An exclusive in the other (non-Pulse) source of information for UK GPs, GP Online tells how Department of Health (DH) officials clumsily used a Freedom of Information get-out clause to prevent GP Online from getting its hands on the Whole… Read moreDH's ham-fisted block of WSD results (UK)

Roy Lilley has ably chaired the TSA conference for the past two years and has a positive interest in telecare and telehealth monitoring. He has been active in generating interest in the field amongst the thousands of NHS managers to… Read moreRoy Lilley on WSD: "There is something very strange about this trial, or the data, or how it's been done" (UK)

1 May: 10:00 am – 11:00 am San Carlos Room Second Level, San Jose Convention Center Marriott The Merinoff Symposium at ATA is billed as a one hour breakout session to help shape future approaches in using telemedicine to manage… Read moreTelemedicine and Parkinson's Disease: the Merinoff Symposium at ATA

Spring is sprung, and so are data breaches. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has a very nifty feature of allowing one to search and sort for them. So far in 2012, not including hacking and ‘unknown causes’, medical related data breaches total… Read moreData breaches: top hits of 2012 so far (US)

Conference organisers should take note of the following suggestions from Dr. Ronan Kavanagh. Rebooting the medical meeting – 9 lessons from TEDMED. And, if there is an associated trade exhibition area, they might also think about giving free entrance tickets… Read moreRebooting the medical meeting – 9 lessons from TEDMED

Produced for the Wales NHS Informatics Service, this 6½ minute animated visionary description of eHealth (EHRs, telehealth and education) is receiving a warm welcome. Anything missing, do you think? [Heads-up thanks to Peter Range, Managing Director, Alere Connected Health] And… Read moreWhat is eHealth? (Welsh animation)

A Tunstall-funded study by FACE Recording and Measurement Systems [Summary PDF download] claims that each UK council could save between £3m and £7.8m per year by moving from other forms of care to appropriate telecare. This is an extrapolation from… Read moreTelecare could save UK councils £3m to £7.8m per year

If you choked at the headline you may choke even more at the way the UK’s website for GPs Pulse actually writes up a recently-published Mayo Clinic study. Apart from the anti-telehealth bias in the item Telemedicine ‘trebles death rate’… Read moreTelehealth ‘trebles death rate’ in elderly patients

“Over more than three years, the members of the epSOS project, cofunded by the European Commission, have invested hours of hard work as well as enthusiasm into the development of feasible cross-border eHealth services, addressing technical, semantic and legal interoperability… Read moreDevelopment of cross-border eHealth services in the EU

It’s the first for a while – a thoughtful article from the US on the terminology of aging and older people: ‘Elderly’ No More by Judith Graham in the New York Times. It not only explores the issue but has a… Read more"…none of the young-old want to be identified with the old-old" (US)