Worcestershire PCT's falls prevention website (UK)
Quite different from the Philips sponsored ‘Learn not to fall’ site featured in Telecare aware a little while ago. You might like to compare them: Worcestershire; Learn not to fall
Tag: telecare
A Second Life for eHealth
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
CSIP's August Telecare eNewsletter published
CSIP’s August Telecare eNewsletter has just been published (download pdf version). Content highlights are: a reminder about the Whole System Demonstrator Action Network website (but you have already signed up to that, haven’t you?) a promise that the headline information… Read moreCSIP's August Telecare eNewsletter published
Safety fears over new BT lines (UK)
Hype-y headline for this article from the national daily, The Telegraph, flags up the issue to the general public of the incompatibility of some older telecare (community alarm) equipment with the new national network (21CN) being introduced to the UK… Read moreSafety fears over new BT lines (UK)
Free personal care costs in Scotland soar by £100m
And what better motivation could there be to get on with the telecare/telehealth agenda? Pity England isn’t in the same position. Article from the Scottish Herald.
SCIE research report: Assistive Technology and Older People (UK)
The Social Care Institute for Excellence’s (SCIE) latest research report Assistive Technology and Older People (August 2008) is somewhat disappointing. It does attempt to make it clear that ‘assistive technology’ is a much broader term than just telecare and telehealth… Read moreSCIE research report: Assistive Technology and Older People (UK)
Protected: Buckinghamshire: Three New Telecare Posts
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Medical Intelligence announces 2008 second quarter results (Canada)
Medical Intelligence, which produces the Columba GPS bracelet and the Urgentys device for lone workers, has posted a
Swindon PCT launches mainstream telehealth monitoring
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
Woman uses life alert system to inform police of robbery
After a few stories lately where people were failed to be helped, a good news story, where a woman talked to her call centre after the thief ripped out the phone handsets. Item from West Palm Beach News.