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When I find a useful telecare, telehealth or telemedicine video that can be made available to the public, you will find it here! The newest are at the top. Contact me if you have, or know of, such a video and would like to have it posted here for everyone to enjoy. Steve
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VA Telehealth: Real-Time Access To Care
Tuesday, 30 June 2009 09:44
9 minuites. US Department of Veterans Affairs
Excellent video showing three examples of health delivery at a distance and its benefits to patients and staff. After watching, you may want to read an article about the telehealth facility at Craig, which gives some more information and a nursing perspective.
Social networking combined with health data tracking
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:50
5 minuites. UTS Health
The following website is an interesting concept that points to a possible future for user-controlled health information.
Set up by UTS Health, a subsidiary of software company Indigo Byte Systems (UTS = Universal Tracking System), the site is a combination of user networking/health information sharing/mutual support and health information provided by the company, and a place to track your health monitoring data (privately, if you wish). The best way to grasp it before visiting the UTS website is to view their introductory video:
Zenda Technologies (www.zendatech.com) has developed a headset technology that allows primary care physicians to diagnose Alzheimer's within 10 minutes, instead of the one-hour paper-based test that has to be given by a trained administrator.
More information, including headset, in following video...
2 mins 36 seconds. Title: GE/Intel: A commitment to the future of home healthcare
Excellent, non hyped-up, explanation of how telecare should, and can, work. In this case in an assisted living setting.
The human star of the video is ex-school teacher Honor Hacker who has featured in a number of pro-technology articles, and spoke last year at a briefing of the US Senate’s Special Committee on Aging. It's good to see she is still going strong. Here are a few of her stories from previous years:
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce telehealth videos
Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:53
The American-Israel Chamber of Commerce recently held a meeting in Atlanta to expose Israeli companies to the American market and vice versa. Here are some videos from the event, including one of Newt Gingrich stressing the importance of devices being user-friendly. Videos courtesy of Leff & Associates.
Did those of us who didn't attend the Silver Summit at CES this year miss anything significant? Watch this 6 minute YouTube video and make up your own mind. You will find the other videos here.
This item is an eye-opener worth 20 minutes of anyone's time. Apart from that, you may find yourself re-thinking the current potential of the global telehealth market... Professor of Global Health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, Hans Rosling at the TED event in 2006. (More information)
3 minutes 21 seconds. Title: Telehealth in Hackney
This is the clearest explanation I have seen of how remote patient health monitoring is managed in the NHS, what patients do, and its benefits. The 3.21 minute video on YouTube does not hide its Docobo origin, but that fact is not 'in-your-face'.
Telecare and telehealth coming together in Norfolk (UK)
Friday, 22 February 2008 00:00
7 minutes. With a bit of editing and a slightly revamped commentary this video could become a useful introduction to telecare and telehealth for the public. However...
30 minutes. Presentation by Margaret Cary, Senior VP for Vox Medica in 2001. Interesting content from the telehealth perspective. Main message - it's not about the technology, which is just part of the care delivery process.
1 minute 18 seconds. Video about the RF ECG sensor - "the worlds smallest, high-speed wireless biosensor kit" - from the Japanese Medical Electronic Science Institute Co. Ltd
1min 34sec 15 Aug 2006. Older people benefit from home alarms (West Lothian) View here 1min 32sec 23 May 2007. New healthcare system piloted (Kent) View here 1min 47sec 29 Jan 2008. Bed sensor helps elderly coupleView here 2min 18 sec 30 Jan 2008. Advances in telecare devices (People with Learning Difficulties and Older People) View here
Promoting Alertacall’s Safety Confirmation Service to the general public in the UK’s Border TV region from 19 September 2007 onwards. Click here to view.
Tiny Implantable Sensors (Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS))
Friday, 09 February 2007 00:00
4 minutes. Title: ISSYS: A Hallmark of Success Company.
ISSYS researches and manufactures microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). These sensors are so small that they can be implanted to monitor pressure directly within blood vessels, the eyes and brain and communicate results wirelessly.
They like robots in Japan and are working hard to turn them into human replacement care givers. RI-MAN, developed by Riken BMC, can 'see', 'hear' 'touch' and 'smell' and can lift and carry a person - well, mannequin in the demo. TIME selected RI-MAN as one of the best products of 2006. See the two videos near the top of this page. Watch them both. Scroll down for more information and pictures. After that, you may like to visit the Secom Meal Assistance My Spoon robot site. No video, but an interesting development for the right clients.
3 minutes. Title: A Digital Revolution for the World's Remotest Regions
Insight into Intel's ambition to connect the next 1 billion new users to the internet. It shows some examples where the 'revolution' is underway in Egypt and Brazil. Not a telehealth video directly...
Video from 2005 from an unknown source, demonstrating a 'typical emergency healthcare scenario, first without and then with telemedicine.' Hardly infomative at all, but included for the sake of completeness.
Title: Westminster - The Wireless City: Improving Business and Services with WIFI. This addition to the video library should give ammunition to all who are looking for substantial investment in telecare. The video itself shows how Westminster invested many millions in wireless CCT systems to help keep its citizens and visitors safe on the streets. How about a similar spend to keep them safe in their homes? View the video on the Cisco site via the above link.
Brunel University / Chorleywood Health Centre Telemedicine
Thursday, 20 July 2006 00:00
17 minutes. Title: Telemedicine: Helping supply meet need. Made for Brunel University's Telemedicine & eHealth Systems course, this video shows the extensive use of telemedicine equipment at Chorleywood Health Centre, Hertfordshire, UK.
1 minute. Title: A great service for older people. Council and health telecare projects should be seeking similar local TV publicity to stimulate interest in their telecare programmes...
