An interesting opportunity for someone…a 12-week paid internship analysing the national telecare market [good luck!] and helping design a marketing campaign for Flagship Housing, based in Dereham, Norfolk. Closing Date for Applications: 19 November 2012. Details here.
This editor’s nose tells him that the organisation promoting this franchise has not thought through whether or not bodies other than independent operators can legally get involved in such schemes, or whether they would want to. Or maybe he is… Read moreTelecare retail franchising for councils, NHS, CCGs and independent providers? (UK)
“In COPD, telehealthcare [where did they find that word?] interventions can significantly reduce the risk of emergency department attendance and hospitalisation, but has little effect on the risk of death.” is the conclusion of the meta-analyses [beware!] of 10 telehealth… Read moreTelehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Cochrane Review and meta-analysis
The Isles of Scilly, 30 miles off the coast of Cornwall, like many communities somewhat remote from ‘proper’ hospitals need facilities for telemedicine videoconferencing consultations. So thumbs-up to the resourceful islanders who bought some equipment via eBay. They now just… Read moreIsles of Scilly's eBay telemedicine (UK)
A study just published in the BMJ’s ‘Open Access’ section reports on an evaluation of Simple Telehealth’s Florence system that is a simple, interactive mobile phone texting service with blood pressure management intervention. For three months (or less if appropriate)… Read moreUsing Simple Telehealth in primary care to reduce blood pressure: a service evaluation (UK)
Safeguarding data to the highest standards must be a concern of everyone involved in telecare and telehealth monitoring. That’s why editor Donna has flagged up reported breaches in the ‘States from time to time, and why Tunstall, despite the over-hyped… Read moreThe Bad, the Bad and the Ugly: NHS data breaches
Microsoft’s Sean Nolan in the Family Health Guy waxes lyrical about the integrative potential of Windows 8 for health-related applications, such as remote monitoring data collection with electronic health records – specifically the Microsoft Health Vault – see his link… Read moreWindows 8 is HUGE for health – and almost here!
October’s Telecare LIN newsletter has been published and covers the conference season and recent announcements on dementia and housing funding, technology for nurses and the possibility of a paperless NHS by the end of 2015. New NHS bodies are being… Read moreOctober's Telecare LIN newsletter published (UK)
Heads-up on an article in Sociol. Health Illn. Ageing with telecare: care or coercion in austerity? (Abstract) by Mort M, Roberts C, Callén B. The authors argue that “home-monitoring based telecare has the potential to coerce older people unless we… Read moreAgeing with telecare: care or coercion in austerity?
The US-based Government Health IT website slightly mangles the message in this report: Northern Ireland health minister touting home projects during Boston visit. It shows how difficult it can sometimes be between these two cultures separated by a single language…. Read moreNorthern Ireland health minister touting home projects during Boston visit
