Scots docs: life shouldn’t begin at 40
A scheme to invite all adults over the age of 40 to complete a health check online or over the telephone has been branded a waste of money by GPs.
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Full WSD results expected by autumn
The full results from the evaluation of the world’s biggest telehealth trial are not expected to be published in full for another six to nine months.
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Tunstall is Just Checking
Tunstall has added a web-based activity monitoring system from Just Checking to its portfolio of telehealthcare solutions.
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Birmingham OwnHealth contract extended
NHS Birmingham East and North has signed an extension with NHS Direct and Pfizer to continue to run its Birmingham OwnHealth service.
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WSD programme ‘looks promising’
Early results from the Whole System Demonstrator trial of telecare and telehealth are “very promising”, according to the Department of Health.
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NPfIT failures have left NHS IT “stuck”
A new report by the NHS Confederation has criticised NHS technology for being similar to the “pre-industrial handicraft industry”.
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Ex-Toumaz boss launches Isansys
The former chief executive and co-founder of AIM-listed wireless body monitoring firm Toumaz Technologies has launched a new company focused on end-to-end patient monitoring services.
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2020Health: Govt must lead telehealth
Think-tank 2020Health has urged the government to give “firm strategic leadership” to telehealth and not to rely on local health communities to overcome the challenges of getting it used at scale.
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Welsh telehealth pilots save £2.2m
Three demonstrator projects in Wales testing new ways of managing chronic conditions including use of predictive risk software and telehealth have reported NHS savings of at least £2.2 million in the last year.
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WSD sites enrol just one patient in ten
A senior adviser on telehealth has told eHealth Insider Live 2010 that the whole system demonstrator sites have been able to recruit fewer than one in ten people eligible for support.
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