A quick reminder that if you wish to present at next April’s Med-e-Tel conference the deadline for papers is 20th December. Submission details here.
Wireless Healthcare item looking forward to Wireless and Digital Cities Conference in Barcelona next week. Speakers include Dr Esko Alasaarela, of the University of Oulu; Dr Malcolm Fisk; Professor Roger Orpwood; Ian Laughton and Josep Maria Colomé.
Aerotel press release about its forthcoming attendance at the conference in November.
Telecare Aware readers not attending the TSA conference can access press releases and other conference-related information provided by exhibitors by visiting this page.
Telecare Aware readers not attending the TSA conference can access press releases and other conference-related information provided by exhibitors by visiting this page. More information may be added over the next few days.
Probably of interest to many UK Telecare Aware readers, the Self Directed Support – the Future for Supported Housing Conference will be held in Manchester on 27-28 January 2009. The theme is ‘making sense of personalisation’ [If you need a conference to make sense of it, what hope have ordinary users got?]
However, Telecare Aware readers who want to attend can get a 25% discount off the delegate rate. To qualify, quote GCHCS25 when contacting the organiser’s customer services on 0870 890 1080. Read details and view the conference flyer here.
One-day WoHIT 2008 pre-conference symposium on 3 November in Copenhagen snappily sub-titled, as is the way of EU conferences, ‘Change management for introducing clinical process orientation and archetypes across the community’. However, the three speakers, Angelo Rossi-Mori, CNR-ITB (Italy), Karl A. Stroetmann, empirica (Germany), and Karl-Henrik Lundell, SALAR (Sweden) look as though they have some interesting content to offer people trying to create national strategies for deploying ehealh developments. Details here.
Looking forward to Med-e-Tel next April?
Perhaps you should be given the wide range of topics that are going to be covered: Ageing services [i.e. services for people who are getting older, not services that are ageing. I think]; bio-informatics and intelligent clothing; cost-benefit studies, market trends, strategies for the future, opportunities and barriers for eHealth implementation; developing countries and eHealth; eHealth and transport systems (air, rail, road, sea, space); eHealth applications in cardiology, radiology, wound care and other medical disciplines; eHealth for prison systems; electronic health records; e-learning; e-Prescription; e-therapy including telerehabilitation, cyber-therapy, tele-psychiatry and e-psychology; ethics, laws and reimbursement; facing threats and disasters; home monitoring and homecare applications; long term data preservation and intelligibility; management of chronic diseases; military eHealth; nutrition, drugs and eHealth; paediatric telecare; secure data transmission; standardization and interoperability; telecommunication and wireless technologies for eHealth; telenursing and nursing informatics.
There is a special registration fee for speakers so you are are invited to make a submission related to the above themes.The abstract must be prepared according to the Med-e-Tel guidelines, which can be found at www.medetel.lu/index.php. Authors should submit a one page abstract before the deadline, i.e. by December 20th, 2008.
Places still available on the DLF’s next one-day training course in London, 22 October, led by experienced telecare occupational therapist Jennifer Beaumont. £150 + VAT. For more details or to book your place call 020 7432 8010 or email training@dlf.org.uk
The Royal Society of Medicine’s e-health conference 24-25 November 2008, London has the snappy strapline of: “Optimising patient centred care as a way of improving both healthcare outcomes and patient satisfaction.” Promising content, though.
The Center for Connected Health’s forthcoming annual Symposium at The Conference Center, Harvard Medical, Boston, on 27 and 28 October 2008 is entitled: Who Provides, Who Decides, Who Pays: Consumers, Clinicians and Business Models in the Connected Care Era. Details here.
Long overdue, my posting of a link to the interesting range of presentations at the eHealth 2008 conference “eHealth Without Frontiers” in Slovenia, in May. From HealthTech Wire. Note, two pages of links.
Invicta’s annual Independence Day Conference held last Friday, 4 July, in the grounds of its HQ in Kent lived up to its paradoxical reputation for being both a relaxed and a lively event.
The morning sessions comprised presentations from consultant Dave Foster (implications of the 21CN changes); Chris Manthorp from the Epic Trust on ‘Creating a client focused Older Persons Strategy’; Jane Bleach who, as a social services care manager in Kent led the pre-WSD Programme telehealth project, and Sara Clarke, CE of the Jewish Community Housing Association. The latter gave an insight into how technology and cultural expectations sometimes collide.
During lunchtime attendees were able to take a tour of the Invicta call monitoring centre. It reinforced awareness of how organised such a centre has it be to handle the number of calls received. (Over 90,000 per month on average last year.)
As can be seen from the photo below, the afternoon got everyone off their seats and involved in advising a group of actors from Arc Theatre over the case of a woman admitted to A&E following a fall, and what her post-discharge options might be. Over the course of an hour the actors, playing family members and a doctor, developed the story which was stopped every five minutes or so for them to consult groups of audience members over their next move in the unfolding dilemma. Surprisingly, it felt very real. True-to-life, moreover – but surprising given the context of the day – it was quite a long time before anyone mentioned the provision of telecare as part of a possible way forward for the patient and her family!
Actor (woman on right) playing the patient’s daughter consults
group over what argument to deploy next
The day finished with a session on service user involvement by Tristan Hodson and Will Myers from the Porchlight charity.
Invicta’s Independence Day was supported by sponsors: Chubb; Cirrus; QuietCare; Supra; Tunstall and Tynetec.
As telemedicine, telehealth and telecare providers get sucked along in the updraft of the digital trend in health care provision, the provocative conference report and the many comments that have become appended to this E-Health Insider Primary Care item may interest many Telecare Aware readers.
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