The European Commission has published a new strategy paper Accelerating the Development of the eHealth Market in Europe, aimed at accelerating the growth of the e-health market by removing legal and regulatory barriers and promoting interoperability over the next two
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Monthly Archives January 2008
BBC Radio 4 series: Care in the UK
With programmes running every day from 7 to 31 January, this series is taking a long hard look at care for children and older and disabled people in the UK. It clearly has the attention of the Minister and, indeed,
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Worksop lady owes life to telecare carbon monoxide monitor (UK)
Mrs Carney’s niece said the story could have turned out completely differently had it not been for the detector. “It was frightening to think what might have happened, as my aunt had been sleeping downstairs next to the kitchen at
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Telehealth and telecare at CES 2008
Events - old and Latest News.
Continua Alliance, Pointers to the future, telecare, telehealth, telemedicine, and US.
Continua Alliance, Pointers to the future, telecare, telehealth, telemedicine, and US.
CES – not Community Equipment Services, as UK readers might suppose, but the Consumer Electronics Show – the huge international showcase for all that is new and cool in consumer electronics held in Las Vegas last week, 7th – 10th
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Telehealth Solutions Surgery Pod endorsed by EMIS (UK)
I’m sorry to disappoint Star Trek fans, but this is ‘surgery’ as in ‘GP’s surgery’ (US: ‘doctor’s office’) and ‘Pod’ as in ‘iPod’ rather than ‘starship’ – but as there are no product photos on the Telehealth Solutions’ website, I
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Distribution of telemedicine in Japan
Telemedicine is widely distributed in Japan with most serving rural populations. Between 1997 and 2004 there was a four-fold increase in home health and telepathology. Link to article abstract.
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Telecare and health monitoring gaining public recognition
In another sign of growing public awareness, here are two blog postings inspired by the writers’ encounters with remote monitoring technology. Web Tools for the Sandwich Generation Wireless technology played a big role in my surgery
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IgeaCare Systems appoints telemedicine industry veteran, Dr Gaur, president of its Healthanywhere Division
Dr. Gaur founded Viterion and has been Chariman of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). The IgeaCare Systems press release throws light on why Bayer Healthcare, Baxter and Panasonic, which are not names that immediately spring to mind in connection with
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Broomwell wins HSJ 2007 Award for Improving Care with E-Technology using Aerotel's wireless cardiac monitoring devices (UK)
Aerotel Medical Systems congratulates its UK business partner, Broomwell Healthwatch, for winning the Health Service Journal 2007 Award for Improving Care with E-Technology. The award is given each year to healthcare organisations that demonstrate innovation and outstanding performance in the
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eHealthopinion – 30 day demo launched (India – international)
India-based Medisoft Telemedicine Pvt. Ltd. has been promoting its remote second opinion service ‘eHealthopinion’ for some time but has recently introduced a 30 day demo for which the registration form is at www.ehealthopinion.com/demo. Before leaping into the demo one would
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