Conference organisers should take note of the following suggestions from Dr. Ronan Kavanagh. Rebooting the medical meeting – 9 lessons from TEDMED. And, if there is an associated trade exhibition area, they might also think about giving free entrance tickets… Read moreRebooting the medical meeting – 9 lessons from TEDMED
Produced for the Wales NHS Informatics Service, this 6½ minute animated visionary description of eHealth (EHRs, telehealth and education) is receiving a warm welcome. Anything missing, do you think? [Heads-up thanks to Peter Range, Managing Director, Alere Connected Health] And… Read moreWhat is eHealth? (Welsh animation)
A Tunstall-funded study by FACE Recording and Measurement Systems [Summary PDF download] claims that each UK council could save between £3m and £7.8m per year by moving from other forms of care to appropriate telecare. This is an extrapolation from… Read moreTelecare could save UK councils £3m to £7.8m per year
If you choked at the headline you may choke even more at the way the UK’s website for GPs Pulse actually writes up a recently-published Mayo Clinic study. Apart from the anti-telehealth bias in the item Telemedicine ‘trebles death rate’… Read moreTelehealth ‘trebles death rate’ in elderly patients
“Over more than three years, the members of the epSOS project, cofunded by the European Commission, have invested hours of hard work as well as enthusiasm into the development of feasible cross-border eHealth services, addressing technical, semantic and legal interoperability… Read moreDevelopment of cross-border eHealth services in the EU
It’s the first for a while – a thoughtful article from the US on the terminology of aging and older people: ‘Elderly’ No More by Judith Graham in the New York Times. It not only explores the issue but has a… Read more"…none of the young-old want to be identified with the old-old" (US)
According to an eHealth Insider item, Solihull virtual ward tries Air Products, the Virtual Ward team in Solihull had given up on a form of telehealth monitoring – a system that involved discharged hospital patients texting in their results. Takeup… Read moreSolihull virtual ward gives telehealth monitoring 'another go' (UK)
