When I find a telecare, telehealth or telemedicine video that can be made available to the public, you will find it here! The latest videos are at the top of the list. Click on the blue underlined link to view it.

Contact me if you have, or know of, such a video and would like to get it posted here for everyone to enjoy.

Healthcare 2010

2 minutes 15 seconds. Posted 19 May 2008
Telecare in Kent. Brief item from Kent County Council’s ‘Kent TV’ site.

Telecare and telehealth coming together in Norfolk (UK)

7 minutes. Posted 21 February 2008
With a bit of editing and a slightly revamped commentary this video could become a useful introduction to telecare and telehealth for the public.

Telehealth and Telemedicine: Wave of the Future

30 minutes. Posted 18 February 2008
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, but the whole care delivery process’.

Senator John Thune advocating an increase in funding for telehealth

6 minute 30 seconds. Posted 8 February 2008

High-speed wireless biosensor kit

1 minute 18 seconds. Posted 6 February 2008
Video of “the worlds smallest, high-speed wireless biosensor kit” from the Japanese Medical Electronic Science Institute Co. Ltd.

Telecare and telehealth videos from BBC News

• Older people benefit from home alarms (West Lothian) 15 Aug 2006 1min 34sec
• New healthcare system piloted (Kent) 23 May 2007 1min 32sec
• Bed sensor helps elderly couple 29 Jan 2008 1min 47sec
• Advances in telecare devices (People with Learning Difficulties and Older People) 30 Jan 2008 2min 18 sec

A&D Products

Title: A&D Products 13 minutes 06 seconds. Posted 15 January 2008
A&D’s video introducing its products.

Nokia Near Field Communication (NFC) technology

Title: CarePro Movie 3 minutes 36 seconds. Posted 11 November 2007
WELbeing uses Nokia Near Field Communication (NFC) technology supplied by Over-C.

LogicMark’s Guardian Alert 911

Title: Guardian Alert 911 7 minutes. Posted 11 November 2007
Small phone device that links to US 911 services.

Alertacall Television Advertisements

Title: Alertacall Television Advertisements. 30 seconds (long version) 10 seconds (short version). Posted 20 September 2007
Promoting Alertacall’s Safety Confirmation Service to the general public in the UK’s Border TV region from 19 September onwards.

Tiny Implantable Sensors (Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS))

Title: ISSYS: A Hallmark of Success Company. 4 minutes. Posted 9 February 2007
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. A definite pointer to the future. Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISSYS), has given premission to post the video made when it was selected as a NASA Hallmark of Success company.

Robotic Care?

Title: Promotional video. 2 minutes 18 seconds. Posted 8 February 2007
Title: Demonstration. 1 minute 27 seconds. Posted 8 February 2007
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.Two videos near the top of the 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.

Behavior Recognition Software

Title: Behavior Recognition Software. 53 seconds. Posted 7 February 2007
Telecare that uses video monitoring will need automated systems to identify when someone has fallen. This video from Baltimore University shows how that may be possible with this automated gait analysis developed to aid security monitoring of CCTV surveillance images. Read the news story from the Baltimore Sun first, then follow the link to the video, which is to the top right of the story.

Improved Access to Patient Care

Title: Improved Access to Patient Care: Telemedicine in Action. 4 minutes 57 seconds. Posted 6 February 2007

You will need to follow the above link to the Cisco site for this video making the case for telemedicine published June 2005. You may also need to wait for the video to buffer (download a bit) before you can watch it and/or use the Video Preferences setting in the top right hand corner of Cisco’s player to choose the lower bandwidth connection option.

Intel’s World Ahead Program

Title: A Digital Revolution for the World’s Remotest Regions. 3 minutes. Posted 5 February 2007

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, but a pointer to the future. After that, find a spare 40 minutes and watch the video on Intel’s website of Paul Otellini announcing the program. It’s thought provoking stuff.

Telemed Watch

Title: Telemed Watch Saves Lives. 1 minute 19 seconds. Posted 5 February 2007

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.

Telecare - Providing Dignity, Security and Efficiency

Title: Telecare - Providing Dignity, Security and Efficiency. 1 hour in total. Posted 18 January 2007

‘Must see’ video on aspects of telecare by GBTV’s LocalGov TV (not to be confused with the LGA’s Local Government Channel on www.localgovtv.com). It’s particularly good to see the terminology issues tackled.

Viewing hints:
1) To view it via internet you will need to provide your contact details to this commercial company. The quid pro for viewing the video is that you will receive marketing material. It is available to buy on DVD, but the price isn’t revealed on the site.
2) With up to 1 Meg broadband,you will have a better viewing experience using the low bandwith viewing option, but will have longer to wait for the video to load.
3) The programme is split into segements. The viewing lengths are:

• Expert Panel - Telecare Opportunities: 7 min
• Case Study- Notts Care Services - Award Winning Telecare: 6 min
• Case Study- Cheshire County Mainstreams Telecare: 8 min
• Case Study- Safety Confirmation - A New Approach to Telecare: 5 min
• Policy Drivers and Initiatives: 3 min
• Clarifying the Terminology: 4 min
• Service and Technology Options: 4 min
• Procurement through PASA: 3 min
• PTG Preventative Technology Grant: 2 min
• Key Challenges: 7 min
• Local Authority Progress to Date: 7 min
• The Future for Telecare: 6 min

CareCompanion and CareStation

Title: Care Companion - Long term conditions monitoring. 1 minute 29 seconds
Title: CareStation - TV-based homecare 7 minutes 23 seconds

These two videos on the Home Telehealthcare Ltd website (navigate to them from the videos link on the left hand side of the home page) illustrate two Scotty Group (now Zydacron) products in action, plus comments from users.

Westminster - Cisco’s Wireless City

Title: Westminster - The Wireless City: Improving Business and Services with WIFI. 6 minutes 30 seconds. Posted 5 October 2006
This addition to the video library should give ammunition to all who are looking for substantial investment in telecare, along the lines that London Borough of Newham intends. 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? You need to be flash enabled and turn your sound on - and you may need to be patient while it loads.

Supporting Older People (Milton Keynes)

Title: Supporting Older People. 4 minutes 55 seconds. Posted 15 September 2006
This video from the Local Government Channel shows community alarm as an integral part of a care package that includes community matron services, Single Assessment Process (including police and fire services) and an ‘extra care village’. Nice one, Milton Keynes, and thanks, LGA TV. We look forward to a dedicated telecare video from you!

Remote patient monitoring

Title: Untitled. 1 minute 40 seconds including sponsor’s 12 second advert. Posted 16 August 2006
This news item from the US’s News10.com shows remote patient monitoring in use, using Viterion kit.

Brunel University/Chorleywood Health Centre Telemedicine

Title: Telemedicine: Helping supply meet need. 17 minutes. Posted 19 July 2006
Made for Brunel University’s Telemedicine & eHealth Systems course, this video shows the extensive use of telemedicine equipment at Chorleywood Health Centre, Hertfordshire, UK. One of the best telemedicine videos around, doctors, other staff, patients and hospital consultants discuss the benefits to each of them.

Alertacall Telecare item on local TV news

Title: A great service for older people. 1 minute. Posted 17 July 2006
Council and health telecare projects should be seeking similar local TV publicity to stimulate interest in their telecare programmes - once they are up and running, of course!

Mobile Telemedicine Vehicle

Title: Mobile Teledicine Vehicle. 6 minutes. Posted 26 June 2006
Reinventing the ambulance, this amazing vehicle carries state-of-the-art teledicine diagnostics over the roughest terrain. Preparation for the Great Californian Disaster maybe? The Loma Linda University Medical Center which produced this vehicle, and the video, is a Seventh-Day Adventists’ healthcare institution.