Following Minister Paul Burstow’s recent endorsement of Tunstall, Rachel Cooper in The Telegraph gives Gil Baldwin, Tunstall Group’s CEO an easy ride interview and lets him get away with a ‘blame the customer’ spin on the North Yorkshire and York… Read moreTunstall's CEO says procurement process is 'onerous' and expensive (UK)
UK telecare phone and service provider The CarePhone has today launched an innovative addition to its service. Customers can register their favourite pizza information and the zero key on the phone is programmed so that if it is held for… Read moreTelecare…now with pizza on demand (UK)
Good news for Appello telehealth and Cirrus telecare customers – parent company Peverel has been bought by Chamonix Private Equity and Electra Partners and brought out of administration. The Peverel Group is Britain’s biggest property manager and received a lot… Read morePeverel rescued from administration (UK)
According to Chip Design Magazine there’s a tussle going on over standards for body area networking (BAN). “…one area that is suddenly generating steam – and creating some debate on several fronts – is remote patient monitoring. And seeking to… Read moreStandards battle brews for BAN wireless chips
An item on the US Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging website challenges the received wisdom that having a personal emergency response service (PERS / medical alert / pendant alarm / etc. / etc.) has the well-being benefits usually attributed to… Read moreDoes evidence support the use of PERS?
A quick catch-up on a matter raised at the King’s Fund Congress – a balanced item in eHealth Insider, which reports the information presented about GP and community matrons’ views on telehealth. The good thing is that it reports the… Read moreGPs divided on telehealth (UK)
Lessons from the Maternal Care book of the Perinatal Education Programme were delivered via text message to more than 2,500 midwives each week over 6 months and the recipients surveyed. Email registration required for a copy of the Text messages… Read moreText messages as a learning tool for midwives in South Africa
The UK’s Telecare Services Association (TSA) has launched a tender process for a company/organisation/consultancy to complete work on the Teleheath Code of Practice and to integrate it with the existing Telecare Code of Practice. The tender documents (.zip file) say… Read moreTSA tenders for integrated telecare/telehealth code of practice (UK)
A new product group comparison report on entry-level dispersed alarm units (DAU) for linking through to a telecare monitoring centre has been published on the Telecare EPG. This group test considers entry level models from 7 different suppliers who, collectively,… Read moreFree report: Product group test of dispersed alarm units (UK)
In one of the King’s Fund Congress reports I said that The Minister’s endorsement of Tunstall at the King’s Fund Congress “was probably also more ‘evidence’ for the conspiracy theorists [I’m not one of them: Editor Steve] who believe that… Read more3millionlives: More for the conspiracy theorists (UK)
