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3 Febuary edition of the Telemedicine Reporter International Edition (PDF) for download thanks to US Tele-Medicine. To be emailed when the next is released email their media dept. |
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| The gist is...If you have a serious comment to make anonymously...email it, don't just post it. |
Truly anonymous comments - where the writer is unknown - are not published unless they are unexceptional.
Comments or articles where the authorship is known but are offered for publication anonymously are considered on their merits. (Email Steve or Donna in confidence.) There are some circumstances where it is necessary to be close to a particular situation to be able to throw light on it but to write about it publicly would jeopardise the author's position. In that case, the decision to publish an item anonymously hinges on the question of whether or not it is informed opinion that will add insight to, or might start, a debate on a particular topic.
Unsubstantiated allegations of illegal behaviour or substandard products, for example, would not be posted unless they could be independently verified, in which case we would probably publish them ourselves.
Just because a post, article or comment, etc. is published on Telecare Aware readers cannot and should not infer that the editors agree with the author, anonymous or not.
Steve Hards
Donna Cusano
Editors
steve.hards@telecareaware.com
donna.cusano@telecareaware.com
my experience |
| Friday, 05 June 2009 10:03 |
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Although I have tried my best to involve a range of suppliers in our plans here I think the odds are against the smaller independent businesses because of a tendency of decision makers, at least in my experience to want to use the people who supply our incumbent alarm centre for equipment and the alarm centre itself to run schemes. There can be some good thinking behind this but it is very restrictive or at least it has been here. I have had to bang my fists against the table several times to get sign off on some very small projects, a few thousand pounds - which are very well researched and fit well within out remit but operate separately to our alarm centre. I find it quite easy to get approval on projects for tens of thousands of pounds which do involve the alarm centre and buying from the large companies mentioned by the previous correspondent. I am impressed by how much work must have been involved for the small group of companies that actually have made inroads in to getting pilots underway but I do worry for them they will not get out of it what they have put in to it until there is a new way of thinking. We have had great pilots and positive feedback about the products we have used from independents but there is still resistance to mainstream what they offer and a wish to put more resource in to our alarm centre from our managers. It is depressing for me and my co-worker to feel we have delivered some great telecare pilots and to know they are probably still going to be abandoned in favour of panic buttons. |
