I hear the clink of champagne glasses at Tunstall’s HQ today as their ‘telehealthcare’ branding wheeze pays off big-time as the Scottish Government announces that “Ten million pounds is to be invested over four years to improve care by growing… Read moreScottish Government's £10m marketing gift to Tunstall

The experiences and thoughts of Dr Pope who has extensive experience of video-based consultations. An entertaining read, with thanks to David Doherty of 3G Doctor. Lessons from Richard Pope, Video Consulting Diabetes Consultant.

American Samoa in the Pacific is home to a reserve unit from the 100th Infantry Battalion and, being 2300 miles from Hawaii, lacks access to mental health care. A container has been adapted as a three-booth videoconferencing unit and the… Read moreUS army uses 80-foot container for mental health telehealth booths

Alere Connected Health has released results from the service its newly-acquired Home Telehealth Limited has been providing to over 1000 people with long term conditions in Belfast during the past three years. [Hmm…Northern Ireland…three years…that sounds familiar…] The upshot is… Read moreBuying cost effective telehealth services in Northern Ireland

We are looking for more contributing editors to join those who have volunteered already for the following sites: France and Italy (posting in French and Italian), Canada (English and/or French – a person with networks in eastern Canada, perhaps), Rising… Read moreMore contributing editors wanted to support existing TANN websites

Observe the American obsession with health and looks (rather than care and function) in yet another Wall Street Journal (WSJ) design-related item, just a month after the last. At least Can a Medic Alert System Be Stylish? has a less… Read moreCan a medic alert system be stylish?

Perhaps I [editor Steve] have been too hard on the people at Northern Ireland’s European Centre for Connected Health (ECCH) for the extremely slow procurement of the NI Remote Monitoring Service. Their languorous approach may have emanated from their ultimate… Read moreNI Remote Monitoring Service – did the rot start at the top?

Researchers in Belfast are investigating how small sensors carried by members of the public, in items such as smartphones, could communicate with each other to create potentially vast body-to-body networks (BBNs). A pointer-to-the-future item from Toni Bunting on the TANN:… Read more‘Wireless’ humans could form backbone of new mobile networks

InsideHamilton waves the flag for its local company m-Health Solutions, which has developed an “auto-record, auto-send 14-day digital cardiac monitoring system patients can attach themselves and record cardiac issues as they occur.” The device apparently atttaches to a Blackberry for… Read moreLittle black box allows cardiac diagnosis from nearly anywhere (Canada)