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UK doctors prescribe smartphone apps

Lars BevangerMarch 5, 2012

The British government is telling doctors to promote health-related apps. Some experts believe it will be helpful to promote fitness, but also other diseases that require monitoring, like diabetes.

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Family doctors usually prescribe drugs, but in the UK they’re now being encouraged to prescribe smartphone apps to their patients as well. Last month the British minister of health told general practitioners - or GPs - to encourage their patients to use of free or cheap health related apps. The aim: to help people manage their own health and save them unnecessary visits to the doctor. Lars Bevanger reports from Manchester.