries about native mobile applications and medical devices. To head-off some of this correspondence I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, …

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Maps and apps for health and care - what next?

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 29 February 2012 - Categories: Services and products

When we launched our Maps and Apps crowd-sourcing exercise, I'm not sure we fully appreciated quite what we were starting. We had a neat internally-rhyming name for it, some excellent people involved, and we knew that we could find examples …

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Maps and apps for health - a call for ideas and examples

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 22 August 2011 - Categories: Engagement

Smartphones changed the way I use the internet. My previous online behaviour seems almost quaint now. Online maps, for example, were already pretty useful before I could access them on my phone. But a map on my phone - that …

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