Aerotel have lined up with an interesting and potentially powerful partner to open up the home health monitoring market in Spain. Press release.

Let’s hope Medtronic’s surfing skills are up-to-scratch. Joking aside, this item from e-Health Europe is worth reading if you are interested in the telehealth scene.

Jontek’s Answer-Link 3G Telecare Response Centre is now available through the NHS PASA Telecare National Framework Agreement, via Vivatec. The acceptance by NHS PASA of Answer-Link 3G under the 2008 Annual Review process means that the Centre is available through the Telecare NFA from 1 April 2008 with no further requirements for tendering by purchasers. Joint Jontec/Vivatec press release for details.

Subtitled ‘Adults with autism reap the benefits of a move away from institutional care into a home of their own’ this Guardian story is a perfect example of what telecare suppliers’ press releases should look like. All the emphasis is on the people and the benefits that technology adds, and the supplier’s name is only mentioned in passing. Read here.

The Med-e-Tel 2008 conference program features speakers from around the world, presenting on a wide variety of ehealth and telemedicine topics. 16 – 18 April, Luxembourg. Still time to register.

A well-researched, wide-ranging article from the Wisconsin Technology Network that deserves a wider audience. Maybe you should go and ‘Digg’ it. I particularly liked the quote: from Frank Byrne, president of St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, who called home-based health monitoring “a short connecting flight from what we offer now.” Technology drives advances in home health monitoring.

And Walmart-owned UK supermarket chain Asda have also started a couple of pilot in-store medical clinics… Story via Wireless Healthcare.

This is actually a re-run of the second story in the trio in ‘Three views on technology take up’ posted earlier this week. Why? Because the addition by ihealthbeat of a small graph makes the whole thing much more readable.

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