The telehealth remote monitoring of cardiac patients at home project by Knowsley Health and Wellbeing – jointly funded by NHS Knowsley and Knowsley Council – is calculated to have saved around £5,600 (US$ 8,650) per patient over the 14 months… Read moreKnowsley telehealth project saves £185,000 in 14 months
TeleMedCare (TMC) has appointed Alan Payne as the Interim group CEO and Business Development Manager responsible for global sales and the development of TMC e-health products. His appointment comes in the wake of TMC’s recent financial and corporate restructure within its Australian parent group. About the new relationship with Stirling Products, Alan commented…
Just posted:Home-based Telehealth Project Manager – £50k per annum (Negotiable) Recently posted:Telecare Implementation Consultant – Local AuthorityTelecare Call Centre Response Officer – £25,000 per annum Details, and how to express an interest, on the Jobs page.
Most of the coverage of Intel’s purchase of McAfee, best known for its anti-virus PC programs, has concentrated on the size of the deal in a slow M&A market and the general importance of security to advancing IT. What’s not highlighted… Read moreIntel's purchase of McAfee: what it means to healthcare
This editor [Donna] thought they were all over now…but noooo. National Public Radio (NPR) discovers in 2010 that motion sensors can be arrayed to track an older adult’s activity in the home, without cameras. Now I know this discovery comes… Read moreNPR's acid flashback to telecare, 2006 (US)
We haven’t treated you to a forecast in a while, so here’s an ‘exotic’ one from MarketsandMarkets. The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries will experience ‘telemedicine’ growth in the range of 15.8% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) from… Read moreBRIC telemedicine market forecast
Juniper Research updates its mHealth study from the spring [TA 22 April] on its blog with a few thoughts. While cardiac monitoring accounts for most of the present activity, the ‘secondary’ diseases for monitoring, including diabetes, COPD and asthma, could eventually be… Read more'Second' remote monitoring market larger than first? Juniper Research
Two more recent items relating to telemedicine services around the US, other than California, being financed through Federal funding, either the FCC Rural Health Care program or ‘stimulus’ funding. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: $102 million in Federal funding, matched by… Read moreTelemedicine briefs (US)
In this brief announcement in Chemist + Druggist UK, Boots announced a two-store (locations unavailable*) test of TeleMedCare’s telehealth and possibly telemedicine (remote consult) equipment. Based on the article, it would be part of ‘mini medical clinics’ within these two Boots stores. TeleMedCare is proceeding… Read moreBoots pilots TeleMedCare telehealth equipment in stores (UK)
