From Sunderland’s ‘let’s give telecare to as many people as we can’ approach as an act of faith in prevention and as an underpinning for social services: How does Sunderland provide social care to all residents who need it? (David
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Monthly Archives June 2011
Tunstall's telehealth program at NHS Gloucestershire
Just announced, another 2,000-patient telehealth programme for Tunstall, this time in Gloucestershire. Let’s hope the commissioners were not unduly influenced by the North Yorkshire satisfaction survey results. Speaking of North Yorkshire, we wonder whether this programme will also cost £3.2million?
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New Zealand Telehealth Forum established
Great to see New Zealand getting it together…and if they want a website to be their online presence for the country, they are welcome to take on TANN: New Zealand – they just need to nominate a couple of editors.
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More from recent South African mHealth Summit
There are some interesting views on things that are happening in Africa in an interview with Peter Benjamin, General Manager of Cell-Life, a South African non-profit organisation that uses cellphones to assist with healthcare in the HIV/Aids sector. It’s reported
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Singapore tests mHealth device for heart disease
It’s great to see a trial of a new(?) device going on in Singapore, although this editor, Steve, wonders if they will really collect useful results in just 8 weeks. In the UK such trials usually last at least a
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Telecare Services Association – members' concerns (UK)
Several TSA members have privately expressed concerns about recent developments at the TSA that this editor – Steve – thought could do with a little airing. First is concern over the adoption of a softer call handling performance indicator (PI)
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Pharma goes digital for trials, detailing
Needing to cut costs as R&D skyrockets and ‘blockbuster drug’ patents expire, pharmaceutical companies are now turning to online and mobile tools to reduce costs–and speed–drug trials and marketing to physicians. Companies like Mytrus are pioneering the design of clinical
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mHealth Summit: call for presentations
December’s mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C. is calling for presentations and research abstracts in several areas: Presentations: on technology, business and policy Research abstracts: innovative health research using mobile technologies in clinical medicine and public health outcomes. The deadline for
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DALLAS – A thorough commissioning process to take less than a year (UK)
Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale (DALLAS) is a programme/competition that will establish three to five sites across the UK (one site will be located in Scotland) with a minimum of 10,000 users per site that will “show how assisted
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Will watches make a comeback?
Wearing a watch may not remain the generational marker that it currently is. A revival in the popularity of the watch may come with phone-related functions as the following brief pointer-to-the-future item from PopSci illustrates: Stop Rummaging for Your Phone
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