The UK’s Design Council has announced five ideas (‘solutions’) for helping people with dementia that it has chosen to feature in one of its ‘innovation stimulating design challenges‘. They include: Trading Times, an online service for carers. Grouple, a secure,… Read moreFive ideas to improve the life of people with dementia – including buddi (UK)
In February we reported that Waldo Networks was one of three companies being sued by Bosch Healthcare in order to protect its portfolio of patents in the telehealth (remote monitoring) arena. It looks as if, like a number of other… Read moreWaldo Health licenses Bosch telehealth patent portfolio
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The Medetel Conference in Luxembourg last week saw release of the first version of a new European Code of Practice for Telehealth Services. The Code offers the prospect of a quality standard that will guide telehealth service development and engender… Read moreDraft Code of Practice for Telehealth Services launched (EU)
Medilink, one of the four lead organisations in the 3 Million Lives Campaign [that’s how it is being styled these days] runs an enthusiastic piece on it in its magazine. Well, it would be odd if it did not. You can access it here. This editor (Steve) spent a few minutes puzzling over the meeting dates mentioned…23 February, 27 February, 28 February… what happened to the one on the 29th? Click the ‘Read more’ link below for some of interesting quotations from the item…
An exclusive in the other (non-Pulse) source of information for UK GPs, GP Online tells how Department of Health (DH) officials clumsily used a Freedom of Information get-out clause to prevent GP Online from getting its hands on the Whole… Read moreDH's ham-fisted block of WSD results (UK)
Roy Lilley has ably chaired the TSA conference for the past two years and has a positive interest in telecare and telehealth monitoring. He has been active in generating interest in the field amongst the thousands of NHS managers to… Read moreRoy Lilley on WSD: "There is something very strange about this trial, or the data, or how it's been done" (UK)
Conference organisers should take note of the following suggestions from Dr. Ronan Kavanagh. Rebooting the medical meeting – 9 lessons from TEDMED. And, if there is an associated trade exhibition area, they might also think about giving free entrance tickets… Read moreRebooting the medical meeting – 9 lessons from TEDMED
Produced for the Wales NHS Informatics Service, this 6½ minute animated visionary description of eHealth (EHRs, telehealth and education) is receiving a warm welcome. Anything missing, do you think? [Heads-up thanks to Peter Range, Managing Director, Alere Connected Health] And… Read moreWhat is eHealth? (Welsh animation)
A Tunstall-funded study by FACE Recording and Measurement Systems [Summary PDF download] claims that each UK council could save between £3m and £7.8m per year by moving from other forms of care to appropriate telecare. This is an extrapolation from… Read moreTelecare could save UK councils £3m to £7.8m per year
