The Wessex Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) is a Southampton University-based initiative that supports telehealth and telecare activity across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset and South Wiltshire and is a great example of what can be done with… Read moreNews from the Wessex HIEC telehealth and telecare work stream (UK)

From today (October 29, 2012), smokers in parts of the UK can use a unique online professional support service to help them quit smoking. The SmokeFreeLife online support service available via the website of QUIT, the UK stop-smoking charity, offers… Read moreQuitting smokers supported online (UK)

Just received from Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation, a document (2 pages, PDF download here AMENDED Tues 30th, 12:15) with some additional background information and some new consultation event dates. Previous TA item, Another UK telecare and telehealth framework agreement planned… Read moreProposed telecare, telehealth framework agreement – new info and consultation dates (UK)

As part of the Emerald Group Publishing’s ‘journal of the week’ campaign, there is free access to content that is usually paid for in the Journal of Assistive Technologies, but only from now until Sunday 4 November. The Journal of… Read moreJournal of Assistive Technologies: Free access until 4th November

First, read this recent (17 Oct 2012) press release: 1000 Patients Across Northern Ireland are Benefiting from Improved Care Through Telemonitoring. Then, for context, read this item from Telecare Aware two years ago: Q: What’s the difference between an African… Read moreThe long and winding road that leads to your door…in Northern Ireland

Bosch’s UK health division is to participate in trials and, presumably, development work, in a partnership between Warwick University and its Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH) to “design new technologies and evaluate existing ones to improve the lives of thousands… Read moreBosch in UK Digital Health Lab collaboration

Cornish councillors, prompted by a large petition, have stopped for further reconsideration, an outsourcing of services that included significant telehealth and telecoaching elements. Here’s one councillor’s blog about it: Shared Services Halted. For some background published before today’s vote, see… Read moreCornish democracy slams brakes on IT outsourcing (including telehealth) (UK)

With the aim of reducing the number of patients presenting at secondary care, the telehealth service in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles is trialing the remote support of patients with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs). Labmate-online item.

Vancouver-based Lionsgate Technologies Inc. is launching a universal interface that transforms smartphones, tablets and laptops into mobile medical diagnostic tools capable of real-time vital signs monitoring. It will connect sensors through the universal audio port of virtually any mobile device…. Read moreLionsgate turns smartphones into 'medical monitors' (Canada)

The GPS Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching framework agreement is still current and, despite all the well-known problems with these agreements that Telecare Aware has highlighted over the years, someone else is planning another! The Yorkshire-based organisation YPOThe Lincolnshire-based Eastern Shires… Read moreAnother UK telecare and telehealth framework agreement planned – from Jan 2013