Welsh councils turn to digital in bid to improve telecare service offering
Over two thirds of councils in Wales are switching from analogue to digital technology to enhance their telecare service offering, a report by digital connectivity consultancy, FarrPoint, has revealed.
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Essex Council signs £9m deal for health and care technology
The three year call off agreement, valued at £8.9m, will use technology to support Essex adults in their own home in a bid to improve health.
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‘Time running out’ for telecare services to go digital
Around 900,000 telecare users in the UK could be affected as BT and Virgin Media begin to retire analogue phone networks, a report from Doro Care has suggested.
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Teleservices free up clinician’s time at Blackpool hospitals
Video conference initiatives are allowing clinicians to have direct contact with patients without having to travel between hospitals.
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North West London taps Inhealthcare to deliver apps and teleservices
Inhealthcare will help care providers in the area offer targets, personalised care to patients through apps and teleservices.
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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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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.
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Connected care homes ‘could slash £1bn from NHS demand’
A project run by NHS Calderdale CCG has suggested that telehealth in care homes could cut hospital admissions by as much as third
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Remote heart failure monitoring tested in Buckinghamshire
A portal aggregating heart failure data for more than a hundred patients will be deployed in Buckinghamshire.
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Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This wee’s round up focuses on supplier news from EHI Live 2016, where Philips Healthcare launched a new home-based telecare product, and Fujifilm unveiled a new PACS.
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