Fifty patients in New South Wales with an average age of 87, suffering serious heart or lung conditions requiring regular hospital stays, were chosen for the six-month trial last year. The results showed an overall reduction of 47 per cent… Read moreSmall telehealth trial results (Australia)
New local service for up to 150 people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Oldham, UK, who will receive support at home. NHS Oldham offers telehealth to patients. [
Telecare24 is billed as a new National Telecare service. It is based in Cardiff (or is it Hampshire?) and is offering ‘stylish telecare equipment’ and a service from £2.99 a week. Press release. Website.
An article in The Guardian highlights the inadequacies of the CE marking regime, using breast implants as an example. Medical devices and Chinese toys share same level of safety checks. [Recent Telecare Soapbox item that concerns CE marking: Complicity between… Read moreMedical devices and Chinese toys share same level of safety checks (UK)
Generation3 Capital (Gen3), a Chicago based private equity firm which has had some experience in the security and durable medical equipment market, announced this week their acquisition of LogicMark, designer and manufacturer of two-way PERS systems. LogicMark was the first… Read moreGen3 acquires LogicMark (US)
Participants at a Future Trends Round Table chaired by Dr Michael Dixon OBE at The King’s Fund on Thursday December 8, 2011, agreed that telehealth could only deliver benefits if it is implemented as part of fully integrated healthcare services… Read moreRound Table agrees integration is important for telehealth implementation (UK)
[This may be important for the context of the next stage of the development of the market for telecare in the UK if services and suppliers play it right. Ed. Steve] In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on… Read moreDemands for urgent and fundamental reform to care and home help services in England
Nice mHealth article by Professor K Ganapathy in The Hindu. “With every sixth human and every fifth mobile phone on this planet in India, one would have thought that we would be the leaders in mHealth particularly when mBanking, mCommerce… Read moreThe doctor in your pocket! (India)
The Qtel Group has launched a new mHealth service which allows diabetic patients in Kuwait, Iraq and Palestine to use their mobile phones to receive personalised alerts and information on exercise and diet. Qtel Group launches mHealth service TradeArabia. [TA’s… Read moreQtel Group launches mHealth service (Qatar)
Medical Alarm Concepts has released a preliminary version of its new television commercial for its MediPendant personal medical alarm system (one of the ones where you can talk through the pendant). They have released it because they had “had many… Read morePreview of MediPendant TV adverts (US)
