E-Health Europe reports a large scale, €800,000 telehealth (remote monitoring) project for COPD patients dicharged from hospital. Denmark runs telehealth pilots. (Scroll down.) [The article says the service is outsourced to Australian company MedSat… surely that should be Danish health… Read moreDenmark's large scale telehealth project

The Burnside Telecom Easy Answer wireless desktop phone will appear for the first time in public at the London Care Show, Olympia 7-8 October 2009. Telecare Aware report on the phone (March 2009) Mature Times review for a more detailed… Read moreBurnside desktop wireless phone for older people to get public airing at London Care Show

Business Week addresses ‘aging in place’ with a multi-part special technology report, largely highlighting telecare/telehealth initiatives by Fortune 50 companies–Intel, GE and Philips. Sadly they skip over the small companies driving innovation in the field, who could use the attention, except for Living Independently Group (QuietCare), but the focus in that article is on the outcomes of the GE investment.  

More Intel:  Eric Dishman blogs about President Obama’s CTO, Aneesh Chopra, and his presentation to a FCC (Federal Communications Commission) workshop on telehealth as key to healthcare reform goals, originally reported in Communications Daily. The venue is curious for a discussion of healthcare IT and… Read moreTelehealth being 'levered' by healthcare reform?

Another indicator of more US Federal government attention to telecare and the incremental growth of companies in this space.  This short article announces a $475,000 (GBP 289,000) grant from the US Department of Defense (specifically DARPA, the real inventor of the internet) for… Read moreTelecare support for US veterans to be tested

Wall Street Journal:  We’ve all been fond of categorizing medication dispensers and medminders, no matter how sophisticated, with the qualifier that there is no real way to determine whether the meds have actually been taken by the patient.  Now, there may be a way. … Read more"Creepy" medication compliance via microchips in pills

In another example of how telehealth is being tested in rural US areas, University of Hawaii-Maui Community College is testing American TeleCare’s system to train nurses in better clinical practice and extend outpatient care on this largely rural island.  Project… Read moreUniversity of Hawaii selects American Telecare for 'connected care'

The Nursing Times has followed up its original story (Telecare Aware item: Leicester NHS’s bizarre telehealth decision) with the revelation that it’s the two primary care trusts (aka PCTs, through which the hospital and other health services in the area… Read moreStopping Leicester's telehealth project: blame the PCTs

Amusing item from ‘The Ideas Bazaar’. Window shopping – for telecare? (See also Telecare Soapbox: Tesco Telecare – How far away? from two years ago.)