For safety, as well as for monitoring centres’ compliance with the TSA code of practice (in the UK), users of pendant alarms should make a test button press at least once a month. How do you get them to remember… Read moreTest reminders for pendant users (UK)

Ocean Blue, UK and Hong Kong-based provider of set top box software and services [TA June 2010], has just introduced a facility for service providers to add Skype video and text chat to people’s televisions. A web cam and broadband… Read moreOcean Blue adds Skype video conferencing to TV set top boxes

Report of Neelie Kroes’s speech to the ETNO Innovation Day 2011 in Brussels on 25 January: eHealth: an answer to EU healthcare and demographic challenges. Neelie Kroes is Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the ‘digital agenda’. In it… Read moreNeelie Kroes on eHealth (EU)

Another home automation development from Intamac, whose technology could have implications for future telecare systems: “Now available with mobile connectivity, Intamac’s carrier grade cloud-based platform analyses and interprets incoming data from a customer’s property, and initiates response actions and messaging… Read moreIntamac: New 3G-enabled connected home services (UK)

Nothing remarkable about this local newspaper story except that it is a well written, straightforward account of telehealth monitoring in action and the benefit it has brought an individual. Monitors allow for better quality of life. Wahpeton Daily News (North… Read moreMonitors allow for better quality of life (US)

Mobile Body Area Networks (MBAN) have taken a step closer now that the aeronautical and health industries are reported to have reached an agreement over the use of the frequencies involved. Computerworld item: FCC urged to approve body area network… Read moreMBAN a step closer

According to a press release, Places For People (one of the UK’s largest housing providers) has found that Alertacall’s safety confirmation system is not only proving a hit with its ‘sheltered housing’ tenants, but they:

• are seeing a substantial economic return for the organisation in saved scheme manager (warden) time
• have improved their quality of service by checking on people 7 days a week
• have enabled scheme managers to focus their attention on those people who actually need help that day

Press release: Places for People approve of ‘morning calls’ modern alternative. Unlike ‘we-phone-you’ based systems, even automated ones, which

This just-published report from the NHS Confederation sets out its telehealth agenda from the first paragraph and, later, does not pull its punches: “It seems a fundamental contradiction in the modern NHS that many of the procedures available to patients… Read moreRemote control: The patient-practitioner relationship in a digital age (UK)

Isansys Lifecare, a new UK-based company but with global aspirations, no doubt, has been founded by Keith Errey and Rebecca Weir, who have a track record in the remote patient monitoring industry as former executives of wireless body monitoring technology… Read moreIsansys Lifecare: Newcomer to the market (UK)

The penny (or shoe, depending on which side of the Atlantic you live) seems to be dropping that, to be most effective, telehealth – as in remote patient monitoring – has to be part of a home-focused range of other… Read moreTelehealth in service context