The charity Carers UK has followed up its March report Care and technology in the 21st century with an undated but apparently recent report Carers and Telecare. Most of the report will not interest Telecare Aware readers, but the conclusion… Read moreCarers UK: Carers and Telecare report

With the recent focus on the statistics from the Whole Systems Demonstrator (WSD) results it is easy to forget that behind each statistic is a personal story and, quite probably, an appreciative one. Editor Steve was reminded of this when… Read moreTelehealth: …and not forgetting…

Ziegler, a specialty investment bank with major interests in non-profit senior living and healthcare, regularly sounds out selected senior living organizations on financial issues through their CFO Hotline email survey. Three questions on this survey to 81 LTC were submitted… Read moreLTC survey not encouraging to telecare providers (US)

According to David Lee Scher, MD, a cardiologist who is a member of the panel developing Happtique’s certification guidelines, there are over 40,000 apps in the health, wellness and fitness category. While consumer and provider-use apps are significantly different in… Read moreThe common ground between consumer and medical apps

It appears that the US HHS is adopting the UK approach of heavy fines for small data breaches [TA 10 Aug]. $1.5 million was the cost of the HHS-Office of Civil Rights (OCR) penalty against Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary,… Read moreA very big fine for a very small data breach (US)

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…

Following its recent report on telehealth, the UK’s Good Governance Institute has published the results of a survey into telecare services in England: ‘Care and support at home: an audit of telecare services in England’ (free download on page). Community… Read moreCare and support at home: an audit of telecare services in England