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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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UK Prime Minister commends WSD results and telehealth |
| Monday, 05 December 2011 18:05 |
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Today's launch of the UK Government's Strategy for UK Life Sciences was headlined - according to the Independent newspaper - by praise from PM David Cameron for telehealth (as in remote patient monitoring), based on the results of the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) project. He is reported as saying "Just look at our approach to tele-health [sic] - getting new technology into patients' homes so they can be monitored remotely...We've trialled it, it's been a huge success, and now we're on a drive to roll this out nationwide...The aim - to improve three million lives over the next five years." The Department of Health's own press release on the strategy only picks up telehealth in passing - item 5. "The Department of Health will accelerate the use of telehealth and telecare technologies" It will be interesting to see how it is going to do that given that the so-called roll out will be unfunded by the Department of Health (DH) which is currently trying to persuade the industry to finance a marketing campaign, Telecare Aware understands. Readers will be interested to note that DH has also released the 'headline telehealth findings' of the WSD programme, which can be downloaded here. They are:
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