Scottish Health App Becomes App Store Hit

A new health app for iPhone and iPad produced by the Scottish NHS has become one of the most popular medical apps in the Apple App Store.

The app - called SIGN - tells patients what kind of medical treatment they should expect for different illnesses.

It's the idea of Prof John Kinsella, who works in intensive care at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, who says he needed quicker access to NHS treatment guidelines:

"The problem is that clinical guidance is sometimes in a paper form which is difficult to find, or it can be accessed on the internet which means logging in and often you've got to log out of some other programme first," he said.

"In that period you are losing valuable time when you should be doing some other task. It is basically a delay, and sometimes a delay prevents you from doing it at all."

The free app has been downloaded more than 8,000 even though it hasn't been advertised or promoted.

You can get it in the Apple App Store.

(Via: BBC)

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