Docobo make multi-user version of telehealth device
Telehealth specialist Docobo has unveiled a multi-user version of its HealthHUB portable home monitor, meaning two or more patients can now utilise one device. The HealthHUB system enables patients to record vital signs, symptoms, lifestyle and quality of life measures around the clock from any location. This information is then securely transferred to the doc@HOME […]
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Brown pledges telehealth for 100,000
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to offer telehealth services to 100,000 people with long term conditions in a speech outlining his plans for a more preventative and personal NHS. Brown’s speech, designed to regain the political initiative on health, also revealed government plans to offer patients screening for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney […]
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Bosch buys Health Hero Network
German industrial giant, the Bosch Group, has acquired US telehealth specialist and innovator Health Hero Network Inc., which focuses on remote health monitoring. Stuttgart, Germany-based Bosch did not disclose terms of the deal with Health Hero Network, which is based in Palo Alto, California. Terms of the agreement were not be disclosed. Health Hero Network […]
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A work in progress
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr looks back on the developments during 2007 and shape of things to come in 2008.
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Birmingham PCT to extend telecare to 27,000
A PCT plans to expand its telephone-based care management programme, from 2000 to 27,000 patients, following the results from the first year. Birmingham East and North PCT together with NHS Direct and Pfizer Health Solutions launched Birmingham OwnHealth, a nurse-led telephone care management programme, in April 2006. The innovative service is designed to provide telephone […]
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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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DH telecare demonstrator trials to start work
Small scale trials for the Department of Health’s Whole System Long Term Conditions Demonstrator Programme are to begin in the New Year, ahead of the full implementation in the spring. The two year programme will officially start in April 2008 but the three selected areas, Newham, Cornwall and Kent, will begin testing the concepts involved […]
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New e-health strategy planned for Scotland
A new e-health strategy for Scotland in spring 2008 is promised in a national healthcare action plan, Better Health, Better Care, published this week. The action plan says Scotland’s incremental approach to deploying technology will continue and the new strategy will build on this. “We do not plan to produce some large single database of […]
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Walsall and Hull begin mass telehealth deployment
Walsall PCT and Hull PCT have begun large-scale deployments of telehealth equipment from Tunstall to monitor people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) in their own homes. Both PCTs are using Genesis monitors from Tunstall in an attempt to ensure best use of healthcare resources, reduce COPD and CHF related […]
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Telehealth 2007 in Brussels next week
The European Commission Information Society & Media Directorate General hosts its annual telehealth conference in Brussels on Tuesday, 11 December. Organisers told E-Health Europe: “The Conference aims to identify barriers to broad telemedicine development and concrete actions for the European Union institutions, member states, regions, industries, user organisations and other stakeholders in view of the […]
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