Florence (Flo) Simple Telehealth is a system developed in the West Midlands to help community health teams manage patients – collecting vital signs readings and communicating with them via smartphones. It’s claimed to be low cost enough and easy enough… Read more'Ultra-low cost' Simple Telehealth patient management (UK)
Up to 40 UK hospitals will fail by 2013 without radical reform of their working practices (or a £5 billion bail out), a report, produced by Professor Paul Corrigan, Tony Blair’s former special adviser on health, and healthcare business expert… Read moreNHS needs telehealth, according to new report
Always on the lookout for interesting statistics on the effectiveness of telecare/telehealth, Staffordshire Council’s medication reminder project reported in a wider-ranging Guardian article caught editor Steve’s eye. Non-UK readers may also find the rest of the article which shows British… Read moreMedication reminders – saving £11.49 per £1 invested
Robert Bosch Healthcare celebrates a report on the benefits of Health Buddy remote patient monitoring from a CMS study which showed cost reductions for high-cost patients with chronic diseases such as CHF, COPD and/or diabetes of between 7% and 13%…. Read moreRemote patient monitoring for reduced costs and mortality (US)
Time Warner Cable Business Class has begun a trial of healthcare services in Maine, offering health providers the ability to communicate with each other and patients over a secure community intranet. The unimaginatively named Time Warner Healthcare Solutions provides a… Read moreTime Warner Cable tests suite of telehealth offerings in Maine
Read to the end (page 3) of this NYT pointer-to-the-future article to catch up on the NeuralPhone. “…the results were magical. As soon as I chose Bill Gates, a photo of Gates splashed onto the phone’s screen…The phone seemed to… Read moreComing next? The NeuralPhone
The West Midlands developed AskTARA website is to be launched nationally on 1 October 2011 (NHS Local announcement). The site will initially target telecare and telehealth products, but will expand to take in a range of services such as personal… Read moreAskTARA for national (UK) launch
Here’s just one reason why developing a universal EHR or PHR is so difficult. There’s much more variety in people’s naming systems than you might expect. So your very first database field gives you a headache – or it should… Read moreWhy a universal EHR or PHR is so difficult
As when Bosch announced it had joined the Continua Alliance [TA item], it’s odd to see something you assumed to be the case being trumpeted. Tunstall press release Tunstall Response Achieves Prestigious TSA Platinum Award. [The ‘Platinum’ level is the… Read moreTunstall Response meets TSA standard (UK)
Sign-of-the-times thought-piece by Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University asks whether the pressures on older people in the UK might lead them into expressing their frustrations by ‘direct action’. Are older people angry enough to riot? Guardian.
