This article from the Courier Mail (Queensland) is interesting as a sign that telemonitoring technology is creeping into the awareness of professionals outside the immediate health and care fields.
A good sign! For example, MedAmerica has developed an affordable new type of long term care insurance policy (CareDirections® Simplicity) which is unique in that an insured could use benefits to purchase whatever is needed with no restrictions, including home… Read moreTelehealth and telecare starting to be recognised by US health insurers
Alertacall today announced the extension until 10.00 pm of the availability of its system to confirm that clients have returned home. Alertacall’s CEO James Batchelor said “We have listened to people who run services for people with learning disabilities in… Read moreAlertacall extends safety confirmation service hours
It’s a ‘web-based, password protected, flexible and practical learning experience that guides you through a number of assessment scenarios based on 4 differing levels of unmet need and risks to independence. The result being that, through role play and virtual… Read moreTunstall's online telecare training tool released
Satisfyingly lengthy and general article summarising points from the recently published book Home Telehealth: Connecting Care within the Community, edited by Wootton, Dimmick and Kvedar, though not much new for Telecare Aware readers.
Boston Scientific Corporation and GE have been trumpeting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of the BSC’s LATITUDE® 2.0 “the first and only remote monitoring system to provide clinicians with direct device data integration capability into GE’s Centricity… Read moreNew Lattitude system home cardiac monitor – too much lattitude?
The Department of Health’s call last week for demonstrator sites to bring the benefits of whole systems to people with long term conditions should receive a warm welcome from the telecare community. Read the DH webpage but don’t miss Annex A… Read moreDepartment of Health ups stakes on benefits of telecare
The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) in its report Time to Care? (18 Oct 2006) highlights the good telecare work that has been undertaken in Sandwell for the past few years. Of particular note it says that “The data… Read moreCSCI highlights good telecare practice in Sandwell (UK)
London Borough of Newham’s ambitious telecare plans, which put other councils’ Preventative Technology Grant-based strategies in the shade (see Telecare Aware report 19 July 2006), have had their official launch. Mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, said: “NeAT is a… Read moreNewham goes NeAT
16 months ago, when Telecare Aware started tracking international stories about the Columba phone-bracelet for people with dementia, no one in the UK had heard of it. Now, its developers, Medical Intelligence Technologies, have signed a ‘letter of intent’ to… Read moreMedical Intelligence Technologies gets 'all the reassurance it needs'
