An item in the UK’s right-wing ConservativeHome blog follows on from a TA one last Friday (When will the NHS wake up to telehealth?) as it picks up on 2020health’s telehealth report. Unfortunately, the commeter rather undermines his case –… Read more2020health report starts to get an airing (UK)
When you read this item from 6minutes.com it sounds like less of a consultation and more of a marketing exercise. Telehealth feedback sought.
Continuing its campaign of topically focused press releases, noted previously on TA, Telehealth Solutions’s latest emphasises the benefit for people with COPD to use remote monitoring when, as at present, much of the UK has ground to a halt owing… Read moreHomePod can now be rented privately (UK)
An item for the highways and byways of telecare history. If you have ever wanted to know more about the origin of that phrase, it is covered at number 3 in neatorama.com’s report on Great Moments in Infomercial History.
This surprisingly low number for heart failure readmissions was featured in a Nurse.com article on home care using telehealth services–broadly defined as phone, web and remote patient monitoring. In a study of 284 heart failure patients from 2009-2010, the Visiting Nurse Association of Central NJ (VNACJ) and Monmouth Medical Center found only 11.9% rehospitalized for ‘same cause’ in 2009–which was reduced to a scant 3.17% this year, January – September.
The European mHealth Alliance – formed last June as an Anglo-Finnish spearheaded, but pan-European effort–and not to be confused with the Washington-based mHealth Alliance that cosponsored the recent mHealth Summit – named Intel as a ‘Foundation Member’ and UK-based Adherence Science Ltd., a developer of… Read moreEuropean mHealth Alliance adds Intel
Wireless Week takes a look at WellDoc’s mobile phone based Diabetes Manager, AT&T’s imprimatur [TA 15 Oct] and likes what it sees: claiming in clinical trials an average drop in blood glucose of 2.8% versus Merck’s 0.7% for its latest… Read moreWellDoc profiled in Wireless Week
As we near the end of the year (in a scant five weeks!), was 2010 the year that mHealth broke out? If you look at conferences–with the mHealthSummit and the Mobile Health Expo and mHealth Dubai past and the Digital Health Summit… Read moreWas 2010 mHealth's year?
Two items that ask the same ‘When?’ question from different angles:
First, a primary care angle from widely read Healthcare Republic, Stephen Robinson in Can telecare ease GPs’ workload? which references the Kent, Essex, Nottingham and Scottish telehealth experience and comments from presenters at a recent Kings Fund event.
Second, on Wednesday, Stephen Dorrell (Conservative, ex- health minister from the early 90s and currently Chair of the influential Health Select Committee) gave a speech attended by one of our readers who commented…
No! Not a sparkly new website for us, but for UK telecare monitoring centre provider Eldercare, on www.eldercare.co.uk (not .com!). So why does it get a mention when we have said that a new website is “not news” (sidebar)? It’s… Read moreSparkly new website
