The Department of Health’s call last week for demonstrator sites to bring the benefits of whole systems to people with long term conditions should receive a warm welcome from the telecare community. Read the DH webpage but don’t miss Annex A… Read moreDepartment of Health ups stakes on benefits of telecare
The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) in its report Time to Care? (18 Oct 2006) highlights the good telecare work that has been undertaken in Sandwell for the past few years. Of particular note it says that “The data… Read moreCSCI highlights good telecare practice in Sandwell (UK)
London Borough of Newham’s ambitious telecare plans, which put other councils’ Preventative Technology Grant-based strategies in the shade (see Telecare Aware report 19 July 2006), have had their official launch. Mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, said: “NeAT is a… Read moreNewham goes NeAT
16 months ago, when Telecare Aware started tracking international stories about the Columba phone-bracelet for people with dementia, no one in the UK had heard of it. Now, its developers, Medical Intelligence Technologies, have signed a ‘letter of intent’ to… Read moreMedical Intelligence Technologies gets 'all the reassurance it needs'
The article this item links to is on the ‘difficult to interpret’ side unless you are one of the techies it was written for. However, the notable point is that sensors included in a ZigBee network can be placed much… Read moreAnother one to watch: Zigbee technologies
