Presented at this year’s SilversSummit @ CES was the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare’s joint study, The e-Connected Family Caregiver: Bringing Caregiving into the 21st Century. In the US, family caregivers provide an estimated $375 billion of uncompensated care, and as… Read moreFamily caregivers and telehealth: for now, high interest, low usage
Despite the retro title, this blog entry on Huffington Post (a source this editor rarely uses) by Roy Schoenberg, MD, CEO of online consult service American Well, isn’t. He advocates telemedicine (precisely defined as online a/v consults) as a way–not… Read moreTelemedicine–the next big thing (again?)
It’s not on either company’s website yet, but Invicta Telecare‘s newsletter has announced that it has chosen Verklizan’s UK operation Novalarm to provide its monitoring system upgrade as a “flexible, efficient and agile” option that will provide Invicta’s customers with… Read moreInvicta selects Novalarm (UK)
If you fancy a 41-paragraph ramble through what telehealth is, and teleheath in Scotland in particular (and why it could be a world leader if it were not for the lack of understanding of the non-clinical benefits by clinicians and… Read moreScotland: A potential world leader in telehealth?
It is not helpful when recent analyst reports “group patient-to-patient email, robotic surgery, store and forward technology, telemedicine equipment, clinic-to-clinic video conferencing, and home monitoring devices in the same market space.” In No Clear Consensus on Telemedicine Market Size (Hope… Read moreJournalists and analysts need to understand telehealth market segmentation
Flagging this up belatedly. On 9 December 2010 Counsel and Care (a UK charity for older people, their families and carers, whose chief executive Stephen Burke has been a strong advocate of free telecare) published a free 43-page PDF Telecare… Read moreCounsel and Care: Guide to Telecare and Telehealth (UK)
