Professor Cleland (University Hull, UK) reinforced the ‘hard messages’ around telehealth monitoring of patients, as reported in this conference press release: “rapid technical evolution has run far ahead of any service evolution, and conventional clinical trials are likely to underestimate… Read moreTelemonitoring could radically change individualised heart failure treatment
The providers of the EMS iPhone application mentioned in Telecare Aware 19 May (Application for the iPhone to Save More Lives) seeing the comments about the LogicMark pendant being hard wired for 911 calls, immediately made a change to their… Read moreEMS iPhone application developed further
According to an item in the Health Service Journal, cost inflation caused by the introduction of the latest version of the payment by results tariff could hit primary care trusts’ preparations for the financial downturn. It sounds like telehealth providers… Read moreNew NHS tariff upsets PCTs' financial plans
The Department of Health’s Care Networks’ Housing Learning and Improvement Network has published a report Marketing Extra Care Housing which concludes that “A lack of basic public relations and marketing skills amongst extra care housing providers is contributing to poor… Read morePoor marketing hampers elderly care housing provision (UK)
Tandberg has donated six of its bedside video systems to the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh. The babycams will be used to link mothers to their newborns via video-conferencing in situations where they have been separated from their babies… Read moreMothers hold babycams and cry
One for our bookstore? I’m still looking for recommendations, remember. Let me know what you think. The blurb says:
“Health care is primarily about people-to-people interactions. It is about understanding, diagnosis, physical contact, communication, and, ultimately, providing care. By bringing people together, telecommunication technologies have the potential
Fife Council’s Social Work Service, in partnership with NHS Fife and Fife Police, is trying out door monitoring and GPS tracking. John Honeyman, training and marketing adviser with Fife Telecare Programme, said: “Many people with dementia prefer to stay in… Read moreFife tries out telecare for people with dementia (Scotland)
US personal alarm monitoring service First Response is introducing weekly checks that their customers’ systems are working. Press release.
For the second time in a few months Just Checking gets great publicity, not by blowing its own trumpet, but by letting other people tell their story. The first was with the publication of the CSESD team’s Staffordshire report and… Read moreChecking up on people with dementia
Current indicators on eHealth availability and use are not uniform and do not cover all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. The European Commission funded the consultancy company empirica to undertake studies on eHealth Indicators and eHealth Benchmarking…. Read moreOECD expert meeting on eHealth indicators
