TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 549 LP - 549 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2018-053894 VL - 94 IS - 8 AU - Jackie A Cassell Y1 - 2018/12/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/94/8/549.abstract N2 - Since the UK’s Venereal Diseases Act of 1917, the burden of STI has fluctuated as described by Mohammed et al in a review surveillance data.1 While technology has changed some aspects of sexual health, many others remain all too familiar.In this this month’s editorial Jo Gibbs2 identifies key areas in which the current legislative and regulatory framework for digital healthcare will have an impact. We end with an example of such an advance: the development of digital media to communicate test results, an area where such applications may bring improvement in privacy and in patient/user control over access. In a research report, Gibbs et al 3 also assess a service of this kind developed in … ER -