Just flagging up this story in the terminology category, although as the ‘Telecare Crisis Line‘ began in 1989, it has a prior claim to the term. Drat! I was going to set up a ‘telecare crisis line’ for telecare services… Read moreTelecare Crisis and Caring Line
Adam Vincent, Caitlin M Cusack, Eric Pan, Julie M. Hook, David C. Kaelber and Blackford Middleton from Partners Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School produced a one-page conference poster for the AMIA 2007 Symposium suggesting a taxonomy for telehealth. This… Read moreTelehealth terminology: a contribution to the debate
In this item you will find links to two new important (and free) reports published by the Califonia Health Care Foundation. But start with the blog item by one of the authors, which puts them into context. Start here: Anytime,… Read moreAnytime, anywhere health
These items are for the ‘terminology’ category: pointing up that the terms ‘telehealth’ and ‘telecare’ are used in a variety of ways. Native Telehealth Outreach and Technical Assistance Program TeleCare Exceptional Customer Service Over the Phone
The full title of this item is A Second Life for eHealth: Prospects for the Use of 3-D Virtual Worlds in Clinical Psychology. (If you are not up to speed with what Second Life is, read this Wikipedia entry.) The… Read moreA Second Life for eHealth
Tunstall press releases back from a two month break. Like the press releases that claimed that Nottingham, Walsall and Hull are mainstreaming telehealth using Tunstall equipment, they still don’t tell us how they define ‘mainstreaming’. Is that every single patient… Read moreSwindon PCT launches mainstream telehealth monitoring
This is a complex story even if you understand the medical system in the US and have been following what has been happening in terms of disease management (DM) and physician payment regimes controlled by the Centers for Medicare &… Read more"Medical Home" gains momentum
An interesting story on the use of information on MP3 players for people with asthma to listen to when an attack threatens. However, is calling it ‘Telecare for Asthma’ stretching the definition of telecare too far? Do leave a comment… Read moreMP3 players lend an ear to asthma patients
Tunstall starts to stake a claim to the terminology ‘highground’ with the promotion of the term ‘telehealthcare’ to indicate the interconnectedness of telehealth and telecare. Tunstall press release reproduced by eHealth Insider. Will it catch on? Or does it add… Read moreTelehealthcare
Apart from the intrinsic interest of the content, this article clearly raises a terminology issue for people who refer to telecare-enabled accommodation as a ‘smart home’. (See also this Telecare Soapbox item.)
