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1 Vodafone launches signal booster 03 Jul 09
2 Press release structure and doom 03 Jul 09
3 Conference report: eHealth & Telemedicine Philippines 2009 03 Jul 09
4 Mobiles and healthcare: telehealth and telemedicine in Pakistan 03 Jul 09
5 Houston, we have plug-and-play telehealth 03 Jul 09
6 Intel and GE develop Health House 03 Jul 09
7 GE Healthcare to grow its health information exchange services by joining global eHealth leader 03 Jul 09
8 McElwaine Smart launches Ireland-wide service 03 Jul 09
9 Flaws found in alarms system to replace warden scheme 30 Jun 09
10 Social worker sits on panic alarm 30 Jun 09
11 CardioPod for NHS health check 30 Jun 09
12 Orange Austria targets mobile e-health 30 Jun 09
13 UK's social care plans are likely to back telecare 30 Jun 09
14 Continua: Enough pilots, let’s move to deployments 30 Jun 09
15 Telecare Services Association appoints Telehealth Development Manager 24 Jun 09
16 Two 'good news' local stories (UK and US) 24 Jun 09
17 Opportunities and risks of telehealth in the NHS 24 Jun 09
18 ‘Telemedicine’ house helps older people stay safe and independent 24 Jun 09
19 The Future of Wireless Conference Report 24 Jun 09
20 'Panic button' failed dying father 24 Jun 09
21 Short listed companies for Remote Telemonitoring Northern Ireland Service announced 22 Jun 09
22 Connecting telehealth data to electronic records? (UK) 22 Jun 09
23 Telehealth support for GPs tried in Germany 22 Jun 09
24 How much is your high-tech startup worth? 22 Jun 09
25 Proton Healthcare to target UK consumer market 22 Jun 09
26 Will older person-friendly PCs make standalone devices redundant? 22 Jun 09
27 Is telehealth coming at last? 19 Jun 09
28 Patients beat high blood pressure with Bluetooth remote health monitor 19 Jun 09
29 Telehealth technology can reduce cardiac patients' risk factors 19 Jun 09
30 Patients get faster recovery times 19 Jun 09
31 EU Information Society: e-inclusion key documents 19 Jun 09
32 Kings Fund WSD update and DH WSD leaflet 17 Jun 09
33 UK public services - quality has not improved 17 Jun 09
34 Sanomedics Pioneers Home Health Monitoring on Two Continents 17 Jun 09
35 In the Realm of the Sensors 17 Jun 09
36 Honour for Keren Down, Director of FAST (UK) 17 Jun 09
37 UK's WSD telehealth trials missing minorities 15 Jun 09
38 Emerging evidence on remote monitoring for heart failure patients 15 Jun 09
39 Social care system changes urged (UK) 15 Jun 09
40 iPhone users - older than you think 15 Jun 09
41 Bluetooth SIG’s Mike Foley on health devices 15 Jun 09
42 UK round-ups 11 Jun 09
43 What happens when Google Wave hits Google Health? 11 Jun 09
44 ‘Smart Shirt’ of the future monitors Heart Rates, Respiration and Temperature 11 Jun 09
45 Fingerprint reader improves telehealth security for patients 11 Jun 09
46 Continua to include Zigbee in next version of interoperability guidelines 11 Jun 09
47 Consumers want technology to help keep them healthy 11 Jun 09
48 Healthsense Remote Monitoring System now Wi-Fi certified 11 Jun 09
49 TOOLS for Independence (US) 11 Jun 09
50 Could AT&T prevent falls? 04 Jun 09
51 Invicta Telecare throws a lifeline 04 Jun 09
52 New telehealth pilot project to evaluate technology solutions for US market 04 Jun 09
53 Freedom Alert hardwired 911 dialing 04 Jun 09
54 Older people being drugged and robbed when they need care 04 Jun 09
55 EMS iPhone application developed further 01 Jun 09
56 Telemonitoring could radically change individualised heart failure treatment 01 Jun 09
57 New NHS tariff upsets PCTs' financial plans 01 Jun 09
58 Poor marketing hampers elderly care housing provision (UK) 01 Jun 09
59 Mothers hold babycams and cry 01 Jun 09
60 Fife tries out telecare for people with dementia (Scotland) 01 Jun 09
61 Telehealth in the Developing World 01 Jun 09
62 First Response moves to weekly checks (US) 01 Jun 09
63 Checking up on people with dementia 28 May 09
64 OECD expert meeting on eHealth indicators 28 May 09
65 NRS's 'stand-alone' telecare products 28 May 09
66 American TeleCare Inc "one of the USA's 100 companies to watch" 28 May 09
67 Orange and Alcatel-Lucent telehealth cooperation agreement 28 May 09
68 Up to 15% of people with dementia may have normal pressure hydrocephalus 28 May 09
69 Telehealth epilepsy study grant funding opportunity (US) 28 May 09
70 Panic alarm plans for abuse victims (Scotland) 28 May 09
71 IBM Establishes Global Healthcare Centre of Excellence in La Gaude, France 22 May 09
72 Will Microsoft and Google Take Mobile Health into the Clouds? 22 May 09
73 Does automation sacrifice patient empowerment? 22 May 09
74 High-tech play platform for older people 22 May 09
75 Senior care goes high-tech 22 May 09
76 Challenges to data security in internet medical device information links 22 May 09
77 Beyond telecare - the future of independent living 22 May 09
78 Confirmed: NI's EU-CCH to get new chief executive 20 May 09
79 Philips plans new health regime 20 May 09
80 Medical Alarm Concepts new 2-way pendant 20 May 09
81 More on Intel's EU fine 20 May 09
82 Watching while you work and play 20 May 09
83 Tynetec and Jontec first to meet BS8521 - bringing interoperability closer 19 May 09
84 Mobile location developments 19 May 09
85 Protest at Barnet proposal to stop warden service (UK) 19 May 09
86 NHS deals hit BT’s results 19 May 09
87 Quest Diagnostics to Connect to Microsoft HealthVault 19 May 09
88 Application for the iPhone to Save More Lives 19 May 09
89 New: News items submitted by readers 17 May 09
90 European Connected Health Campus 15 May 09
91 EU fines Intel $1.45 billion for antitrust violations 15 May 09
92 Third WSDAN e-newsletter 15 May 09
93 UK Telecare Framework Agreement: PASA consultation days for potential suppliers 15 May 09
94 December's VA Patients with Chronic Conditions Article 15 May 09
95 GE plans $6 billion healthcare investment over 6 years 13 May 09
96 Telecare-enabled medication dispenser case study 13 May 09
97 Lifespan Focuses on Medical ScreenPhone Applications 13 May 09
98 Doro PhoneEasy 338gsm review 13 May 09
99 Microsoft CEO calls for rebirth of healthcare, with IT at center 13 May 09
100 Report: US Remote Patient Monitoring Market 13 May 09
101 Hi-tech help praised 13 May 09
102 Toumaz delivers for EU DIAdvisor project 13 May 09
103 Should Essex cut-out its bizarre PR photo shoot? 08 May 09
104 The invisible carer - assistive technology and dementia 08 May 09
105 30,000 alarms for NHS lone workers 08 May 09
106 Mac Tablet - The Ultimate Device for electronic medical records (EMRs)? 08 May 09
107 Getting the right equipment 08 May 09
108 How will FDA 510(k) clearance for RTX3371 affect Tunstall's relationship with Intel? 05 May 09
109 Honeywell offers greater access to web-based health information 05 May 09
110 Ireland suspends new pendant alarm grants 05 May 09
111 Mobile Healthcare: More on TeleHealth 05 May 09
112 Telehealth: Is Your Staff Ready To Implement? 05 May 09
113 Ageing - a renewed strategy to tackle Europe's demographic challenge 05 May 09
114 DHCN (ex-CSIP) April Telecare eNewsletter published 01 May 09
115 The Dependability Telecare Assessment Tool 01 May 09
116 NYU to test BioLert’s epilepsy alert device 01 May 09
117 Continua: ATA Award for Innovation in Telemedicine 01 May 09
118 Tunstall gives old story new legs 01 May 09
119 Bill to expand Medicare funding for telemedicine services (US) 01 May 09
120 'Spy lifeline' for pensioners 01 May 09
121 Medicine's Next Big Battlefield: Your Home 01 May 09
122 Acute overspending raises questions over PCT plans 22 Apr 09
123 NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel 22 Apr 09
124 Hometelehealth (US) targets physicians 22 Apr 09
125 Where’s the mHealth investment in emerging markets? 22 Apr 09
126 Killer home technology (Belgium) 22 Apr 09
127 Re-name that phone - winner 17 Apr 09
128 ExpressMD's Remote Patient Health Monitoring Device receives market clearance from FDA 17 Apr 09
129 Sensei's diabetes advice via iTunes 17 Apr 09
130 Eldercare Service Robot 17 Apr 09
131 NHS lone workers concern 15 Apr 09
132 Twitter to deliver patient and home monitoring? 15 Apr 09
133 New gadgets help north Essex patients (UK) 15 Apr 09
134 InTouch Technologies settles US patent dispute 15 Apr 09
135 Bosch acquires ViTel Net 15 Apr 09
136 CellScope: Telemicroscopy for disease diagnosis 09 Apr 09
137 NHS failing on falls prevention 07 Apr 09
138 US cable and phone providers ready to fight FCC 07 Apr 09
139 New features for Telecare Aware 07 Apr 09
140 GE Healthcare to market Health Guide in new partnership with Intel 03 Apr 09
141 Re-name that phone! 03 Apr 09
142 Essex's Telecare Pledge (UK) 03 Apr 09
143 Getting a chance at life outside a nursing home 03 Apr 09
144 $45 million for West Wireless Health Institute 03 Apr 09
145 Red Alert Telecare named 'Most Promising New Business' (Kent, UK) 03 Apr 09
146 DH Care Networks March Telecare Newsletter published 03 Apr 09
147 Bringing Tai Chi class directly into people's homes 03 Apr 09
148 American Medical Alert Corp. company report 03 Apr 09
149 Virtual Health Assistant and iVisit 03 Apr 09
150 Continua Spring Summit: Liberate the telehealth benefit 30 Mar 09
151 Follow Med-e-Tel 2009 30 Mar 09
152 Invention helps seniors become plugged-in 30 Mar 09
153 Technology can help keep the elderly safe 30 Mar 09
154 ZigBee Health Care - lower healthcare costs expected 30 Mar 09
155 Telus taps telehealth (Canada) 30 Mar 09
156 Remarkable new phone (UK) 27 Mar 09
157 Europe looks towards robots to care for its elderly 27 Mar 09
158 Your `smart' house will take care of you in old age 27 Mar 09
159 AskSara revamped 27 Mar 09
160 US Stimulus Funding: views and application help 27 Mar 09
161 Spyglass report: Trends in Remote Patient Monitoring 2009 27 Mar 09
162 Shocking attitude of student doctor 27 Mar 09
163 Freedom Alert from LogicMark (US) 24 Mar 09
164 Expert predicts Alzheimer's breakthrough 'within a decade' 24 Mar 09
165 Philips home healthcare 5 year growth target 24 Mar 09
166 Inside the VA TeleHealth Clinic in Craig (US) 24 Mar 09
167 Continua Alliance: heterogeneous connectivity on show 24 Mar 09
168 Telecare performance reports from social care authorities (UK) 24 Mar 09
169 Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Task Force Meeting Minutes 24 Mar 09
170 Telstra says Medicare bad for e-health (Australia) 24 Mar 09
171 Telecare and Telehealth win at UK's 'Healthcare Oscars' 20 Mar 09
172 Frost & Sullivan names Intel Health Guide as Home Health Device Product of the Year 20 Mar 09
173 Continua Alliance: will Connecting for Health stay the course? 20 Mar 09
174 EU services standard for cross-border healthcare 20 Mar 09
175 Sorin and Orange to develop remote monitoring for cardiac patients 20 Mar 09
176 New ultra-low power sensor networks for home health monitoring 20 Mar 09
177 American TeleCare to show WWAN for cellular telehealth connectivity 20 Mar 09
178 K-Tech MyEMT device and service (US) 20 Mar 09
179 Chips and drugs 18 Mar 09
180 Telehealth and diabetes 18 Mar 09
181 Report on barriers to telehealth adoption 18 Mar 09
182 Telehealth Resource Center Grant Program (US) 18 Mar 09
183 Ricability: Product review site 18 Mar 09
184 RCN builds telecare and telehealth resource 18 Mar 09
185 URGENT NOTICE: Ambient Assisted Living Networking Day (UK) 16 Mar 09
186 New telecare audit scheme (UK) 13 Mar 09
187 Falkirk Falls Management project wins Gold Excellence Award (Scotland) 13 Mar 09
188 American TeleCare renews US Government contracts 12 Mar 09
189 WSDAN newsletter published 12 Mar 09
190 A&D medical devices awards 12 Mar 09
191 Fort Collins psychiatrist's conviction spotlights telehealth 12 Mar 09
192 Long term success of a telehealth network 12 Mar 09
193 Bringing health experts to the barrios 12 Mar 09
194 Local item: Nottingham (UK) 12 Mar 09
195 Project E-vita now collecting data by Blackberry, mobile phones and Wi-Fi 10 Mar 09
196 Lothian: more on Intel/Tunstall telehealth project 10 Mar 09
197 Using cellphones to monitor blood sugar 10 Mar 09
198 Defining telecare 10 Mar 09
199 Tynetec up for Medilink UK National Award 10 Mar 09
200 Bethany Beach telephone check-in service activated 10 Mar 09
201 High Court to rule on warden support 10 Mar 09
202 Are UK councils about to undermine their telecare services? 25 Feb 09
203 More Scottish investment in telehealth 25 Feb 09
204 Kirklees Council delivers first public service through Nintendo Wii (UK) 25 Feb 09
205 East Lothian telecare showhome 25 Feb 09
206 Last call for Med-e-Tel 2009 hotel reservations 25 Feb 09
207 Future Homes funding to pay for telecare (Scotland) 19 Feb 09
208 Hong Kong to spend HK$1 billion on e-health in 10 years 19 Feb 09
209 140 health care uses for Twitter 19 Feb 09
210 National Health and Hospital Reform Commission Interim Report (Australia) 19 Feb 09
211 WSDAN roadshow presentations available 19 Feb 09
212 Where are the telecare stories? 19 Feb 09
213 Wireless - the future of medical devices 17 Feb 09
214 Branko Cellar: Australian ehealth policy failure 17 Feb 09
215 Sensors help keep older people safe, and at home 17 Feb 09
216 Google taking a step into power metering 17 Feb 09
217 Cellphone for older people (US) 17 Feb 09
218 People with dementia more capable than expected when alone 11 Feb 09
219 Aerotel and GEBOA launch patient tracking in Switzerland 11 Feb 09
220 "Telehealth keeps patients out of hospital" Community Matron 11 Feb 09
221 Telehealth pilot in Ipswich (Australia) 11 Feb 09
222 Telemedicine moving forward in the Philippines 11 Feb 09
223 UK's National Dementia Strategy 06 Feb 09
224 Invicta Telecare keeps growing and going 06 Feb 09
225 Issues influencing the roll-out of the WSD pilots 06 Feb 09
226 Free telemedicine update briefing, Slough (UK) 06 Feb 09
227 Health information technology and physician perceptions of quality of care and satisfaction 06 Feb 09
228 Which? What? Where? (UK) 06 Feb 09
229 Nurse call system wirelessly extended to care home grounds 06 Feb 09
230 Can telehealth cut maternal mortality in Zambia? 06 Feb 09
231 IBM software to connect personal medical devices to Google Health 06 Feb 09
232 Congressional staff review telehealth and stimulus Bill 03 Feb 09
233 New TSA Telecare Code of Practice 03 Feb 09
234 Telemedicine - Where are the doctors when you need one? 03 Feb 09
235 RSLs: litigation threat over wardens (UK) 03 Feb 09
236 UK: Universal broadband by 2012 03 Feb 09
237 Scotland: telerehabilitation needs analysis 03 Feb 09
238 Pods to start Argyll’s healthcare revolution (Scotland) 03 Feb 09
239 Centre for Intelligent Point of Care Sensors (Ireland) 03 Feb 09
240 buddi inventor interview 28 Jan 09
241 CSIP January Telecare LIN eNewsletter published 28 Jan 09
242 Stimulus funding, telehealth and procurement 28 Jan 09
243 Center for Connected Health 2008 progress report 28 Jan 09
244 Telecare engineering (UK) 28 Jan 09
245 Nonin Medical: first Continua certified product 28 Jan 09
246 Philips and Bosch anticipate further telehealth growth 28 Jan 09
247 Report from the first WSDAN open event 26 Jan 09
248 Which medical alert pendant would be the best for her aunt? 26 Jan 09
249 Model-driven service engineering in home telecare 26 Jan 09
250 Financing opportunities available to EU Member States to boost investment in eHealth 26 Jan 09
251 US $6 billion broadband plan approved 26 Jan 09
252 Problem watching the videos? 26 Jan 09
253 Friendly lifeline for isolated older people (Scotland) 20 Jan 09
254 Cardionet: encouraging study results 20 Jan 09
255 US Army to monitor injured soldiers at home 20 Jan 09
256 Gene mutation 'almost guarantees' heart disease 20 Jan 09
257 NHS Trust given electronic health record ultimatum 20 Jan 09
258 Desmond Tutu ISfTeH Ambassador for eHealth 20 Jan 09
259 Telemonitors keep nurses in contact with patients (Kaua'i) 20 Jan 09
260 CES and technologies for older people 16 Jan 09
261 Tunstall changes its name 16 Jan 09
262 Toumaz increases investment in Sentinel 16 Jan 09
263 Paperboy rescues woman in her home (US) 16 Jan 09
264 New in '09: You won't go in to see the doctor 16 Jan 09
265 Outcomes of a home telehealth intervention for patients with heart failure 13 Jan 09
266 DLF celebrates 40th year with launch of 'Living made easy' 13 Jan 09
267 Angus Council to use Chubb Betavista system (Scotland) 13 Jan 09
268 Quel rôle du privé dans la modernisation du secteur médico-social? 13 Jan 09
269 British Computing Society conference bursaries 13 Jan 09
270 empirica: Assessing progress towards an interoperable European eHealth space 13 Jan 09
271 Indian Railways' telehealth initiative 13 Jan 09
272 Abstracts for Med-e-Tel deadline 16 January 13 Jan 09
273 How does broadband affect aging in place? 13 Jan 09
274 $3.4m available in Telehealth Network Grant Program 13 Jan 09
275 Vitalsys introduces Vitaltronics (Belgium) 09 Jan 09
276 Doctors to Make Web Calls in Hawaii 08 Jan 09
277 Telemedicine Delivered by WiMAX 08 Jan 09
278 Health Through Warmth 08 Jan 09
279 Virtual Extra Care Service (VIRTEx) 08 Jan 09
280 WHO report: The Solid Facts - Home Care in Europe 08 Jan 09
281 Telehealth implementation in South East Essex (UK) 08 Jan 09
282 Recluse found dead in home 'under mountain of litter' 08 Jan 09
283 EC Workshop: critical factors for getting benefits from eHealth services 08 Jan 09
284 CSIP December Telecare LIN eNewsletter themed reports 08 Jan 09
285 Queensland Health’s Statewide Telehealth Services (Aus) 08 Jan 09
286 VA data show home health technology improves access to care 08 Jan 09
287 mgate delivers telehealth solution on JAOtech terminals 08 Jan 09
288 Health-monitoring technology helps seniors live at home longer, MU researchers find 08 Jan 09
289 South Derbyshire’s CareLine pilots ‘telehealthcare’ (UK) 08 Jan 09
290 CSIP December Telecare LIN eNewsletter published 06 Jan 09
291 Medical Alert Products for Elders (US) 05 Jan 09
292 ICT & Ageing - European Study on Users, Markets and Technologies 05 Jan 09
293 Patient tests high-tech health monitor (UK) 05 Jan 09
294 Vodafone invests in t+medical 05 Jan 09
295 Finding the Right Tech Model for Patient Care Management 05 Jan 09
296 Telemedicine Encounter Management System for Greenland 05 Jan 09
297 Vivometrics joins Continua Alliance 05 Jan 09
298 California Center for Connected Health established 05 Jan 09
299 Aberdeenshire's telecare Christmas cracker 17 Dec 08
300 CommonWell project in four European countries 15 Dec 08
301 Open source calls the tune for phones 15 Dec 08
302 Just what part of biomedical informatics research don't you understand? 15 Dec 08
303 Welsh council to cut staff costs 15 Dec 08
304 Telecare Crisis and Caring Line 15 Dec 08
305 Telecare proves a life saver 15 Dec 08
306 Equivital remote physiological monitoring system gets CE marking 15 Dec 08
307 Patient keeps hospital appointment over the internet for first time in Wales 15 Dec 08
308 Health technology in Norfolk care homes (UK) 15 Dec 08
309 An open letter to the Obama Health Team on health IT spending 14 Dec 08
 

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