Danish RTX make telemonitoring user friendly
German telemonitoring service provider Vitaphone has announced a joint venture with Denmark based RTX Healthcare, at Medica in Düsseldorf
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EHI’s industry news roundup 16.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 15 November, featuring supplier news, events, product launches, appointments and awards. Supplier News Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust use Affiniti to manage IP infrastructure The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed Affiniti to provide and manage its IP infrastructure, upgrade existing networks and implement […]
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Healthcare booths go on trial in Scotland
Patients in Scotland will be able to get treatments in specialised health booths, as part of a new collaboration between Cisco and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth.
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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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