Ask the kids by Roy Lilley, who chaired last year’s Telecare Services Association’s conference, is a fun read with a serious point to make about surviving and thriving in the current turbulent times. (Not telecare/telehealth.)
Three Scottish items indicate the way that telecare has become an accepted part of service configuration for saving resources in these tight times – and the way that the local media can assume that readers know what it is. GPS… Read moreScotland continues to embed telecare into services and media consciousness
Lightweight item from one of the Cisco company blogs with a couple of videos and few recent news items. Oh, and the icky stuff. The Virtual Doctor Is In by Dannette Veale.
Not telecare/telehealth, but an item that should make some companies – maybe yours? – stop and think. Good Peter Drucker quote at the end. Hey Pepco: There’s an app for that. Gazette.net, Maryland.
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist is optimistic about mobile electronic health records, remote patient monitoring, and a new corporate culture open to workplace democracy in which tech innovation thrives. “Years after his low-production classified advertisements websites rocked the media world… Read moreeHealth as easy as Craigslist? Craig thinks so
Almost two years after she left as boss of eHealth Ontario in a politically damaging scandal, Sarah Kramer has a new job in California. This scandal is not a story we followed in Telecare Aware as it was mostly of… Read moreFormer Ontario eHealth boss resurfaces in California
New product note for engineering readers – MSC is offering eight Renesas ultra-low power 32-bit MCUs in the V850ES/Jx3-L series for mobile smart metering and medical applications with high memory demand. Four of the new devices are available with a… Read moreUltra-low power MCUs for mobile smart metering
The Kings Fund telecare / telehealth conference has just finished with the announcement that presentations and videos of the live streaming (which was an excellent feature!) will be available on Monday on http://www.kingsfund.tv. Review the Twitterstream on the same site… Read moreCatch up with KF conference video
According to the negotiator for the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee (GPC), there is no demand from patients for access to their health records online and the Department of Health’s £8m Healthspace project should be scrapped. The usage figures… Read moreNo demand from patients for EHRs in the UK
