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In the news pre-holiday was the cease and desist action of the Maryland Attorney General’s office taken against locally based medical alert company, Medical Alert Buyers Alliance. An alert is only as good as its service in case of emergency–and… Read moreMaryland AG cracks down on medical alert system that isn't
Quite good BBC report related to the WSD headline results, featuring a person with diabetes who uses the Philips Motiva system in Newham, London. Health care by TV and remote control.
In a new article that will interest most Telecare Aware readers, consultant Guy Dewsbury wonders about wandering… “I wonder, are the wanderers left to wander, and only after they have wandered several times with potentially dangerous consequences, are they then… Read moreWondering about wandering (UK)
Dementia patients (a quarter of all admissions to hospital) are suffering at the hands of undertrained hospital staff who ignore pleas for help and fail to treat them as individuals, a damning report into standards of care has found. “Improving… Read moreDementia patients ignored by hospital staff (UK)
This edition covers:Section 1: Headline findings from the Whole System Demonstrator Programme Section 2: Headlines on the Northern Ireland Telehealth announcement Section 3: News headlines for week commencing 28 November 2011 Section 4: News headlines for week commencing 5 December… Read moreTelecare LIN December newsletter published (UK)
Paul Corrigan used to be an adviser to a couple of UK Secretaries of State for Health and, later, to Tony Blair. You’d therefore expect great things from his blog entry So what can telehealth and telecare achieve for NHS… Read moreSo what can telehealth and telecare achieve for NHS patients?
Despite a typically inelegant, groanworthy New York Post headline, the story by Mayrav Saar is anything but. It outlines eight broad areas of medical advances and breakthroughs that have come about as a direct result of US combat injuries in Iraq… Read moreRoundup of medical advances for wounded warriors
NY-based PERS and call center provider American Medical Alert (AMAC), which had announced its merger with Tunstall in September, today announced their intent to settle at least two class action shareholders’ lawsuits filed in Queens County, New York City. This was… Read moreAMAC shareholders lawsuit may be settled
Two excellent, informative and thought-provoking articles in this month’s newsletter from the The Centre for Usable Home Technology (CUHTec): The Role of Technology in Improving Medication Prescription Adherance[sic] by Kevin Doughty and Accessible Digital Banking The Needs of Eighty and… Read moreMedication prescription adherence and the banking problems of 80 and 90 year-olds
At last the launch of Northern Ireland’s remote telemonitoring healthcare service. Given the track record of how slow the recuitment of people to the WSD programme and the North Yorkshire and Yorks implementations has been we are given to wondering… Read moreNorthern Ireland remote telemonitoring healthcare service launched
