The title of this UK Times-related Raconteur item Technology is key to unlock healthcare cost savings sums up the UK establishment’s view on health monitoring technologies, even if critics in academia and the medical profession argue that this is still… Read moreTechnology is the key to unlock healthcare cost savings (UK)
Remote Patient Monitoring in Cardiology by doctors Suneet Mittal and Jonathan Steinberg “offers a concise, practical and current guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the existing remote monitoring technology and provides a framework for incorporating it into clinical practice.”… Read moreBook: Remote Patient Monitoring in Cardiology
Older people who have suffered a heart attack often do not stick with the drugs their doctor prescribes, although the medications have been proven to save lives, according to a new US study. Many heart attack patients don’t refill their… Read moreThe case for improving medicine compliance
Mobile health company AirStrip Technologies filed a lawsuit this week against mVisum over recently issued patents for remote patient data monitoring on iPhones, iPads and other smartphones. Airstrip sues over iPhone patient monitoring patents. MassDevice item. UPDATE 22 Oct: More… Read moreAirStrip Technologies sues mVisum over patents (US)
Out-and-out heartwarming local story of a 4-year-old who called for help using a panic button when her mother was suffering from an epileptic fit at their home in Wales. All good publicity. Quick-thinking Maddison helps save her mum’s life. Where… Read moreMaddison Darby: telecare hero (UK)
TapCare is promoting an interesting idea – that it is possible to use Near Field Communication (NFC) tags with smartphones and tablets as a simple way of alerting the carers (caregivers) of people living independently to changes in their care… Read moreWhat is TapCare? And who?
Adam Steventon of the Nuffield Turst continues to ruminate on the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) results in his latest blog item, Should clinical commissioning groups invest in telehealth? More and more, the answer to the question of whether telehealth monitoring… Read moreThe answer to the question of whether telehealth is a good thing (UK)
A piece on the UK’s Royal College of Nursing website describes an interesting use for home-based pulse oxometry: measuring obstructive sleep apnoea, particularly in children, where other forms of hospital-based monitoring are particularly disturbing and produce atypical results: Home monitoring… Read moreUsing pulse oxometry to monitor obstructive sleep apnoea
For over three years the UK Government’s Framework Agreement (FA) for procuring Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching services has been perpetuating the industry-wide confusion between Carecalls Ltd trading as Telecare Technology (www.telecaretechnology.com) and the unrelated Telecare Technology Limited. Two weeks ago… Read moreShh! GPS clears up a BS mess (UK)
Social workers are up in arms about the portrayal of a social worker in one of the UK’s favourite TV soaps. Fury over Eastenders’ ‘misleading’ social work storyline – Community Care item. Now, hands up who still thinks it’s a… Read moreFury over Eastenders' misleading social work storyline (UK)
