An open letter to the Obama Health Team on health IT spending
A great-value posting (as always) in the e-CareManagement blog, advocating a phased strategy that concentrates on building doctor-patients connectedness.
A great-value posting (as always) in the e-CareManagement blog, advocating a phased strategy that concentrates on building doctor-patients connectedness.
Just in this morning, a press release from Aberdeenshire Council announcing the publication of the evaluation of their 18 month telecare project. It’s a cracker, in every sense of the word*. The headline news is excellent: Out of 51 people… Read moreAberdeenshire's telecare Christmas cracker
This is the simplest, clearest explanation I have seen of how remote patient health monitoring is managed in the NHS, what patients do, and its benefits. The 3.21 minute video on YouTube does not hide its Docobo origin, but that… Read moreTelehealth in Hackney (UK)
Telecare gas detector saves a woman’s life while she sleeps. Press release from Lincolnshire County Council (UK).
Just flagging up this story in the terminology category, although as the ‘Telecare Crisis Line‘ began in 1989, it has a prior claim to the term. Drat! I was going to set up a ‘telecare crisis line’ for telecare services… Read moreTelecare Crisis and Caring Line
A local authority says it needs to reduce staffing costs by 10% – with some of its 4,500 workforce to be offered voluntary redundancy. Denbighshire council is consulting on plans to save an estimated £5.7m over the next two financial… Read moreWelsh council to cut staff costs
In this blog item the author rants most engagingly that many healthcare organisations are rushing into technological areas that they do not understand. He is responding (approvingly) to a recent US Joint Commission’s Sentinel Events Alert on HIT that challenges… Read moreJust what part of biomedical informatics research don't you understand?
I missed this when it was published back in July, but it may be a fitting end-of-the-year item to mark the rise of what may be the next trend in telehealth monitoring technology, as briefly touched on in Telecare Aware… Read moreOpen source calls the tune for phones
The CommonWell project will support independent living and improve the quality of life for a total of 400 older people and people with long-term conditions in four locations in Europe. However, when you read the press release, remember that the… Read moreCommonWell project in four European countries
“Telehealth…is used as an ‘early warning system’, with the aim of quicker medical intervention and reduced hospital admissions…Woodside House Care Home in Norwich…is one of the first nursing homes to use the system in the county. It has been successfully… Read moreHealth technology in Norfolk care homes (UK)