Telecare Aware Update Listings

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Business Week-“Aging In Place” special report-Intel, GE, Philips
(Four items in one)

Telehealth being ‘levered’ by healthcare reform? (US)
(Intel’s Eric Dishman’s blog)

Telecare support for US veterans to be tested
(Research news)

“Creepy” medication compliance via microchips in pills
(Pointer to the future)

University of Hawaii selects American Telecare for ‘connected care’
(He mea waiwai loa)

Stopping Leicester’s telehealth project: blame the PCTs
(Update on that bizarre decision)

DH Care Networks September Telecare eNewsletter
(Pointer to some useful info)

Window shopping for telecare
(Amusing item)

Telecare services and false reassurance?
(Brent approves not having pendant to hand when you need it most)

Primary care screening tool helps identify falls-risk patients
(Useful, maybe?)

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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 cord proves useful)

Eric Silfen, CMO Philips Healthcare, sizes the market
(Industry news)

eHealth: Transforming Health and Social Care Services Through Innovations in Technology
(Conference)

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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 ‘good idea’)

Boeing funds new telehealth company (Canada)
(Industry news)

Report: Mobile Tools Can Improve Chronic Disease Management
(At no cost)

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 saves life. Commenters bicker (US)
(Good-news story, but…)

Can telehealth really improve patient care? Podcast (Canada)
(Can it?)

Telecare quiz
(For ER fans)

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)

Birmingham’s telecare good news story sabotaged (UK)
(Words ‘foot’ and ‘shoot’ come to mind)

Now Scotland’s got…neck alarms
(Oh dear…)

August’s Telecare Aware is sponsored by Docobo
http://www.telecareaware.com/rd/docobo.html (link to Docobo)

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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 the way to Amarillo
(Lessons learned)

Honeywell HomMed telehealth webinar invitation
(You are invited)

Telecare bibliography
(Useful list)

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

If you are looking for a telehealth strategy, read ‘Hull’s Telehealth Institute’

New Continua Certified A&D devices announced
(Industry news)

Telecare in action: example
(Telecare with a person with a stroke)

Hull’s Telehealth Institute (UK)
(Where is it?)

Take two digital pills and call me in the morning
(Pointers to the future)

Overcoming the challenges to eHealth
(Conference reports)

SPARC workshops (UK)
(Conference news)

2009 Connected Health Symposium (US)
(Conference news)

Tunstall predicts redundancies
(Industry news)

Telecare Soapbox: Can the ‘old old’ have best lives when the pressure is to isolate them?
(Opinion)

“Like a duck on a junebug”
(Someone ‘gets it’)

Edinburgh to double spending on telecare
(So why isn’t everyone else?)

The role of telehealth in medical tourism
(Another angle)

Two-cities test for ‘intimacy’ device
(Pointer to the future?)

Multicenter trial of heart failure remote monitoring reaches 1,650 patients
(Progress report)

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A reader has asked for a recommendation of a good patent lawyer…
If you know one, let me know and I will start a list on Telecare Aware.

Columba/Vega bracelets’ marketing to be revitalised
(You read it here first)

Is slow telecare adoption a ‘penguin problem’?
(Interesting concept)

Realtime monitoring of vital signs in remote patients
(New product news)

Project Lifesaver often lives up to its name
(But could be put to more use)

Wales’ first domestic violence telecare line for Anglesey
(Missed opportunity?)

Medicare Telehealth Enhancement Act 2009
(Summary)

Tunstall branding success
(Again)

DLF telecare training September, London
(Places still available)