TelaDoc Medical Services provides telehealth (phone consultation) services to 1.6 million members in the US. IT and the web health service identifier YourCity.MD have announced a partnership to expand the availability to consumers of round-the-clock, non-emergency telephonic based medical consultation
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Monthly Archives June 2008
RAatE conference 2008: Call for papers (UK)
RAatE 2008 will take place in Coventry at the Coventry University Technopark, on 1st December 2008. It’s the UK’s only event focused on all types of assistive technology and telecare project outcomes will be a key theme. If you would
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New glucose sensor technology to connect to mobile phones
Georgetown University, Gentag and Science Applications International Corporation, have joined up to develop a non-invasive method for glucose measurement using disposable skin patches with wireless sensors and cell phones. Story from Wireless Healthcare [URL “http://www.wirelesshealthcare.co.ukRemoveThisFromTheUrl/wh/news/wk26-08-0005.htm” is reported by Google to
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Watch out NHS – they'll get you directly!
Regular Telecare Aware readers may remember the pointer to a tender for consultancy services that NHS Direct put out through the European OJEU process in January. Now, with today’s press release, the reason for it starts to become clear. It
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Intel launches online community for caregivers and professionals (US)
In an interesting further demonstration of its commitment to improving health outcomes, Intel’s Digital Health division has launched ConnectingForCare.com which, with press release ‘licence’ it claims to be “the first online community of its kind for family caregivers, nurses, social
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James Bond saved by telemedicine
The use of telemed technology in the Bond films was down to a Scottish doctor and his team: Mr Ferguson said: “We thought: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if James Bond fell ill and took telemedicine advice from us here in
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XTend Medical predicts good times ahead for its remote monitoring of diabetic patients (US)
The headline about says it all, but here’s a link to the press release if you want to read more.
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Help needed 1: Automatic medicines dispensers
Margaret McArthur, Senior Associate, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham is appealing to any Telecare Aware readers who know of unpublished local trials and evaluations of automatic medicines dispensers “to see if these can shed more light on the
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Help needed 2: Wikipedia telecare entry
There is a small Wikipedia telecare entry that could do with development help from Telecare Aware readers. Anyone can edit a Wikipedia item, there are just some policies and guidelines to follow, which you can read here.
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Scottish telecare benchmarking report demonstrates significant savings
Tucked away on the sidebar of the Scottish Joint Improvement Team’s telecare webpage, is a link to a ‘benchmarking report’ published in February 2008. You can download the report here. Thanks to Ali Rogan, Tunstall’s Marketing Director, for the heads-up
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