The website ‘whatistelecare’ noted here a few weeks ago [Scummy website starts to make the case for telecare/telehealth industry regulation] has been re-worked to rid itself of the laughably awful text and is exploiting the publicly available videos of proper… Read moreScummy website now exploits your telehealth and telecare videos

We may have just hit a Black Swan [Amazon link] moment for the existing telehealth industry. That is, you never know when a development is going to sweep away the current paradigm and with it your profit-base: FTSE 250-listed company… Read moreDeath knell for contact sensor monitoring of vital signs?

Any document that runs to 108 pages and sets itself up to be a guide to implementing a telehealth programme runs the risk of being disregarded with a world-weary, cynical sigh. That would be a mistake in the case of the ‘Ready Steady Go’ telehealth implementation toolkit just published by the Sheffield-based South Yorkshire Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), part of the NHS’s National Institute for Health Research. The publication of this supplier agnostic and free toolkit has surely saved the 3 Million Lives (3ML) campaign a shed load of money, as well as time.

The authors are well known figures in the UK’s telehealth community…