A round-up of evidence on health information technology, in Word document form, with thanks to Bob Pyke, Co-administrator (and ‘roving editor at large’) of the Telehealth List Serve and E-health List Serve. Bob is also North American Coordinator for Med-e-Tel.
PASA has updated its site with more information and with details of the increased telecare products and savings opportunities through the agreement that are available to qualifying organisations.
Scroll through this little picture blog of items seen at the Naidex 2007 exhibition. Thanks to James Batchelor of Alertacall for this reference.
Nice to see this growing UK company winning an award. The following photo shows Dr Phil Hammond, GP, writer and broadcaster, Saneth Wijayaratna, General Manager for Telemedcare amd Nicola Searle of Prospect ip who sponsored the category.
Telemedcare press release. Telemedcare website.
mediagrids has appointed Rob Bijkerk to its board of directors. Netherlands-based Bijkerk, joined mediagrids in 2006 as VP of European Operations. He will continue to promote the company’s flagship product, broadcare, the broadband videoconferencing technology that enables “intelligent and discreet monitoring of individuals in their own environments”.
Owing to the participation of all the big-name players, the Continua Health Alliance has become the de facto key industry body aimed at “promoting interoperability across emerging technology-based health and wellness solutions”. Abingdon (Oxfordshire, UK) based Toumaz Technology Limited is “a developer of advanced RF, analogue and mixed signal semiconductors. The focus of the business is low power devices based on the company’s proprietary AMxT (Advanced Mixed Signal) technology which addresses the needs of lower power consumption for mobile and wirelessly connected systems”.
Read about Toumaz’s products on its website and also the TelecareAware story 2 March
Interesting new product from the Netherlands that uses video with computer monitoring for activity monitoring. Likely to appeal to the care homes market, the developers are looking for UK distributors. Check out the product at Secumatic’s WeSpot website.
The website AT Dementia (see 26 January) is now carrying the report of the survey Local responses to the preventive technology grant: findings from a two stage survey of local stakeholders undertaken last year by John Woolham, Grant Gibson and Pam Clarke. “The survey found that whilst in many areas local agencies were responding creatively and enthusiastically, other respondents reported on a range of difficulties in creating the local conditions that might allow telecare to be widely used. A total lack of knowledge and experience of using telecare in some areas created particular difficulties.” Download from the AT Dementia site.
Following the comment in the Robotic Care video library item about ‘My Spoon’, Karen Messruther, Development Officer (Telecare), at Moray Council’s Community Services has pointed out that it is similar in concept to the Neater Eater which has been available in the UK for many years and can also be microprocessor controlled. The website is at www.neater.co.uk [The site isn’t organised to allow linking directly to that page, so navigate Products > Example 5.]
Funny how you spot one story (Winn-Dixie Supermarkets carrying Guardian Alert 911 Personal Emergency Response System 2 March) and three more come along. Click on the headlines for the links.
Shopper’s Home HealthCare store stocks Direct Alert
Press release from Canada. Note: if you follow this link to Direct Alert you’ll have an annoying animated character ‘welcoming’ you if you have your sound turned on.
Walgreens Ready Response Medical Alert System
US press release. Developed for Walgreen Co. by American Medical Alert Corp., the system will be offered at Walgreens stores in selected markets and nationally in the US through Walgreens web site.
Perhaps they have been reading articles like this from Dealerscope.
Behind the Counter: Retailers Should Monitor Digital Healthcare Market
So when is Tesco going to move in on telecare in the UK?
Not an immediately obviously telecare-related article, but read deeper to see the implications. Report of the W2i Digital Cities Convention in Tempe, Arizona.
Two general telehealth/telemedicine stories that only appear here because they contain some nuggets.
Remote health care thriving as technology improves
Nugget 1: “Dr Patrick Cobb, who graduated from medical school in the mid-1980s, said remote health care was something he and his classmates figured they’d be more likely to encounter at Disneyland than in a hospital.” Billings Gazette.
The new face of Florence Nightingale
Nugget 2: “Congestive heart failure patient Arthur Ross lives alone, so he was startled one morning last fall when a strange woman’s voice called from his living room. “Good morning. It’s time to take your vitals.” ” The Naperville Sun.