Seeing a Just Checking stand at the DLF Telecare Made Easy launch the other week made me realise that it was a long time since I had seen what the company has been up to. Well, I’m pleased to report
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Monthly Archives June 2008
Invicta invites (UK)
Invicta (the largest independent telecare call centre in the UK) invites you to its annual conference on 4th July in Sevenoaks, Kent. Download details here and book your place quickly for this ever-popular free event. And a news item from
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Various views on telemonitoring
Here are five good items that present general perspectives. On other weeks each would rate a separate Telecare Aware entry. If you haven’t time to read them all, give the Quicksilva and Economist articles a whirl. Phone health checks for
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Various product news items
It seems that everyone thinks the first half of June is a good time to launch product improvements. Here is a selection of recent press releases. BodyTel Obtains CE Marking for the GlucoTel Blood Glucose Monitoring and Diabetes Management System
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Health Hero telehealth improvements
Bosch-owned Health Hero has announced improvements to its system: ability to upload results and retrieve new surveys via Ethernet, in addition to the traditional telephone connectivity larger, brighter, higher contrast screen for enhanced readability wireless infrared support for medical devices
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Uploading telehealth data to Microsoft Health Vault
Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault (in US at the moment) are starting to vie at being the repositories for personal health records, but MHV is the first to be able to import data from remote monitoring devices. HoMedics press
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CAST reports on the state of technology
Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) whose videos I commended recently also has three useful reports on its website: 1. State of Technology in Aging Services 2. State of Technology in Aging Services According to Field Experts and Thought Leaders
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CSIP’s May Telecare Newsletter – WSD site news
CSIP’s March Telecare Newsletter has just been released and is available in pdf form here. Of principal interest to Telecare Aware readers is the section that reports the Parliamentary question (number 202723) by the Liberal Democrat Shadow Health spokesperson Sandra
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RemoteNurse in WSD programme featured in UK national daily paper
The Home Telehealth Ltd press release first featured on Telecare Aware made it into The Sun, one of the big UK national newspapers last week. Other than a couple of small inaccuracies (the RemoteNurse isn’t included in Newham and Kent’s
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Telehealthcare
Tunstall starts to stake a claim to the terminology ‘highground’ with the promotion of the term ‘telehealthcare’ to indicate the interconnectedness of telehealth and telecare. Tunstall press release reproduced by eHealth Insider. Will it catch on? Or does it add
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