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The Medetel Conference in Luxembourg last week saw release of the first version of a new European Code of Practice for Telehealth Services. The Code offers the prospect of a quality standard that will guide telehealth service development and engender… Read moreDraft Code of Practice for Telehealth Services launched (EU)

Medilink, one of the four lead organisations in the 3 Million Lives Campaign [that’s how it is being styled these days] runs an enthusiastic piece on it in its magazine. Well, it would be odd if it did not. You can access it here. This editor (Steve) spent a few minutes puzzling over the meeting dates mentioned…23 February, 27 February, 28 February… what happened to the one on the 29th? Click the ‘Read more’ link below for some of interesting quotations from the item…

An exclusive in the other (non-Pulse) source of information for UK GPs, GP Online tells how Department of Health (DH) officials clumsily used a Freedom of Information get-out clause to prevent GP Online from getting its hands on the Whole… Read moreDH's ham-fisted block of WSD results (UK)

Roy Lilley has ably chaired the TSA conference for the past two years and has a positive interest in telecare and telehealth monitoring. He has been active in generating interest in the field amongst the thousands of NHS managers to… Read moreRoy Lilley on WSD: "There is something very strange about this trial, or the data, or how it's been done" (UK)

1 May: 10:00 am – 11:00 am San Carlos Room Second Level, San Jose Convention Center Marriott The Merinoff Symposium at ATA is billed as a one hour breakout session to help shape future approaches in using telemedicine to manage… Read moreTelemedicine and Parkinson's Disease: the Merinoff Symposium at ATA