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New Discover Digital webinar 5th September
We will be hosting another webinar on Thursday 5th September at 10.30am – Discover Digital with Carmen Paputa-Dutu Carmen will introduce this year’s Discover Digital event including key lessons learned from last year’s event. Carmen will share some of the specific feedback from older people around what matters to them when it comes to using…
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1,000th eHealth intervention for mPower
The team have celebrated its 1000th digital health intervention, meaning the project is well on the way to delivering the targets set for the end of 2021. Daphne Nisbet, from Wigtownshire, is one of the 1,000 people who has been helped by the project and is successfully using Florence, a text-based medication reminder system to…
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A new digital health intervention for South Leitrim
In South Leitrim HSE CH01, the Chronic Pain Management Team based in Sligo University Hospital referred 3 of their clients to mPower. They were interested in the possibility of being able to have a health consultation from the comfort of their own home and avoid having to travel to the hospital. The mPower team were…
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Save the Date for the latest webinar
Home and mobile health monitoring – Wed 7th August 10am Home and Mobile Health Monitoring is one of the Digital / eHealth Intervention options which the mPower project can utilise where appropriate. We are delighted to be joined for a webinar on 7 August at 10am on this topic by: Morag Hearty, Lanarkshire Technology Enabled…
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Supporting International Social Prescribing Day
mPower’s Community Navigators are using Social Prescribing every day to give people better choices about how they can connect with their local communities. Social interaction can positively impact our health and well-being, but often people don’t know what is available locally or how to access groups and resources. The mPower teams give project beneficiaries the…
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Increasing knowledge with learning events
The most recent learning event held last week in Enniskillen saw over 80 guests learn how they can get involved with mPower. During the last six months, around 400 guests have attended learning events hosted by project partners in Sligo, Letterkenny, Drogheda, Newry and now Enniskillen. All events have proved a huge success and generated…
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Increasing knowledge with learning events
The most recent learning event held last week in Enniskillen saw over 80 guests learn how they can get involved with mPower. During the last six months, around 400 guests have attended learning events hosted by project partners in Sligo, Letterkenny, Drogheda, Newry and now Enniskillen. All events have proved a huge success and generated…
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mPower exceeds targets
In 2017, when funding was granted to the mPower project by SEUPB, an eHealth target was set for the end of 2018. The goal was to give 700 people access to eHealth tools to support their health and wellbeing. At the end of 2018 we were delighted to congratulate our partners in exceeding targets and…
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First mPower webinar now available
An important part of the mPower project is to deliver webinars on topics relevant to the project and which provide specialist guidance. The first webinar has been recorded and is now available. In this 25-minute webinar, Anna Terje from the University of the Highlands and Islands explains the aims and objectives of the mPower evaluation, focusing on…
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New report provides mPower with a framework for use of mobile health apps
The Digital Health and Care Institute (DHI) in Glasgow have now published the ‘Report on International Practice on Digital Apps’ The aim was to identify a potential framework to inform how mPower can best develop its approach to mobile apps. The report was commissioned by mPower in 2017 to provide a landscape review of what…
