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25th May 2018

GDPR is live: why we celebrate

Yvonne Adebola

Here at medCrowd, protecting information is at the heart of what we do, so we’re really pleased about the GDPR regulations. The ICO enforced guideline...

24th May 2018

medCrowd birthday celebration

Yvonne Adebola

It’s been one year since the birth of medCrowd, the instant messenger for health and care. To celebrate we will be hosting our first birthday celebrat...

4th May 2018

medCrowd recognised in NHS digital health report

Yvonne Adebola

It has been an exciting week for medCrowd, after we were hailed as a case study in a key paper on how new technology can renew the NHS launched by Ala...

17th April 2018

medCrowd feature update: Mobile phone sign up, data compression and close a conversation.

Dr Felix Jackson

I'd like to say a huge thank you to our fabulous tech team for working days and nights to refactor medCrowd to enable members to join with their mobil...

16th April 2018

Outage planned at 23:00 (UK time) tonight!

Dr Felix Jackson

Our tech team having been working incredibly hard over the last few months on another suite of features that have been requested by you (more info to...

20th February 2018

medCrowd feature update: Simpler, filtered and chronological.

Dr Felix Jackson

We have just released a new version of medCrowd which is much simpler, includes the ability to filter conversations and has messages listed in chronol...

19th December 2017

A big year is (almost) gone, welcome 2018

Dr Felix Jackson

Twenty-seventeen has been an incredible year, we have seen many changes and updates and we definitely expect more to come in the New Year. This year h...

14th August 2017

NHS England causes confusion about WhatsApp

Dr Felix Jackson

In a bid to clarify the NHS stance on the use of messaging apps by health and care workers, an NHS England spokesperson was quoted by the HSJ today sa...

8th August 2017

medCrowd in the news!

Tea Meneghetti

WhatsApp, Messaging Apps and the future of Digital Health in the UK Lloyd Price, Healthcare Digital, 28th May 2018 Jeremy Hunt backs calls for ‘WhatsA...

4th August 2017

Why did we make medCrowd compliant?*

Jessica Thilaganathan

There have been many discussions in recent weeks around the use of WhatsApp in the NHS and the risks non-compliant technology pose to confidential pat...
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