Telecare “not magic bullet” – WSD study
Policy makers have been warned to avoid describing telecare as a “magic bullet” in the latest study to cast serious doubt on the cost effectiveness of remote monitoring and intervention.
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Telehealth to save Worcestershire £4m
Worcestershire County Council believes it can save more than £4m with the proven benefits of telehealth, according to its business case.
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WSD programme ‘looks promising’
Early results from the Whole System Demonstrator trial of telecare and telehealth are “very promising”, according to the Department of Health.
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2020Health: Govt must lead telehealth
Think-tank 2020Health has urged the government to give “firm strategic leadership” to telehealth and not to rely on local health communities to overcome the challenges of getting it used at scale.
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WSD sites enrol just one patient in ten
A senior adviser on telehealth has told eHealth Insider Live 2010 that the whole system demonstrator sites have been able to recruit fewer than one in ten people eligible for support.
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Telehealth ‘could save county £7.5m’
A pioneering telehealth project has shown that Kent could save £7.5m a year by using assistive technology. A report published this month on the Kent Telehealth Pilot, which ran from 2005-2007 and covered 250 patients, says that use of telehealth saved an average of £1,878 per patient in 2006-7. The figure is based on reduced […]
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Telehealth put on the (Google) map
More than a third of primary care trusts are involved with telehealth programmes, according to the Department of Health‘s Telecare Local Integrated Network. The telecare LIN has created a Google map for PCT telehealth, which shows which areas have begun some form of remote monitoring programme. The network says more than a third of PCTs are […]
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Here is the news: for 2009
The NHS will not be immune from the impact of the credit crunch and this will force policy makers and trusts to make some hard decisions about healthcare IT, according to experts interviewed by E-Health Insider. Almost all the politicians, analysts, suppliers and managers asked to look ahead to 2009 argued that the health service […]
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This is the year to come
Vodafone invests in mobile health firm
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets. Vodafone Ventures Ltd, the corporate venture capital arm of Vodafone Group, has made an undisclosed investment in t+ Medical, which specialises in the use of mobile phone-based to transfer patient biometric data as […]
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