A new app launched by the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) is helping patients care for themselves after being discharged from hospital. It’s called CoHealth and provides useful information on after-care instructions related to their condition. “It’s just got a wealth of information for patients (regarding) discharge information,” says Betty Oldershaw, clinical informatics and transformation lead at CKHA who is also Region 1 board representative for RNAO. The app is also easy to navigate, she adds. Users can input their follow-up appointments and medications they are taking, along with reminders about after-care tasks such as changing bandages. CKHA is one of 16 health systems using the app. That number is expected to rise to 30 by the end of the year. (The Chatham Daily News, Sept. 25)