Bosch Healthcare, major insurer Techniker Krankenkasse and Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus (a hospital supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation) have together launched a programme called Alltag mit Telemedizin erfolgreich meistern (A.T.e.m. – ‘Coping with everyday life with telehealth support’) for people with COPD. Approximately
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Monthly Archives June 2012
3millionlives: Organisations that have committed financial resources (UK)
In a press release today, but not yet online,15 companies that have so far contributed (at least ?) £10,000 each to the 3ML campaign have been named: 02 Health; Air Products; BT Health; Care Innovations; Cisco; Harmoni; Invicta Telecare; Peaks
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Lifetime Achievement Award for telemedicine pioneer (France)
An ISfTeH Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Prof. Louis Lareng (France) at the occasion of the Med-e-Tel 2012 Opening Ceremony on April 18th. Prof. Lareng is a Telemedicine and eHealth pioneer and at the age of 89 still active
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InTechnology acquires United Telehealth (UK)
Nottinghamshire-based United Telehealth (UTH) has been acquired by Harrogate-based cloud services provider InTechnology. The Yorkshire company has also taken a stake in Healthsolve, a London-based developer of healthcare software. According to the press release “The investments build on InTechnology’s position
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Confusion over phone bill endangers man (UK)
From the Liverpool Echo: “Peter Mohan, 79, lives in sheltered accommodation in Litherland and suffers from debilitating stomach and intestinal conditions. When he was confused about what he thought were duplicated phone bills and didn’t pay one of them, phone
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Vodafone's vision: drop the ‘m’ in mHealth
Item from MobileBusinessBriefing reporting Head of mHealth Solutions, Vodafone Global Enterprise, Axel Nemetz’s keynote presentation at the GSMA-mHA Mobile Health Summit 2012. “Mobile network operators are looking for scale, but healthcare systems are operating on a national, regional and local
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