“November has been busy with a number of important conferences in England and Scotland. There has been the publication of the NHS Mandate in England with references to telecare and telehealth. The next phase of the 3millionlives initiative has been… Read moreNovember Telecare LIN newsletter published (UK)

1. Guardian journalist visits a response centre and becomes a spokesperson for Tunstall. It doesn’t quite justify the headline: How telecare is transforming social care. 2. Also in The Guardian – but this time by someone who has real, albeit… Read moreOne newspaper – two treatments of telecare (UK)

Nurses in a town in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, have seen off proposals to reduce a doctor’s presence in favour of ‘tele-health’ (as in video-based consultations). The system is being widely used in NSW and the ‘setback’ has been… Read moreNurses 1, Video Consultations 0… for now (Australia)

Is it telehealth? Telemedicine? Whatever… Healthcare IT News went to the National eHealth Collaborative’s Technology Crossroads Conference in Washington, DC this past Tuesday and reports that telehealth–in their definition also including telemedicine–will be doubling its use in the next few… Read moreThe Friday telehealth roundup

US EHR Stage 2 payments a waste? In September and October, Congressional Republicans scored Health and Human Services (HHS) on “weak” EHR interoperability standards under Stage 2 of the HITECH Act and called for temporary suspension of EHR incentive payments… Read moreMore EHR misery: EHR payment cutoff, data breach

The Gimlet Eye is beginning to feel not quite up to speed in reading The Wall Street Journal’s dashing article on the wonderful things cars will shortly be doing to keep you awake, alive and healthy. Now awake is all… Read moreMore cars that will monitor your BP…and brain waves