Virgin Care axes services from £270m East Staffs contract
Virgin Care has cut services from its prime provider contract with East Staffordshire CCG citing ‘significant changes to the commissioning landscape.’
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Oxehealth secures ‘world first’ accreditation for optical vital signs tech
Oxehealth’s vital signs software uses an optical sensor to detect pulse rate and doesn’t need to be attached to the skin, meaning it can be used remotely.
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Leicestershire Partnership embraces telehealth for digital heart failure service
The service uses Spirit Digital’s CliniTouch Vie remote monitoring platform and is designed to keep heart failure patients out of hospital.
Digital Patient
Special Report: Remote monitoring and self-care
The use of technology to support self-care is considered to be a holy grail of any sustainable health service. So how can the NHS utilise and share such information to improve patient experience and empower them to manage their health better? Jennifer Trueland reports.
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Secretive medical device firm raises €40m for remote monitoring tech
A Dublin-based and somewhat clandestine medical device firm has raised €40 million to further advance remote monitoring technologies for people with chronic heart diseases.
Digital Patient
Digital patient services offer ‘bright hope’ – Nuffield
However enthusiasm for wearables, remote monitoring and video consultations needs to be tempered by lack of clear evidence, the Nuffield Trust warns.
Digital Patient
Remote heart failure monitoring tested in Buckinghamshire
A portal aggregating heart failure data for more than a hundred patients will be deployed in Buckinghamshire.
Digital Patient
Camera tech to replace pulse oximeter clip trialled in Fife
A method of detecting blood oxygen levels and pulse that swaps a traditional pulse oximeter clip for camera technology is to be given a six month trial at one of the main hospitals in Fife.
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Stevens launches innovation ‘test beds’
Seven ‘test bed’ sites for innovations such as remote monitoring and wearable technologies will be announced today by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens.
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Joe’s view: is panoramic
While in Istanbul, Joe McDonald dreams up the Sultan 3000 remote carer viewing service; a system to encourage good behaviour, if only the IG issues can be overcome.
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