Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed an algorithm for detecting cardiovascular problems using pulse oxometry during sleep. They are now working on a portable device, presumably for use with people in their own homes. Cardiovascular disease can be… Read moreCardiovascular disease can be detected earlier during sleep (Sweden)
GP Online runs a report on the Royal College of Physicians event in London last week highlighting that Dr Mark Dancy, England’s clinical chairman of the NHS Heart Improvement programme was talking down expectations that the Department of Health (DH)… Read moreFunding shortage to slow NHS roll-out of telehealth
Regular readers will expect editor Steve to be reaching for the Valium when a news item starts with the sentence “Australian [sic] is moving slowly towards the use of telehealthcare…” but the writer redeems herself by making a distinction between… Read moreGetting smart, slowly (Australia)
The website of the EU-funded BRAID programme (part of the ITC research theme ‘Cooperation’ of the 7th European Framework Programme) has noted a spate of recent stories from Portugal about people who died alone and remained undiscovered for a long… Read moreEU BRAID programme highlights people dead and undiscovered in Portugal
If your product or service has a mobile component and you can demonstrate that it improves people’s behaviour when it comes to health, then consider nominating it for the Health Behavior Awards 2011. Here’s the link to the fairly painless… Read morePersuasive Tech Lab Health Behavior Award nominations sought
Jo Dalton is an ex-Intel innovation centre employee turned businessman with an ambition to turn Ireland into an ‘international healthcare services centre’. His international service will build on a health monitoring service he intends to launch in the summer, which… Read moreIreland as an 'international healthcare services centre'?
The ‘Who’s Available?’ job seekers’ page is back for people looking for employment in the telehealth and telecare fields to post – free of charge – about their availability. See ‘Jobs‘ menu item above.
Skyguard Ltd., which has recently become active in the UK telecare market, today reveals the MySOS key-fob sized device which “weighs just 40 grams and is small enough to be conveniently and discretely [sic] worn as a pendant, or attached… Read moreSkyguard reveals "UK’s smallest personal safety device"
According to Housing e-Academy, “the housing sector has been slow to switch on to the range of telecare available and the huge benefits it could bring to their residents” so they have set up an online course An Introduction to… Read moreFree telecare course for housing workers and tenants
The Yorkshire Post yesterday ran a ‘local company does well’ story on Tunstall’s success in the Northern Ireland Remote Monitoring Service tender. It also reports that the Leeds office of law firm DLA Piper advised ECCH on the procurement. You… Read moreTunstall's local paper reveals more on NI contract
