2008: the year telecare grows up?
A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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Docobo extend telehealth to mobile phones
Telehealth specialist Docobo has developed a new mobile phone application enabling remote monitoring of patients with long term health conditions. An extension of its existing doc@HOME system, the application is an integrated telehealth solution for the remote management of patients with long term conditions (LTCs), designed for people who need their LTCs monitored whilst still […]
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Stockport practice pioneers online asthma self-care
A GP practice in Stockport has successfully piloted a groundbreaking new online monitoring service for asthma patients enabling them to better self-manage their condition. Marple Cottage surgery worked with primary care systems provider EMIS to develop the internet-based service, which allows patients to complete regular reviews of their condition from home without having to always […]
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DH details 100 assistive technology projects it has funded
Nearly 100 research projects on assistive technology including telecare and telehealth schemes were funded by the government or the European Union in 2006/7, according to a report from the Department of Health (DH). The DH annual report on research and development in assistive technology notes an increase in the importance attached to telecare to support […]
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Patients helped by remote monitoring, study finds
Remote monitoring of patients with chronic heart failure has a positive impact on clinical outcomes, according to a study published this week. A review published in the BMJ found that structured telephone support or telemonitoring by a health professional reduced admissions to hospital for chronic heart failure and deaths from all causes by nearly one […]
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Central Surrey use telemedicine to tackle COPD
Central Surrey Health NHS Trust have shown that using telemedicine as support for treating patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can bring benefits to both patients and nurses by allowing close, accurate and easy monitoring, potentially leading to earlier discharges. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate, Julia Davey, community respiratory nurse specialist […]
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Telecare firm supports learning disability project
Telecare provider, Tunstall, has joined a new project called Through Assistive Technology to Employment (TATE), designed to increase employability for people with learning difficulties and support individual living. Tunstall were approached by the project team and agreed to help to develop and mainstream assistive technology devices and telecare systems to help meet the needs of […]
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Unwinding the cord
NHS Direct aims to develop its core health advice service to offer a range of remote care additional services to the NHS. Fiona Barr talks to chief operating officer Dr Mike Sadler.
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Technology ‘should be used in long term conditions’
Technology should be used in several ways to help people who have long-term conditions care for themselves, although caution must be exercised as not everybody has access to it, new guidance from the Department of Health says. The guidance, ‘Supporting people with long-term conditions to self-care’, sets out examples of what central government, professionals and PCTs and […]
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Tunstall teams up with Honeywell HomMed
Tunstall, the UK telecare and telehealth solutions specialist, has formed an distribution and alliance agreement with Honeywell HomMed, a leading US provider of remote patient monitoring devices. Under the agreement Tunstall will offer Honeywell’s HomMed Genesis monitor throughout the UK, already used by 350,000 patients. Tunstall says it will target the chronic disease management market, […]
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