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Telecare Aware posts pointers to news items that have a broad range of interest. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and ideosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's editors can generally live with that variation. However, when we use these terms we usually mean:
• Telecare: from simple personal alarms (AKA pendant/panic/medical/social alarms, PERS, and so on) through to smart homes that focus on alerts for risk including, for example: falls; smoke; changes in daily activity patterns and 'wandering'. Telecare may also be used to confirm that someone is safe and to prompt them to take medication. The alert generates an appropriate response to the situation allowing someone to live more independently, and confidently, in their own home for longer.
• Telehealth: as in remote vital signs monitoring. This usually, but not exclusively, benefits patients with long term conditions.
Telecare Aware's editors concentrate on what we perceive to be significant events and technological and other developments in telecare and telehealth. We make no apology for being independent and opinionated or for trying to be interesting rather than comprehensive.
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Editor Steve recently finished reading these two books and recommends them. The first, Klondike Playboy is an autobiography by John Boden, known in this industry as CEO of ElderIssues, Florida, and the second, Pitch Anything, by Oren Klaff is essential reading these days for anyone who has to sell new product ideas. Let's just say you won't want these techniques used against you!
And then, of course, there are the perpetual favourites that everyone in every equipment supplier company should read over and over again, by Geoffrey A Moore.
Also - Steve's add-ins for PowerPoint for Windows
And - Steve's App Store for Office (free download)
Burstow, Tunstall, Mears and the £14m 1% 3ML target for Birmingham (UK) |
| Wednesday, 01 February 2012 16:46 |
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Paul Burstow, the Minister for Care Services, today launched Birmingham City Council's initiative to reach 25,000 users of telecare and telehealth over the next three years. [TA Oct. 2011] Like Cornwall's 30,000 aim, that's just under 1% of the 3millionlives (3ML) uncounted and uncountable 'target', so there are only 98 more councils and NHS organisations to sign up... How much of the £14m mentioned in Tunstall's press release (PDF) is new funding is not clear.* In participating in the event Paul Burstow reaffirmed the Government's enthusiasm for the 3ML scheme, where the industry bears all the costs (and blame if it fails) and the Government takes all the credit if it succeeds. But do not expect to count yourself amongst the 3 million if you are detained at Her Majesty's pleasure. Except he didn't say those things, of course.
Paul Burstow MP and Cllr. Sue Anderson at today's launch (Photo: Context PR)
* NEAR INSTANT UPDATE: The answer, I'm told by a little bird (and I don't mean Twitter), is 'none of it is new' and that the £14m represents a reduction in the £18m that the council had been planning to spend on telehealth and telecare before it lost a legal challenge on changing their FACS criteria. So, in the context of the October announcement which pre-dated 3ML, this is best seen as a lesson from Birmingham on how to jump on a bandwaggon. Ed. Steve Why does the Minister have a man's elbow in his ear? This picture is clearly ripe for a caption competition...no prizes, but leave your observations in a comment. UPDATE Friday 3 Feb: The Guardian reports it...Tunstall gets two mentions...someone will surely get a bonus this year! |
