Healthcare IT news in brief
In this week’s health IT round-up we cover the NHS calling in military help on cyber attack, a tweeting surgeon, and an alternative to NHSmail.
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Dallas: telehealth’s reboot reviewed
Whatever happened to the massive and well-funded Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale programme, and did it deliver any results? Laura Stevens sets out to find out.
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Scots’ Dallas project fails to recruit
A £10 million digital health project in Scotland has recruited just one quarter of expected users.
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Survey confirms telehealth ignorance
More than 90% of people in the UK do not know what telehealth and telecare is, research from the government’s Technology Strategy Board has found.
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Liverpool aims for 1,000 on telehealth
Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust aims to have 1,000 telehealth patients within the next two years.
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Liverpool builds Feel Good Factory
Liverpool Primary Care Trust has been awarded a Technology Strategy Board grant of £7.7m to develop an independent living programme for the elderly using telehealth, as part of the DALLAS programme.
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