Choose Independence will be working in partnership with the TSA, its members and other key stakeholders to review and update the current Code of Practice Parts I, II and III to reflect the rapidly changing Telecare environment in the UK… Read moreChoose Independence to review Telecare Services Association Code of Practice (UK)
The network is being provided to the NHS by BT under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), to create a discrete network for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly NHS. The COIN project is part-funded by Connecting for Health, which runs… Read moreCornish broadband backbone offers prospect of telemedicine in remote locations (UK)
Researchers from the University of South Australia have been using garment integrated electronic technology to develop smart garments that, when placed on electronic hangers, enable monitored data to be downloaded in a heartbeat to a computer in your wardrobe, and… Read moreIs there a doctor in the wardrobe?
Rather short notice, but of interest to people who can make it to Birmingham on 11 and/or 12 and/or 13 July. See web page for details and register by clicking on the appropriate seminar link. i-Health Network.
Scotty Group PLC has sold its telehealth activities to Zydacron Holding Ltd for £5.3 million in a management buy-out led by two former directors of the company, Georg Weber and Andreas Boedenauer. Zydacron was Scotty’s telehealth arm in the Netherlands…. Read moreScotty Group sells telehealth activities to Zydacron
Two stories that show how a supplier’s need to promote itself can be best met by being genuinely informative. Remote ECG Telemedicine System Supports Urgent Treatment Centre (UK) “The service has already proven effective in saving lives. Recently, when a… Read moreObject lessons in telehealth promotion
Since launching the telehealth service, 26 hospital admissions have been prevented in just four months, according to the Tunstall press release as Milton Keynes PCT and the Community Alarm Service move into telehealth.
Responding to the needs of Europe’s growing ageing population, the Commission has adopted a European Action Plan for “Ageing Well in the Information Society”. This Action Plan is accompanied by a new joint European research programme raising to over €1bn… Read more1bn Euro research into digital technologies for Europeans to age well
A Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare article by James Barlow, Debbie Singh, Steffen Bayer and Dick Curry. Read the abstract/purchase the article here.
