I hate to raise this, but are telecare services are still peddling false reassurance with their continued emphasis on the magic of having a pendant alarm? What prompted this question was a small ‘good news’ story from Brent Council. It… Read moreTelecare services and false reassurance?
The new screening tool identifies patients aged 65 and over on multiple medications who are at greater risk of falls and helps GPs target the one in five at high risk. Item from the Pulse.
Announcement by Steve Hards, Editor, Telecare Aware I am pleased to announce that the ability to provide you with context has expanded with the addition of Donna Cusano as Telecare Aware’s North America Editor. Many readers will be familiar with… Read moreA more informed experience for Telecare Aware readers
From Healthcare IT News: MassMEDIC and Cambridge Consultants just released a survey indicating, among respondents who understood the concept of “connected health,” that 75% believed it could cut costs by up to 40%. Unfortunately another 40% in the survey were not aware of connected… Read moreSurvey: 'Connected health' could cut healthcare costs by 40 percent
Jason Goldberg, president of Ideal Life (Canadian health information company), writes in September’s Managed Health Executive about recent U.S. Congressional legislation that will provide direct Federal funding for telehealth, today largely up to the states’ Medicaid programs. There’s an unsourced estimated $197 billion… Read moreUse of telehealth could save billions (again)
Frederic Lievens organiser of the annual Med-e-Tel conference, attended the Masterclass yesterday (17 September 2009) and kindly shares his observations with Telecare Aware readers:
Imperial College and University of Edinburgh plan to run these classes twice a year, the next one in Edinburgh.
The class is (for now) definitely aiming at introducing ehealth/telehealth to newcomers or people who have only been involved from the sideline so far, which definitely is a worthwhile aim. Hopefully they will be able to attract more and more health and social care professionals and patient advocates, and not just academics.
So the presentations were quite general in scope and focused on things like terminology, history, specific applications, target groups, mobile devices and a connected world, interoperability. The class started with Claudia Pagliari talking about terminology and her first slide referred to the terminology debate and campaign on Telecare Aware. She did indeed provide some formal definitions and taxonomies.
I fully subscribed to James Barlow’s statement that “the future never quite arrives”…
According to an item in DarkDaily (clinical laboratory news), both UK-based Jaltek Group and Sweden-based Ericsson have introduced wireless monitoring systems to be worn by patients at home or in healthcare facilities. [The Jaltek site was not working when I… Read moreJaltek Group (UK) and Ericsson (SE) introduce wireless health monitoring
A remote patient monitoring program has helped cut expected hospital admissions by 36 percent for patients with heart failure at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit…After six months of enrollment in a program that couples patient-centered team care with remote… Read moreRemote monitoring helps Henry Ford reduce admissions for heart failure (US)
A 98-year-old woman has been evicted from her sheltered accommodation after complaints she harassed neighbours…She was also accused of using her panic alarm 563 times in a month. BBC news story.
Two stories, different aspects of the same phenomenon (although in different parts of Scotland). While the changes may be perfectly rational, one can’t help but feel that the casual association in the media of telecare with cuts will help get… Read moreTelecare as part of cuts packages (Scotland)
