Cheshire tests telehealth vital signs monitor
Two Cheshire care agencies have teamed up with a housing trust to pilot the Genesis machine, a new telehealth product that monitors patients with long term conditions from home. Cheshire County Council Social Services Department and Central Cheshire Primary Care Trust have partnered with Weaver Vale Housing Trust in the venture. Weaver Vale, which manages […]
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UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition
The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status by the EU. The project has been supported by the EU eTen initiative, designed to promote the deployment of network-based services across Europe. Each month the EU looks at different projects connected to the eTen […]
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Scotland opts for national electronic health records
The Scottish Executive has announced that they are to follow the recommendations of the Kerr Report and implement a national system of electronic health records, together with telecare throughout the country. The Executive’s plans for modernising NHS Scotland, entitled ‘Delivering for Health’ details plans for the implementation of a national IT system, including the plans for […]
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Tunstall teams up with Honeywell HomMed
Tunstall, the UK telecare and telehealth solutions specialist, has formed an distribution and alliance agreement with Honeywell HomMed, a leading US provider of remote patient monitoring devices. Under the agreement Tunstall will offer Honeywell’s HomMed Genesis monitor throughout the UK, already used by 350,000 patients. Tunstall says it will target the chronic disease management market, […]
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Nurses happier using telecare, says international survey
Many nurses who specialise in telecare are experiencing greater job satisfaction than those who do not, according to the results of a major international survey into the use of IT in nursing. 59% of ‘telenurses’ claimed that they are happier caring for patients over video, e-mail or phone connections than in person. Reasons cited by nurses […]
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Telecare specialist Tunstall bought in £225m deal
Tunstall, the specialist in personal and home telecare, has been acquired by private equity firm Bridgepoint from Hg Capital in a deal worth a total of £225m. In a simultaneous deal Tunstall has acquired Attendo Response and Attendo Systems, a market-leader in Scandinavian telecare solutions. The acquisition will create a group with combined annual sales […]
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Welsh telemedicine in great shape, says First Minister
Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan, has lent his support to the use of telemedicine within the country, saying that it has had great benefits for NHS Wales. Speaking ahead of last week’s seventh summit of the British Irish Council on the Isle of Man, which focused on the benefits of telemedicine, Morgan said: "Wales has […]
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Remote monitoring for heart patients in Newham
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust has officially launched a telemedicine service that allows patients to self-monitor their conditions from their homes. The Service Transformation Redesign and Innovation Project (STRIP) consists of a touch-screen connected to a web server on the NHS site, and allows staff to monitor the vital signs of a patient remotely. The […]
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Kent uses telehealth for chronic disease support
Kent County Council has launched a series of telehealth and telecare initiatives, in what it claims makes it one of the leading local authority users of new technology. The countywide Kent Telehealth scheme is a partnership between Viterion in the USA and Kent County Council, with KCC providing £1m funding for a pilot project to […]
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US medics may be paid to use electronic patient records
The US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Tommy Thompson, has published a 10-year plan that plans to introduce electronic health records (EHRs) and a network to link them across the country; but clinicians may be paid in order to encourage them to adopt the new technology. The paper, entitled “The Decade of Health […]
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