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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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Items With Recent Comments

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• Who, What, When? The History Project (5)
• mHealth stakeholders: Bullet list of legal considerations (US) (1)
• Pendant alarm advice for the public (UK) (1)
• GPS tracking with autistic children (US) (1)
• In terms of ROI, the biggest saving comes from telemonitoring (Netherlands) (4)
• Cute dog saves owner with telecare alarm (UK) (1)
• Orange Healthcare: "eHealth is a key pillar of Orange’s Conquest 2015 strategy" (EU) (1)
• Telehealth on mobiles rolling out to thousands of patients in Somerset (UK) (8)
• BeatPanic iPhone app (2)
• Telehealth ‘trebles death rate’ in elderly patients (3)
• Medical alert saves 93 year old from burglars (US) (1)
• Carephone GPS Tracking Shoe prototype (UK) (6)
• 3millionlives: Would you trust this machine to act as your GP? (UK) (2)

Recent Telecare Soapboxes

• Telecare Soapbox: When will telehealth companies start generating income?
• Telecare Soapbox: Telehealth apples and pears
• Telecare Soapbox: What should the role of the Telecare Services Association be? (UK)
• Telecare Soapbox: Is mHealth/eHealth becoming a 'Field of Dreams'?

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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.

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