A conversation with a manager of a telecare service this week reminded me that although the English Preventative Technology Grant (PTG) has finished, its funding has not. The money associated with the grant is still there, in councils’ baseline funding,… Read morePTG: Funding hasn't gone away (UK)
Proving the saying that it’s an ill wind that blows no one any good, the ban on flights over northern Europe owing to the volcanic ash blowing over from Iceland has disrupted the travel plans of David Doherty of 3G… Read moreIll wind blows in great report
The Highlands and Islands Enterprise development agency is to hold a forum at Aldourie Castle by Loch Ness on May 5 to discuss how the region can become a centre of excellence for ‘telehealthcare’. Press item here.
e-Health Insider Primary Care flags up that the Yorks and Humber Strategic Health Authority (SHA) has agreed to set up, subject to agreement by its PCTs, a ‘telehealth hub’ that would serve the whole region by providing the core infrastructure and managed clinical service for three aspects of care for people with long term conditions – telemonitoring, teleconsultation and teleeducation. Read more and download the 15 page proposal as put to the SHA Board by Professor Sue Proctor, its Director of Patient Care and Partnerships.
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Brian Dolan, editor of MobiHealthNews has kindly put together an item on five must-read (and free) reports on mHealth. “If you haven’t yet soaked in these five mHealth reports, you are handicapping your mHealth acumen.”
