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<p>The Department and the National Health Service are prioritising the improvement
of connectivity and digitisation across all aspects of diagnostics in order to drive
efficiency, deliver seamless care across traditional boundaries and facilitate remote
reporting.</p><p>The first four phases of the Artificial Intelligence in Health and
Care award included innovations in remote diagnostics, including the Neuronostics
Limited smartphone-based app which can receive electroencephalogram recordings from
wireless headsets to assist with assessing epilepsy treatment; Senti Tech Limited’s
project enabling remote chest examination for respiratory patients through sensors
embedded into a jacket; and Healthy.io UK Limited’s smartphone albuminuria self-test,
which uses a home test kit and a mobile app to allow patients to self-test at home
with clinical grade results.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">NHSX is supporting the
COVID Oximetry @home services which remotely monitor the oxygen saturation levels
of patients with COVID-19 symptoms. This offers both technology-enabled and standard
services with paper diary and telephone check-in for those without smartphones. In
some areas, devices are provided for people to use in their own homes. NHSX are also
supporting the scaling of remote monitoring approaches across the seven regions in
England. This includes a focus on vulnerable groups such as those living in care homes.</ins></p>
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