“A new platform for wearable electronics, known as the FLORA, was announced by its creators Adafruit Industries on Friday. Essentially a small, round, fabric-friendly circuit board that looks a little like a flower, the FLORA will, when ready, be launched… Read moreFLORA for wearable devices?

Published last week…as it has a distribution of 45,000 you probably know about it already. PDF download. It contains UK policy-related updates and, for the first time, the news links are arranged by category rather than date: Policy, funding and… Read moreTelecare LIN January 2012 newsletter published (UK)

Just catching up on the 3 Million Lives (3ML) website, which was launched last week… Is there anything interesting on it? Not much beyond the occasional typo; the information that Angela Single (Clinical Director BT Health) chairs the Working Group… Read more3 Million Lives website launched (UK)

First telehealth… do you have a copy of North Yorkshire and Yorks (NYY) PCT’s Telehealth Internal Audit Report (August/September? 2011) that you’d like to share with us? It’s the one that reveals more of what went on during the telehealth… Read moreReaders' help wanted

Proteus Biomedical’s Helius ‘sensor-enabled tablets’ can be taken with pills or incorporated directly into medicines by the manufacturers. The sensors are activated by stomach acid and each sensor, the size of a grain of sand, contains a tiny amount of… Read moreProteus Biomedical to introduce smartpill into UK in September

Cornwall is aiming high. Good! With its Whole System Demonstrator phase over – effectively a 3-year pilot project that was bigger than many so-called ‘mainstreamed’ places – if anyone can do it, they can! NHS Cornwall in Telehealth 30,000 patient… Read moreCornwall: 30,000 people to use telehealth (UK)

Back in October 2010 Telecare Aware readers were raising doubts about the cost-effectiveness of North Yorkshire and Yorks’ PCTs procurement of 2000 telehealth units. [In fairness, not all the £3.2m project cost went to equipment supplier Tunstall. We understand that… Read moreNNY £3.2m telehealth project – negative evaluation hits local headlines

Mrs Kathleen Cliff, aged 74 died in hospital two weeks after a fall. She lay on her floor all night until a neighbour found her. Her phone and pendant alarm (PERS or medical alarm button for our American readers) were… Read moreWill the coroner ask the right question? (UK)

Hands up who thinks it is a good idea to pay $6000 each for a videoconferencing system on wheels and then expect parents of young children to let it roam about their home under the control of a doctor or… Read moreThe Curse of the Were-Robot

Jeremy Wyatt (a professor at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick University ) does a ‘balanced’ piece on telehealth and the WSD trials in The Guardian. Mike Clark does a better job in the comments. More work needed on telehealth.