Queen’s University Belfast is researching ways to improve the signal transmission of wireless body worn sensors so that, in a few years, they will be much more efficient and therefore use less power and be more comfortable. The implications are
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Monthly Archives May 2008
Toumaz co-founder elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Toumaz Technology Limited’s Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Professor Chris Toumazou has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society – the highest honour in the UK scientific system. The Royal Society is the national academy of science
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Conference: Enabling People with Long Term Conditions (neurological)
This conference, organised by Innervate in association with The British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine; The Community Therapists Network; The Telecare Services Association; The Primary Care Neurology Society. promises to be interactive and interesting. View the programme here. (The organisers don’t
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Quest Diagnostics links up with Google Health
I’ve been generally keeping away from Google Health stories as the issues are well covered in the US-focused and highly recommended blog e-CareManagement. However, this link up between Google-hosted health records and a diagnostic test and record provider (read press
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Developing successful business cases for telehealth
Unfortunately, according to the Royal Society of Medicine’s website, there are now no places available for this event on Friday 30 May in London, but readers may like to download the programme to see who is speaking about what (speaker
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WSD Sites: Newham publicity starts to roll
According to this item from the local newspaper, Newham Recorder online, “About 2,000 people will take part in two new initiatives – telecare and telehealth.” The only trouble is you will need to take a trip over to Newham and
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Telehealthcare: the long road from concept to reality
Presenting the experiences of her company at the eHealth 2008 meeting in Slovenia, Rolien de Jong, innovations manager at The Hague-based Meavita Healthcare, pointed out that, to make the breakthrough, it’s the providers who are taking the risk – not
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Telecare: building momentum in the UK
Tola Sergeant from consultancy Ovum takes a positive look across developments in the UK but strikes a note of caution in the penultimate paragraph. Read Telecare: building momentum in the UK here.
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Revolutionising future care
Revolutionising future care the Tunstall way. Summary of its ADLife system in The Engineer Online.
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"A pan-European eHealth infrastructure would revolutionise healthcare"
Dr. Karl Stroetmann, senior research associate of the research and consulting firm empirica reflects on the European Commission’s soon-to-be-launched eHealth project for patients travelling within the EU. Item from HealthTech Wire. [If you have telecare or telehealth users who wish
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