Companies that can position their telehealth service as an innovative idea that can “change the way information is currently used and shared between different organisations [and] NHS staff, clinicians and patients can access information when they need to and patients… Read moreNHS Information sharing challenge fund (UK)

The Strategic Society Centre has published a major piece of quantitative social research – with the support of [telecare service provider] Age UK – to map users of personal alarms and alerting devices among the older population in England. It… Read moreMillions of people could benefit from telecare (UK)

In what has been taken by several Telecare Aware readers as evidence that Tunstall employees live on a different planet, Tunstall Australasia has claimed their broadband-based videoconferencing for telehealth as a ‘world first’ and a ‘monumental achievement’. Senator Stephen Conroy,… Read moreNews from Planet Tunstall (Aus & UK)

In a development that could stimulate the development of cardiac devices far smaller than currently designed, Stanford engineering professor Ada Poon and her team demonstrated that a millimeter-sized device implanted 5 cm. inside the chest on the surface of the… Read morePinhead-sized, no battery cardiac device developed