Yesterday’s announcement by Eastbourne-based Welbeing that they have acquired the telecare monitoring business of CASA Lifeline – which had provided services to approximately 4,000 customers across Kent and East Sussex, reminds editor Steve that one of his first observations about… Read moreUK telecare call centre rationalisation – slowly but surely
Companies that can position their telehealth service as an innovative idea that can “change the way information is currently used and shared between different organisations [and] NHS staff, clinicians and patients can access information when they need to and patients… Read moreNHS Information sharing challenge fund (UK)
The Strategic Society Centre has published a major piece of quantitative social research – with the support of [telecare service provider] Age UK – to map users of personal alarms and alerting devices among the older population in England. It… Read moreMillions of people could benefit from telecare (UK)
In what has been taken by several Telecare Aware readers as evidence that Tunstall employees live on a different planet, Tunstall Australasia has claimed their broadband-based videoconferencing for telehealth as a ‘world first’ and a ‘monumental achievement’. Senator Stephen Conroy,… Read moreNews from Planet Tunstall (Aus & UK)
“…whilst there are a wide variety of new technologies regarding fall detectors in development, the range of technologies currently available through health and social services to users are limited. Health and social care staff appear to be less convinced of… Read moreFall detectors: a review of the literature (UK)
Gizmag highlights work at the University of Manchester (UK) on a carpet that could be used to sense changes in a person’s gait: ‘Magic carpet’ can detect and possibly predict falls. It’s a topic that Telecare Aware has reported on… Read moreMainstream gait monitoring a step nearer?
Telefonica, Fundacion Deporte Joven, and climber and astronaut Josu Feijoo have launched the first expedition involving four diabetic young people to the base camp of Mount Everest. The four will each be equipped with a tracking system and remote control… Read moreTelefonica eHealth service powers diabetics Everest climb
Telecare as in ‘telehealth’, it seems. Albyn Housing, in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, has funding for a project and is open to suggestions from companies that have something new to bring to market. The call for expressions of interest… Read moreHighland Testbed for Telecare Development (UK)
The mystery of how Tunstall’s latest offering is pronounced has been solved for Telecare Aware readers by Tunstall’s PR company, Context PR – it’s Lifeline Vi as in ‘see’, ‘be’, ‘pea’, etc. Context PR is also engaged on the 3millionlives… Read moreIt's Vee!
Rejecting the seductively easy but fundamentally flawed Framework Agreement route. m2m item.
