Dementia patients (a quarter of all admissions to hospital) are suffering at the hands of undertrained hospital staff who ignore pleas for help and fail to treat them as individuals, a damning report into standards of care has found. “Improving… Read moreDementia patients ignored by hospital staff (UK)
This edition covers:Section 1: Headline findings from the Whole System Demonstrator Programme Section 2: Headlines on the Northern Ireland Telehealth announcement Section 3: News headlines for week commencing 28 November 2011 Section 4: News headlines for week commencing 5 December… Read moreTelecare LIN December newsletter published (UK)
Paul Corrigan used to be an adviser to a couple of UK Secretaries of State for Health and, later, to Tony Blair. You’d therefore expect great things from his blog entry So what can telehealth and telecare achieve for NHS… Read moreSo what can telehealth and telecare achieve for NHS patients?
Two excellent, informative and thought-provoking articles in this month’s newsletter from the The Centre for Usable Home Technology (CUHTec): The Role of Technology in Improving Medication Prescription Adherance[sic] by Kevin Doughty and Accessible Digital Banking The Needs of Eighty and… Read moreMedication prescription adherence and the banking problems of 80 and 90 year-olds
At last the launch of Northern Ireland’s remote telemonitoring healthcare service. Given the track record of how slow the recuitment of people to the WSD programme and the North Yorkshire and Yorks implementations has been we are given to wondering… Read moreNorthern Ireland remote telemonitoring healthcare service launched
Here’s an item for suppliers looking at developing dedicated smartphones for the health/wellness/telecare market. It describes a system that helps configure the hardware/software mix: BlueSpec system determines circuitry and code for electronics designers from GizMag
Importing or copying the latest ‘e-health’ technology from developed countries may not be the best way forward for health services in Africa, the attendees at the AfriHealth conference in Kenya has heard. The high-tech healthcare could come at the expense… Read moreAfrican e-health 'moving in wrong direction'
From TANN: Ireland – The European Centre for Connected Health (ECCH), established ‘to promote improvements in patient care through the use of technology, and to fast track new products and innovation in the Health and Social Care system in Northern Ireland’… Read moreECCH changes its name – to CCHSC (N. Ireland)
Sensible advice from telecare expert Guy Dewsbury, on the Telecare Blog: Choosing a telecare mobile phone.
Frankly, Editor Steve gritted his teeth when he saw ‘Low-cost alternative to home care’ as the tagline on the Memo (Memo Touch?) website (http://memotouch.com/) and Gizmag didn’t think much of it either, but for more techie reasons. Read the comments… Read moreCan a tablet computer be a low-cost alternative to home care? (US)
