The King’s Fund-managed Whole System Demonstrator Action Network (WSDAN) website will close down on 18 November 2011. After that date visitors will be redirected to the King’s Fund website’s new telehealth and telecare area. It will be there that the… Read moreGoodbye WSDAN, hello King's Fund Telehealth and Telecare section (UK)
A much more exhaustive list of conferences and other events than we have the time or inclination to maintain can be found on the Wireless Health Strategies website, here. The list covers “wireless health, mHealth, telemedicine, healthcare IT, health informatics,… Read moreList of 'global health innovation' events
In The Times on Saturday, there was a long-ish item berating Age UK’s Aid Call for being slow to replace 8000 old Tunstall Lifeline alarm units with Tynetec alternatives. 18 months after the problem was identified the change over is… Read moreAge UK personal alarm cover-up claims
To help service providers determine the most appropriate device for their clients, T-Cubed and their partners have conducted research on over 15 bed occupancy monitoring devices currently on the market, ranging from standard telecare offerings to systems that employ technologies… Read moreBed occupancy monitors: new comparative report (UK)
17 months ago we flagged up (via Laurie Orlov) the development of shoes with built-in GPS tracking for people with dementia. [Coming soon: GPS Shoes TA May 2010] but now, according to a Gizmag item they have received FDA approval… Read moreShoes with embedded GPS to go on sale in US
The Yorkshire and Humber Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) has produced and made available some useful resources, in particular an on-line Telehealth Toolkit and PDF workbooks on Teleconsultation and Telemonitoring. All three can be accessed from this web page…. Read moreTelehealth resources from Yorkshire & Humber (UK)
The Jordan Times announces that a pilot scheme using a system set up by Cisco is to be extended to “create a database of patients’ medical histories across the Kingdom, covering all state-run hospitals, the Royal Medical Services, Al Hussein… Read moreJordan goes all-out for Cisco-based eHealth system
Happtique (Healthcare-APP-bouTIQUE) provides a growing app catalog of what it calls “hApps” or healthcare applications. “In other app stores, searches are limited to ‘medical’ or ‘health’, generating hundreds of generalized pages of apps. Apple recently attempted to develop its own… Read moreHapptique: making sense of the health app catalog
Readers who have been tracking the progress of UK telehealth monitoring device company Isansys Lifecare [TA items: Jan 2011; May 2011] will be interested to note that it has now set up an Indian company, Isansys Lifecare Systems Pvt Ltd…. Read moreIsansys Lifecare (UK) sets up in India
A review by Audit Scotland of telehealth uptake by the NHS has found that the system is generally not considered an option when NHS boards are planning or redesigning services despite the potential for saving £1,000 on the treatment of… Read moreScotland's telehealth uptake "has been inconsistent"
