In a statement, Carol Williams, Director of Service Improvement, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust began by outlining the positive progress being made by the Cornish part of the Whole Systems Demonstrator (WSD) project: “The Whole Systems Demonstrator… Read moreCornwall WSD soldiers on without Remote Nurse
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The underlying aim of the 29 Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) pilot sites is to create a sustainable shift in resources and culture away from the focus on institutional and hospital-based crisis care toward earlier and better targeted interventions… Read morePOPP projects: dismal interim report (UK)
The influential Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADSS) and Tunstall have signed a partnership agreement. See press release. It’s another smart move on Tunstall’s part, but someone needs to ask some serious questions of the ADSS about this… Read moreADSS partnership with Tunstall
Relatively unknown as yet on the UK telecare/telehealth scene, Burnside Telecom will be exhibiting at the TSA conference next week. For a preview of its wireless, telecare-enabled desktop phone, a new terminal that falls back to a mobile network if… Read moreBurnside Telecom: New kit and low UK mobile tarrifs
Telecare in danger of getting a bad reputation in this part of Scotland if they can’t get the response right. News article.
American TeleCare, Inc. (ATI) has announced that its InLife and LifeView telehealth systems are now in use to implement a heart failure outcomes study in Atlantic Canada. The project, Strategy of Home Telehealth for the Management of Heart Failure (STARTEL)… Read moreATI: Heart failure management study in Canada
Burnside Telecom P340T Desktop Mobile Phone with Wireless Trigger and mobile tariffs at half the cost of landlines Northern Housing Consortium NHC Brochure (pdf) NHC Procurement information (pdf) Choose Independence Choose Independence TSA Conference Nov 08 (pdf) Choose Independence Services… Read moreLinks to materials provided by TSA Conference Exhibitors
Back in September, unnoticed by most people outside of Africa, the Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria hosted the second 2-day Pan African Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth (PACTe). The theme was ‘eHealth in Low Resource Settings’. In view… Read moreConference report: eHealth in Low Resource Settings
You might want to drop in on the following forum topic to read a US user’s view of the alert systems and EPRs unmediated by any company spin. It’s called: For those who dislikes wearing Medic Alert Bracelets – here’s… Read moreAlert systems – another user's view
