RTX launch new telehealth monitor
Danish telecare specialist, RTX Healthcare, is to launch a new wireless telehealth monitor, which it claims is interoperable with any clinical information system.
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IMIA and WHO to ‘revitalise relationships’
Reporting from Medinfo in Brisbane, Australia, Neil Versel, interviews the World Health Organisation’s e-health co-ordinator.
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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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Barriers to telehealth spelt out
Barriers and possible solutions to the implementation of telecare and telehealth have been set out in latest advice from the government agency providing support for telecare. The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) has listed more than 20 potential problems faced by organisations commissioning and integrating telecare into health, housing and social services. Issues raised by […]
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iPlato deploy SMS to Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
Health text messaging specialists iPlato have agreed a deal to provide their patient care messaging service to 26 doctors’ surgeries in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham covering over 165,000 patients. The deal is iPlato’s largest deployment to date and will allow patients to interact with their surgery via mobile text messaging on a […]
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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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Tunstall deploy telehealth for COPD at Milton Keynes
Telehealth specialists Tunstall have teamed up with Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust and Milton Keynes Community Alarm Service to help give patients suffering from conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), to live healthily and independently at home. The trust hopes that the move towards monitoring patients from their homes will save them up […]
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Local authorities offered support on telecare
Local authorities are being offered support to ensure they meet their targets for spending on telecare projects. The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP), part of the Department of Health’s care services directorate, says the national target linked to the two year £80 million Preventative Technology Grant (PT) from central government was for 60,000 additional telecare […]
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Nottingham telehealth pilot underway
Nottingham City Primary Care Trust has begun piloting a new telehealth scheme to help patients with long term conditions monitor their health and help them better manage their conditions at home. The PCT has invested £30,000 in ten telehealth units from Tunstall which provide health checks around the clock including measurements for blood pressure, pulse […]
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£12m awarded to three home telecare sites
Teams in Kent, Newham and Cornwall have been awarded £12m to look at how best home telecare can be implemented. The areas will form the Whole System Demonstrator pilots promised by the white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, and will be the biggest ever pilot of telecare and telehealth in the UK , […]
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