Telecare Aware Update Listings

Leeds OTs evaluate use of Just Checking by the Mental Health Intermediate Care Service (UK)(Evaluation report) More on medication dispensing(Follow-up item) News roundup 7 Oct(4 items in one… your feedback requested) Encouragement for telehealth startups via ‘levers’?(Role for US health reform funding?) Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) to integrate into NHS 24(Visionary development) Tower Hamlets […]

Nothing interesting to read? Here are 13 possibilities posted since Friday: mHealth in developing countries, Ringful(Where does all the data go?) Discussion of low-energy wireless connectivity(Throwing light on technical issues) Using Dependability Telecare Assessment to assess telecare equipment(Another application for the DTA tool) Tynetec’s commitment to growth(Industry news: new Board members) Telehealth Ethics(Article preview) O2 […]

Telecare Soapbox: Challenge to Service Commissioners(With suggested 14-point list of features to include) Sponsorship opportunity (Help us keep you better informed) Another type of ‘aging in place’(Can you win the high street market one building at a time?) Canada’s got telehealth(Of a sort) Bosch Healthcare garners Frost & Sullivan award(Observations on Bosch’s US strategy) More […]

Finally, a better fall detector? (myHalo Clip)(First of several better detectors in the pipeline?) Beyond ‘smart homes’-‘Home health pavilion’ added to EHX 2010(Moving out of the ‘forever tested’) “The patient of the future”, engaged (HealthLeaders magazine)(Technology changing the relationship with doctors) Telehealth / telecare project dropouts(WSD insight) UK Government telecare policy and the Scottish Telecare […]

Telecare Soapbox: Are Partnership Agreements Stifling Innovation?(Are you stuck in one?) Remote monitoring helps Henry Ford reduce admissions for heart failure (US)(Pay attention Leicester!) ‘Abusive’ 98-year-old evicted (UK)(Hmm…) Jaltek Group (UK) and Ericsson (SE) introduce wireless health monitoring(Industry news) Telecare as part of cuts packages (Scotland)(Bad publicity by association?) Bungling burglars alert telecare call centre(Pull […]

Is it a mad, mad world? Read the first item and see! Leicester NHS’s bizarre telehealth decision(Read it and weep) Philips Lifeline issues pendants safety notice(Pendant danger) Three items on respiratory telehealth(Adding to the evidence) Guardian article: Remote control (UK)(UK insight) PerVaya looking for distributors(Industry news) Researchers design rooms with sensors that help dependent people(Another […]

Today, some info and and few questions… Sunderland: a telecare marker and challenge (UK)(Good Telecare implementation) Free ehealth masterclass at Imperial College (UK)(Act quickly) Smartphone apps point to telecare/telehealth future(Pointer to the future) Chubb wins substantial care home contract (UK)(Industry news) Remote patient monitoring now means in hospital too(Extending the definition of remote patients) Pendant […]

Today’s offerings will make you laugh and cry. (Mostly the latter.) Panorama: different views on loss of wardens(Hot UK topic) Northern Ireland’s shameful anniversary(Procurement drags on) Australia to invest $60m in telehealth, emergency response and e-education(Making a start) The success of telehealth(Who’s the soul of discretion, then?) People with dementia getting GPS tracking (UK)(Cautious trials) […]

August’s Telecare Aware is sponsored by Docobohttp://www.telecareaware.com/rd/docobo.html (link to Docobo) – – – – – – – – Which of these will kick off your week? A visit to Philips Lifeline (US)(Interesting stats) DH Care Networks Telecare Newsletter(Roundups) Searching for health reform in all the wrong places (US)(US healthcare reform opinion from Intel) Videoconferencing not […]

New ‘smart’ medication dispensing device(New product) Telehealth social networking site(New site) Nurses help invent high-tech gadgets(New involvement) Emergency medical device franchise launches eMed-Alert(New business opportunity?) Home health monitoring on the “slope of enlightenment”(New endorsement) The Changing Climate of Care – Telehealth’s Role(New conference, Canada) Telecare Aware: Telecare and Telehealth News