Dallas: telehealth’s reboot reviewed
Whatever happened to the massive and well-funded Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale programme, and did it deliver any results? Laura Stevens sets out to find out.
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Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This week’s round-up of industry news focuses on company partnerships, starting with a link up for Soliton IT, and on companies winning space on government framework contracts.
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Lancashire test bed tries out LTC interventions
An NHS test bed in Lancashire is to test innovative technologies for patients with conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atrial fibrillation and diabetes; with different risk cohorts trying different ideas.
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Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This week’s industry round-up focuses on companies, and includes news of rebrands, a new chief executive for Caradigm, and projects that firms are involved in, including a huge European telehealth trial led by Royal Philips.
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MediPi open source telehealth kit piloted in NHS
An open source telehealth kit built using Raspberry Pi will be piloted with heart patients at a southern NHS trust this financial year.
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Heart patients get smart with phones
Heart patients at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are monitoring their health at home and sending daily readings to nurses via smartphone.
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33,000 patients go with the Flo
A telehealth text messaging system developed in Stoke has been adopted by more than 70 health and social care services across the UK.
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Tom’s digital disruptors: app up this winter
‘Tis the season for newspaper headlines about NHS ‘winter pressures’. Thomas Meek looks at some of the apps and other innovations that organisations around the country are using to try and relieve some of the pain.
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Scottish telehealth centre under fire
NHS 24’s governance of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare has been heavily criticised in a leaked report produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Cheshire runs large telehealth pilot
Cheshire has launched a one-year project to use telehealth to support patients with long-term conditions, working with Philips Healthcare.
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