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Get on our soapbox and sound off about your telecare or telehealth issues!
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Telecare Soapbox: Honeywell HomMed's response to 'Responsibility of the market leader' |
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Friday, 31 July 2009 08:00 |
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Adam Wragg, European Managing Director of Honeywell HomMed responds to the previous Telecare Soapbox item: 'Responsibility of the market leader' and throws down a challenge to us all.
I read with interest the anonymous comments of the writer who sent in the July 14th article to which this is a response.
Growing the overall market is not the sole responsibility of any commercial market leader; building a viable business is. By building a viable business the products and services that are offered become less expensive and more effective. However...
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Telecare Soapbox: Responsibility of the market leader |
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009 07:55 |
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Anonymous commentator applies some concepts from the technology adoption life cycle to consider progress - or not - in the UK's telehealth market.
Being a market leader has one key responsibility: to grow the overall market. The market leader cannot make significant growth by focusing on taking business from its smaller competitors as there is not sufficient business to be gained. Market growth is achieved by promoting and proving the value to be had from innovative products and by the innovation of the applications, mainstream and niche, for which their products can be used.
So let's look at what has happened in telehealth in the UK...
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Telecare Soapbox: Britain's Got Pendants |
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Written by Steve Hards
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Monday, 01 June 2009 08:00 |
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With this headline everyone - in the UK at least - will know what I was watching last week but it set me thinking: where did the English telecare initiative that started in 2004 go wrong? Why has it failed to deliver the stunning performance that seemed so certain after such a strong second round and getting through to the final?
Was the Telecare Policy Collaborative just a flash in the pan?
Did Building Telecare in England hit some wrong notes?
Was the Preventative Technology Grant a flawed act?
Has the PASA National Telecare Framework Agreement lost its glitter?
In short, why is it that
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Telecare Soapbox: Northern Ireland's 'unhappy first birthday' approaches |
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Written by Steve Hards
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Friday, 15 May 2009 09:20 |
We are now approaching a year since Northern Ireland's Centre for Connected Health published its Prior Information Notice (PDF) for a large-scale, province-wide remote patient monitoring service.
It's not a happy first birthday because, as far as anyone can tell, the procurement process is not likely to come to a satisfactory conclusion any time soon.
For us on the outside it is hard to tell whether this is due to the complicated nature of the task, or incompetence, or a mixture of both.
However, as a matter of opinion, it didn't help that the tender invitation did not include information that the selection criteria would exclude 'small' suppliers with relevant experience, some of whom committed resources to prepare a bid for a process in which they later discovered they would not be allowed to participate...
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Telecare Soapbox: When is a healthcare company a healthcare company? |
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:22 |
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Steve Hards asks "What questions should telehealth commissioners be asking suppliers?"
Now that the laughter in the UK's telecare/teleheath community over Tunstall's name change in the UK to 'Tunstall Healthcare' has subsided into a rather nervous giggle, it's an appropriate time to raise the question of what criteria does a company have to meet to be recognised as a healthcare company?
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Telecare Soapbox: TSA National Telecare & Telehealth Conference 2008 |
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Friday, 14 November 2008 00:00 |
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An appreciative comment on the Telecare Services Association’s 2008 conference in Brighton on 3-5 November by 'telehealth convert', Consultant Cardiologist Dr Lance Forbat.
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Telecare Soapbox: Access to emergency services: a right, entitlement or privilege? |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:00 |
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Steve Hards: Are telecare users – in the UK at least – at risk of being denied an emergency service response?
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Telecare Soapbox: Council runs liability risk with inappropriate telecare provision |
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 00:00 |
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James Batchelor, MD of Alertacall, raises a serious issue for councils and other telecare suppliers: what risk is a council running when its employee substitutes a 'standard' but inappropriate equipment package for a privately-funded one that was more suitable for the client? Would the person's consent to the course of action be a defence if the consent were based on inappropriate advice?
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Telecare Soapbox: Tesco Telecare – How far away? |
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 00:00 |
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This item by Paul Gee, Chief Executive of the UK's Telecare Services Association (TSA), was originally published Autumn 2007 in the TSA's magazine.
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