Established in 1995, the Center for Connected Health (formerly Partners Telemedicine) is linked to physicians at Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals through the Partners HealthCare network. The Center is ‘developing initiatives in telehealth, remote care and disease and lifestyle management… Read moreCenter for Connected Health – revamped website
Swindon on 29 August 2007 and Cardiff on 4 September. For practitioners, managers, policy staff and other stakeholders. The course tutor is Malcolm Fisk, author of Social Alarms to Telecare: Older People’s Services in Transition, Chairman of the Telecare Services… Read moreDay Course: Developing Effective Telecare (UK)
Interesting article about the self-help ageing at home movement in the US. How would this concept, so embedded in the American culture of non-dependence on the state, translate into a UK or European context? What’s missing from the article is… Read moreA Grass-Roots Effort to Grow Old at Home (US)
ALR Technologies, which manufactures advanced electronic medication reminder devices, saw sales fall and losses mount in the last quarter and it is negotiating with its creditors to delay repayments. Business press item.
Published by Tunstall, apparently in June. the press release quotes an endorsement from atdementia.org, but I can’t find reference to the publication on their web site. Brochure download.
An amazing development reported by Wireless Healthcare [URL “http://www.wirelesshealthcare.co.ukRemoveThisFromTheUrl/wh/news/wk33-07-0001.htm” is reported by Google to be compromised by malware, 16 March 2015] – batteries that look, feel and can be cut like paper. Definitely a ‘Pointer to the Future’.
The received wisdom is that, come July and August, it is the holiday season and that most people are away from work. But, it seems, not Telecare Aware readers. When I send out an update alert email, I get ‘out… Read moreAn observation about Telecare Aware readers
The Smart House movement pre-dates the introduction of telecare. Guy Dewsbury challenges the current trend of branding telecare-enabled accommodation as ‘smart’. Read his Telecare Soapbox item.
The British Journal of Healthcare Computing is running its second telecare event, in Birmingham on 27th September 2007. The day will focus on case-history presentations and is free for participants from the NHS, social services and third sector organisations. More… Read moreFree telecare conference (UK)
Said Adrian Flowerday, MD of Docobo “…some of our patients, who either prefer to use their mobile phone, or are not symptomatic enough to need [monitoring at home] Many of them lead extremely active lives and the mobile phone is… Read moreDocobo telehealth for mobiles (UK)
