Only coincidently to do with telecare, but thumbs up to Ken Healey. From The Sentinel [how appropriate!] Staffordshire.
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Monthly Archives April 2010
PassivSystems: new sensor's heartbeat detection "will revolutionise telecare"
PassivSystems, UK Newbury-based smart home technology firm has won a grant from the South East Health Technology Alliance (SEHTA) to test new electric potential sensors developed by the University of Sussex, evaluating their suitability for remote healthcare provision. If the
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Senate hearings, 'eCare' and national broadband
A roundup of commentary on last week’s Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on ‘Aging in Place: The National Broadband Plan and Bringing Health Care Technology Home’ on the FCC report previously covered here [6 April and 22 March]. Sen. Ron Wyden
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Florida medical school pilots remote blood pressure monitoring with IDEAL LIFE
Toronto-based IDEAL LIFE is ‘snowbirding’ (a little late by the calendar) to Florida, partnering with University of Florida’s Miller School of Medicine for a test of their wireless blood pressure monitoring system with hypertensive patients. The pilot program will be under
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What makes for a successful remote patient monitoring program?
“What 5 things make for a successful telehealth (remote patient monitoring) program?” was a question I [Ed. Steve] was asked recently. This was my response: Physician and nurse enthusiasm An ambitious implementation plan (speed and scale) A liked and respected
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GE Healthcare invests $3 million in Ireland's TRIL Centre for aging design research
GE Healthcare announced this morning a $3 million partnership with the TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Living) Centre in Dublin to help expand their work in technology and design for home health. TRIL is a research initiative founded in January
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'Meaningful use'–by patients?
In the US, primary care physicians, providers and policy wonks are currently mulling achieving the standards set for ‘meaningful use’ of EMRs by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Dr. Joseph Kvedar of the Center for Connected Health in
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mHealth: the developing world really needs it – a Telecare Aware special report
Since retiring, Victor Patterson, a consultant neurologist from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been active in setting up an mHealth service in Nepal for people with epilepsy. In a special report for Telecare Aware he sets out why such services are so vital.
If you think telehealth/telemedicine is too easy in the UK and you'd like a real challenge, my advice is to try Nepal.
Its population is about 28 million people (only a few of whom are Gurkhas). About 80% of people live outside the capital, Kathmandu, where surprise, surprise, about 90% of the country's doctors live.
Working in Nepal is difficult for a number of reasons: there is still a touch of political instability and there are electricity outages for 8 hours most days, but there are two more important reasons...
Nepali road - only 2 hours to go!
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Lifestyle Monitoring – Tomorrow's World? (Scotland)
A nice item from Fife council because it’s not techno-speak driven* but just illustrates the benefits of technology for specific people with dementia and, in the headline and closing comment, makes a link for readers from the unknown (lifestyle monitoring)
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European Satellite Navigation Competition
If you have an idea for a new way stallite navigation can be used, consider entering for The European Satellite Navigation Competition. It is open to any one with “an idea which utilises satellite navigation technology, be it for position,
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