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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Tech support offered to vanguards
Interoperability and information governance are among the technological priorities for NHS ‘vanguard’ sites, according to a support package published by NHS England.
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West Suffolk telemedicine pilot at risk
West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group has pulled out of a partnership with West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust to pilot a telemedicine service, putting the project at risk.
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Scots’ Dallas project fails to recruit
A £10 million digital health project in Scotland has recruited just one quarter of expected users.
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Joe’s view of telehealth
On holiday in the Alps, Joe McDonald invents teleplumbing. Now he’s got big plans for Skypiatry…
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Keogh calls for TECS support
Sir Bruce Keogh has called on 250 stakeholders to support the uptake of telehealth and telecare as part of the Technology Enabled Care Services programme.
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NI leads EU health and care tech project
The Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland is leading a €5.5m European project to help people live independently through the use of technology.
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NHS E to publish telehealth toolkit
NHS England’s Technology Enabled Care Services programme will publish a telehealth toolkit for commissioners later this autumn.
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