According to a recruitment agency, Proton Healthcare/Pegasus – which, of course, it doesn’t name – is getting on with its strategy to market health monitoring devices in the UK through high-street chemists shops. (See: Proton Healthcare to target UK consumer… Read moreProton Healthcare moves its UK strategy on

Of clients using Pharos’ Tel-Assurance remote patient monitoring platform, 60 percent (those with the highest percentage of patients enrolled in the program) ranked among the best quartile of health systems nationally for low readmission rates following an admission for heart… Read moreHospital Users of Pharos Innovations’ Tel-Assurance: significantly lower readmission rates

If you know community matrons (UK) or other community nurses (anywhere in the world), you may like to send them a link to a new social networking site, especially for them: The Community Nurses Network (http://www.communitynursesnetwork.com). Nurses signing up within… Read moreNew community nurses networking site

July’s DH Care Networks Telecare LIN’s Telecare eNewsletter has been published to coincide with the publication of the Social Care Green Paper (links to news stories on the Green Paper). As well as information on the telecare aspects of the… Read moreJuly's Telecare eNewsletter published to coincide with the Social Care Green Paper (UK)

I’ve grouped these together so you can skip them if you are not interested in telemedicine developments: Looking behind the scenes – An EU-policy initiative on telemedicine: Why and how? Telecare Industry Poised to Take Off in Taiwan Timeline: The… Read moreTelemedicine: three items

HealthInvestor has a conference coming up that may interest supplier company readers: Succeeding PASA workshop – Understanding the new commercial operating model, Wednesday 7 October 2009, London. It is also offering a discount on registrations until 17 August – £325… Read moreHealthInvestor offer on conference registrations (UK)

Boston Scientific Corporation has announced CE Mark for its Lattitude Patient Management system which remotely monitors patients with implantable cardiac devices, gathering information on both the device and a patient’s heart health status. It will be launched in Europe in… Read moreEU approval for Lattitude Patient Management System

In a move that repositions its Health Guide in the marketplace, Intel has responded to the dismay that its ‘broadband only’ policy had produced by announcing that it will make a ‘modem’ type device available that will connect the Health… Read moreIntel Health Guide goes POTS

[I have provided the following translation as there doesn’t seem to be a non-subscription version available in English] MADRID, Jul 10. Orange has been awarded a contract of 6.2 million Euros for the development of the telecommunications network of the… Read moreOrange España awarded 6.2 million Euro telecoms contract by the Municipality of Alcorcón; to include telecare

This news item, Technology To Help Promote Independence, prompts me to ask a couple of questions that I hope Telecare Aware readers will be able to answer: 1) Is Welsh council Neath Port Talbot one of the last in the… Read moreNeath Port Talbot telecare (Wales)