Useful Resources
The links below will take you to carefully selected resources where you can learn more about what digital health means, heart disease, and our project. We only give links to organisations we trust so you know the information is reliable.
Topics
Digital Health
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre explains what digital health and care is.
The Nuffield Trust is an independent health think tank. Read about their plans for digital health across UK health systems here.
Read about the World Health Organisation’s strategy for developing and implementing “eHealth services”.
Heart Health
How your heart works
The British Heart Foundation describe how your heart and circulatory system works, and how problems with the heart can develop.
Preventing heart disease
The National Health Service explains some of the ways that heart disease can be prevented here.
Risk Factors
High blood pressure (Hypertension)
Heart conditions
Here is some information from the British Heart Foundation and NHS about different heart conditions.
Abnormal heart rhythms (Arrhythmia)
Heart attack (Myocardial Infarction)
Treatment
There are different treatments available to people who have heart disease. Some of these are described by the British Heart Foundation.
Cardiac rehabilitation can help you recover after you’ve had a heart problem.
What is a Priority Setting Project?
The James Lind Alliance bring patients, carers and clinicians together to identify and prioritise the most important unanswered questions about areas of health care.
This makes research funders aware of the issues that matter most to the people who need to use health care services in their everyday lives.
The James Lind Alliance explain what a priority setting project is here.