Telecare LIN
CSIP Telecare eNewsletter
July 2008
Welcome to the July 2008 newsletter. The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP Networks) is responsible for providing general implementation support to organisations building their telecare and telehealth programmes.
If you are an organisation implementing telecare and have an interesting local telecare or telehealth story for inclusion in a future newsletter then e-mail Mike Clark (newsletter editor, CSIP Networks) at telecare@.uk
Please note, some adjustments have been made to the CSIP Networks web site – the main URL is now works..uk
Telecare shortcuts:
works..uk/telecarefactsheets
works..uk/telecarenewsletters
works..uk/telecareservices
works..uk/telecareoutcomes
WSD Action Network:
Notes:
1 CSIP Networks is not responsible for the content of external links and does not endorse any suppliers or their products.
2 CSIP Networks will be making some further adjustments to its web site pages and links in the next few weeks as telecare is re-positioned to operate alongside WSDAN. Some older factsheets will be updated or removed where they are no longer relevant. All current URLs will map across to the new arrangements so bookmarked pages will still work OK. The august newsletter will list all of the detailed changes.
Contents
Item 1 Provides further information about the Whole system Demonstrator Action Network – Page 3
Item 2 Covers the recent extra care announcement – Page 4
Item 3 Refers to the upcoming supplement for September – Page 5
Item 4 covers the recent launch of i4i – Invention for Innovation – Page 5
Item 5 – Refers to a European Commission call on ageing well with cognitive problems – Page 6
Item 6 Covers additional references and links for July 2008 – page 7
Item 7 refers to upcoming events – Page 26
Appendix covers the rules for the September supplement – Page 27
Glossary:
ALIP – Assisted Living Innovation Platform
AT – Assistive Technology
BERR – Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
CSCI – Commission for Social Care Inspection
DCLG – Department for Communities and Local Government
FACS – Fair Access to Care Services
i4i – Invention for Innovation
NHS CfH – NHS Connecting for Health
NHS PASA – NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency
PT Grant or PTG – Preventative Technology Grant
TSA – Telecare Services Association
TSB – Technology Strategy Board
WSDAN – Whole System Demonstrator (Long Term Conditions) Action Network
Over 150 people have now registered in the first couple of weeks for the new web site which will become the main reference point for progress on the Whole system Demonstrators. The site provides reading
rooms for telecare, telehealth and telemedicine with more developments to come in the next few months. If you are looking at the evidence for these technologies as part of health, housing and social care support from around the world, then this will be the site to visit.
The web site for the network is:
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Public access to the site and registration is now open. For registration go to
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The following WSDAN activities will be commencing in September 2008:
• First meeting of Steering Group for programme and governance arrangements
• First meeting of 10-12 sites involved in the action research
• First newsletter for people who have registered on the site (don’t forget to register)
There will be a series of roadshows as part of the WSDAN programme which will commence in late 2008 or early 2009.
As WSDAN moves forwards and the first newsletter is issued, the CSIP Networks telecare programme will become part of Independent Living Choices and Care Closer to Home. The CSIP Telecare Newsletter will continue but will not be duplicating WSDAN materials. The September CSIP newsletter will feature the CSCI performance figures for 2008 and the work of the Telecare Advisory Network as well as 21CN. A major report on the Preventative Technology Grant which brings together information from 2006 through to 2008 will also be available in September. This includes the feedback on this year’s CSCI questions about outcomes, mainstreaming and sustainability. If your organisation has case studies and evaluations relevant to the Preventative Technology Grant that we do not know about, please send a copy to Mike Clark at telecare@.uk.
On 21 July, Social Care Minister Ivan Lewis announced a further 25 new extra care sites. These sites will make use of telecare, telehealth and other assistive technologies to support people to remain independent in their own homes.
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|Extra care housing - 25 new sites announced |
|Health and Care Minister Ivan Lewis today (Monday 21 July) announced the sites that will benefit from £80million of Government funding to build extra care |
|housing, enabling more older people and those with dementia and long-term conditions to live in a home of their own. He will today be presenting the successful|
|Barnsley extra care housing scheme with a cheque for £3.8 million together with Sir Michael Parkinson. |
|People who are unable to continue to live in their own homes have traditionally had their choices limited to care homes, creating a number of problems |
|including couples finding they can no longer live together. |
|Extra care housing gives people a home of their own where wide ranges of care and support services are provided on site. Tenants enjoy greater privacy, dignity|
|and independence, couples can stay together, and social and leisure opportunities can be enjoyed at the resident's convenience. In addition, homeowners may be |
|able to keep some of the equity in their property. |
|Health Minister Ivan Lewis said: |
|"I am delighted to announce these 25 successful extra care housing sites. |
|"Extra care housing is about offering people a choice. Too often I hear of cases where a couple who have been together for over fifty years are forced apart |
|because one requires care and has no choice but to enter residential or nursing care leaving their partner at home. I want to change that. Extra care housing |
|will give people a choice about how and where they choose to spend their later life." |
|The Department of Health has already allocated £147 million to Local Authorities for extra care housing between 2004 and 2008. This further £80 million, |
|bringing the total investment to £227 million, will be allocated over the next two years to the 25 successful schemes. |
|The schemes which had bid for funding were assessed on a number of qualities, including: |
|provision of flats with a minimum of one double bedrooms so that couples could be housed together demonstrating commitment to ensuring the dignity of their |
|residents offering choice and putting personalisation high on their agenda making use of Telecare, telehealth and other assistive technology to support |
|residents to live independently in their own homes helping people with dementia to remain independent for as long as possible. |
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The July 2008 Housing LIN Newsletter includes more information on the 25 extra care sites.
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If you are a manufacturer or supplier of telecare and telehealth equipment, we have another supplement coming up in September this year. We are particularly interested to hear about case studies and evaluations.
For this edition, we are also interested to hear from other organisations outside of local authorities or PCTs who are implementing, researching or evaluating telecare and telehealth in England.
Appendix 1 has the simple rules to follow if you are interested in contributing.
The September newsletter will also have the breakdowns of the 2008 CSCI figures, this covers outturns for 2007/8, projections for 2008/9 and responses to the questions on outcomes, mainstreaming and sustainability.
The i4i Invention for Innovation Programme launched to healthcare product innovators on 16 July 2008 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London.
Professor Lord Darzi, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, welcomed i4i as a timely contribution to innovation research supporting the NHS. He said: "Initiatives such as i4i will help us to achieve the best care for a 21st century health service."
i4i will fund future product development through three funding streams for investigators. It is also the umbrella for NIHR investment in the pilot Healthcare Technology Co-operatives as well as other partnerships through the i4i Challenge Fund for Innovation.
Programme calls are available at
The programmes under the umbrella of i4i include:
• New and Emerging Applications of Technology (NEAT)
• Health Technology Devices (HTD)
• Pilot Healthcare Technology Co-operatives (HTCs)
• Challenge Fund for Innovation supporting
o NIHR involvement in Assisted Living Innovation Platform
o NIHR involvement in Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme
o NIHR involvement with Medical Futures
o NIHR involvement in MATCH PLUS project
Main site:
This call for a pilot has recently been picked up by Graham Worsley from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). It has a closure date of 9 September 2008.
Section 1.4 of CIP-ICT PSP-2008-2 1.4 is the relevant section covering ICT for ageing well with cognitive problems, combining assistive and independent living technologies.
Here is the text from the slide presentation linked at the end of the article.
Objective:
Improve quality of life and social care for the ageing population by combining assistive technologies with independent living platforms to compensate for cognitive problems or mild dementia.
Target outcome and characteristics:
-Demand driven pilots; public-private partnerships building on regional actions, the whole value chain (e.g. care service providers, housing corporations and insurance organisations); strong involvement of users, families and carers.
- Solutions providing: cognitive training, activation and reinforcement for the elderly; support to day-to-day activities and social interactions. Full scale validation.
- Complete set of common specifications for technology and end to end services.
- Socio-economic evidence for ICT investments in the field (cost-benefit, user satisfaction); sustainable business models; larger-scale sustainable uptake and replication beyond the pilot.
– Standards; interoperability; ethical and privacy issues.
Expected impact:
– Substantially prolonging the time that elderly people with cognitive problems or mild dementia can live independently at home and be supported in their day-to-day activities in a socially integrated manner.
– Increase of independence and quality of life of older people, their families and carers
– Increased market potential for European industry, in particular SMEs.
TSB and CSIP Networks would be interested to hear of any submissions from England.
News and publications from the Department of Health for July 2008:
Putting people at the heart of health
End of Life Care Strategy - promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life
Third Sector Investment Programme: Innovation Excellence and Service Development Fund 2009-10 - information pack for third sector organisations
Modernising allied health professions (AHP) careers: a competence-based career framework
Changing times: Sustaining long-term performance against 'Call Connect' for NHS ambulance services
Health informatics review report
Delivering care closer to home: meeting the challenge
Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2007-08. Presented pursuant to section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
DH chooses 40 bodies for information accreditation
Other references and links:
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|House of Lords – 21 July 2008 |
|Baroness Greengross asked Her Majesty’s Government: |
|What plans they have to encourage the use of telehealth and telecare technology to help the management of long-term conditions. |
|Baroness Thornton: My Lords, these technologies hold much promise, but they are not as widespread as they could be, primarily because the commissioners remain |
|unconvinced of their effectiveness and value for money. That is why we are now undertaking what we believe to be the largest randomised control trial of |
|telehealth and telecare in the world. We hope to be able to demonstrate how the technology actually works and how it can improve the lives of people. |
|Baroness Greengross: My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that reply. However, in 2002 the Government set a target for all homes requiring telecare to have|
|access to it by the end of 2010, and in May this year the Secretary of State announced the rollout of the whole system demonstrators in three areas. These |
|pilots were first proposed in January 2006. Will the noble Baroness explain why it has taken quite so long to implement the whole system demonstrators and how |
|the Government intend to ensure that their targets are met? |
|Baroness Thornton: My Lords, the noble Baroness is right to be concerned about delays, but the reality is that the commissioners do need to be convinced about |
|the use of telehealth and telecare. The 2010 date arises from an early paper in 2002 about rolling out telemonitoring as one of a range of options to be |
|considered. Since then, the Government have established an £80 million fund to support promoting and embedding telecare services. The whole system demonstrator|
|referred to by the noble Baroness was launched in May this year; it should have been launched in the new year but was delayed due to the complexity of setting |
|up such an important research programme. Finally, we are establishing an action learning network by the King’s Fund which will run alongside the research. It |
|aims to take up any positive early learning that flows from the demonstrator project and roll that out as well without waiting for its final evaluation. |
|Lord Swinfen: My Lords, will the Government ensure that where a patient has been fitted with a heart monitor or a blood pressure monitor for 24 hours, that |
|information is e-mailed to the consultant immediately or as soon as possible after it is removed from the patient so that the patient can be treated |
|immediately and before their condition deteriorates? They may well have to wait four months before they see their consultant again, and the consultant will |
|probably have forgotten about them. |
|Baroness Thornton: My Lords, the noble Lord points exactly to the benefits of telehealth, which involves electronic sensors and equipment that will monitor |
|people’s health. For example, those with COPD and breathing difficulties will monitor their own oxygen levels at home, but that information will also go |
|directly to the clinician or expert in the area who can monitor the levels and get in touch with the individual within days in order to avert, for example, |
|hospital admittance. The noble Lord is completely right about how it should work. |
|Baroness Tonge: My Lords, an article in this week’s BMJ written by a general practitioner says that the transfer of ordinary in-patient reports, X-rays and |
|scans still takes weeks to reach GPs, and hence the patients, and that this delays their treatment. The situation is so bad that some NHS managers are |
|considering outsourcing medical secretarial work to India. Will the Minister admit that neither telehealth nor the new IT system that we hear so much about |
|addresses this basic problem, and will she resolve to tackle the matter urgently during the Recess? |
|Baroness Thornton: My Lords, I think that the noble Baroness is suggesting that I should not have a holiday. As we have discussed in the House before, issues |
|about new technology and rolling out information technologies—which are of enormous benefit within the health service—take time to resolve and there will be |
|problems. However, I undertake to explore the issue that the noble Baroness raised, and to do so during the Summer Recess. |
|Baroness Knight of Collingtree: My Lords, will the Minister confirm that, however health technology may advance, she will ensure that what happens in so many |
|large organisations does not happen in this field? From BT to councils and even Parliament itself, it is quite impossible to talk to a real person on the |
|telephone. If that should develop here, you would have to have a very long-term condition indeed before it could be cured. |
|Baroness Thornton: My Lords, I have some sympathy with the noble Baroness, having spent some time this weekend on the telephone trying to deal not with the |
|health service but with another part of technology. Telecare and telehealth aim to help people to stay at home. Bed sensors, for example, will tell a warden |
|that someone may have gone to the loo but has not got back into bed. That will give an early warning. It is about providing people with personal care where |
|they most need it. |
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Telecare puts cardiology expertise in the heart of Southampton's primary care
Councils unprepared for England's ageing population (Audit Commission)
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BT to invest £1.5bn in next-generation access
Visa Europe signs with BT for 21CN
BT to roll out fibre network
NuPhysicia LLC Selects CareTone Ultra from American TeleCare Inc. as its Digital Stethoscope
The Good Communication Awards – Cheshire telecare commended
Pensioners hand back alarms in price protest
High quality care for all: King’s Fund briefing on NHS Next Stage Review final
NICE to redesign quality framework, Darzi tells MPs
Lord Darzi's NHS Review highlights telemedical cardiac monitoring ...
Swindells says Darzi 50 per cent about information
CPPC Calls For A National Framework In England To Help Millions Suffering From Long Term Chronic Pain
Blood pressure treatment may help keep mind clear
Use your brain or lose it, brain will shrink with less activity
A Dying Refrain
Dementia patient makes 'amazing' progress after using infrared helmet
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Thousands of people with Alzheimer's disease in this country are ...
Treating blood pressure may help prevent dementia (Reuters)
Project Lifesaver
Women over 90 more likely to suffer dementia than men
Campaigners warn against diabetes risk
Three levels of standards needed to achieve interoperability in EHRs
International terminology toolset in development
Shropshire PCT implements electronic safety alerts
E-Health Primary Care -
NHS Choices selects Capita as preferred bidder
Personal E-health Records May Give Automation a Push
NHS Choices publishes long term conditions guides
FDA approves Intel home medical device
CfH to support trusts with 'interim' systems
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Intel gets FDA OK for personal health system
NHS informatics review set to stress continuity
Keeping A Food Diary Doubles Diet Weight Loss, Study Suggests
E-Health: a market waiting to be consolidated
New information tools promised for commissioning
Access to NHS care records may be widened
Commission issues interoperability statement
Scotland commits to incremental e-health
Body calls EU to integrate e-health into daily health agenda ...
Europe aims for borderless electronic health records
eHealth initiatives to support medical assistance while travelling ...
"Don't Delay EHealth" Advises Health First Europe
Wales opens new health informatics lab
Asklepios rolls out video conferencing to all doctors
EMIS and INPS plan integrated IT system
QoF to be re-focused on health promotion
Scotland launches e-health strategy for 2008
Darzi review stresses choice and information
Scottish GPs to get choice of systems
Government- Launches Financial Assistance for Diabetics on Medicare
J&J unit gets FDA approval for insulin pump
New scheme aims to help dying stay at home
Fall detector brings speedy help to Arthur
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|e-Forum telecare Learning Journey takes place in London |
EC unleashes €600m for development of new digital solutions for the elderly
Intel's Health-Monitoring Tech May Face Rocky Road to Adoption
Animas to Launch its Wireless Glucose Management System by Mid-August
Enfora Unleash Unbound Wireless Patient Monitoring Solutions
BodyTel to Launch GlucoTel System in August
Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring Effective In Diabetes Care
A Sobering Warning on RFID in Hospitals
Seizing the Opportunity Scotland Telecare Strategy 2008 - 2010
Self-reported diabetes is associated with self-management behaviour
100 people a week lose limb due to diabetes
New rules for healthcare
Telecare puts cardiology expertise in the heart of Southampton's primary care
Invicta Telecare celebrate Independence Day
t+ Medical acquires Vivatec Ltd
WiFiMed Holdings Signs Memorandum of Understanding to Purchase iTelecare
New robot brings specialized care closer to home
Alcatel-Lucent seeks US telehealth partner
VNA received $75000 grant for telehealth
Photos: It's virtual everything in Cisco's future
Stabenow, Colleagues Successfully Override President’s Veto
No Longer Just Chips at Intel
Telehealth at Home with Genesis DM
E-Visits: The Next Big Thing in Healthcare?
Medicare bill includes provisions for telehealth
Impact of Telehealth on Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Heart ...
CfH technology boss says paper not fit for purpose
SaskTel and Alcatel-Lucent launch LifeStat(TM) Remote Monitoring and Health Management enabling effective management of chronic illnesses
ExpressMD Solutions™ Signs Distribution Agreement
Medicare and Medicaid
TelaDoc Exemplifies Principles of Patient-Centered Medical Home
Community care keeps patients healthy
European Telemedicine Vendors Adapt to Advances in Technology
ExpressMD(TM) Signs Non-Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Cyntrist to Deliver Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth Systems to Healthcare Providers in the Southeastern U.S.
A&D Medical releases three new telehealth products (US)
Telehealth Technologies Addressing the Global Impending Nursing Shortage
The Value of Provider-to-Provider Telehealth
LifeSource(R) to Unveil New Telehealth Technology at 2008 NACDS ...
Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care ...
AeA Releases 3rd Report Strongly Endorsing eHealth Initiatives
German insurer launches glaucoma telemedicine
eTELEMED 2009 : International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine ...
Technology aids Nevada rural mental health resources
Doctors in Italy learn procedure by watching Hall doctors live via internet
California Telemedicine Video
Costs fall as telemedicine grows
Arizona Prisoners Can Take Heart
Sleek design meets e-health market with Intel Health Guide
Telemedicine for Stroke patients being used at BCH
Cheers and jeers for Medicare 'e-visits'
Author’s Sought for Chapters in The Handbook on Knowledge management in telemedicine
New technology could mean better health care
European Telemedicine Vendors Adapt to Advances in Technology
Arizona Telemedicine Program Links Children to Specialty Care
Medicare e-visits could change the game
Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care in rural areas
Telemedicine Solving the On-Call Dilemma.
AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system
CMS Reimbursement for E-Visits Could Spur New Insurer Rules
Independence Day for Telepresence Solutions in Healthcare
Clinical Management and Patient Outcomes Among Children and Adolescents Receiving Telemedicine Consultations for Obesity
Telemedicine growing in Ohio
NuPhysicia, LLC Selects CareTone® Ultra from American TeleCare
Use of Telemedicine Expanding in rural areas (USA, video)
GeckoSystems Unveils Proprietary Sensor Fusion for Mobile Robots
Philips Launches its First Patient Monitoring System ‘designed for emerging markets in India
It Came From Intel
Hoana Medical secures $1.7M to test patient-monitoring system
Electronic records help doctors, patients work together
New wireless monitoring patch unveiled
Patients to get remote checkups (New Zealand)
Bioheart acquires distribution rights to RTX's heart failure monitor
Intel's in-home health device gets FDA nod
Creating home, high-tech home for frail seniors
Smarter Clothes
Local company at heart of life-saving technology (Belfast)
Matters of the heart
Vital help for caregivers
Wolverhampton Tele-Health Health and Social Care Award Winners 2008
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Heart Felt Wellcome For Wearable Wireless Sensor
Patient Records Move The Blackberry Way
GenerationOne To Launch Mobile Healthcare Care Solution
CSR Show Off Bluetooth Wireless Healthcare Solution
Enfora Unleash Unbound Wireless Patient Monitoring Solutions
Cell Phone-Sensor Technology Used For Prostate Tests
Mobile Phones To Support Healthcare In Rural India
Medseek To Support Microsoft HealthVault
New Software For Diabetic Therapy
Wireless Acid Reflux Test Used By ENT Centre
Trident Funds TelaDoc
Telehealthcare Can Transform Health And Social Care
TPlus Medical Buys NHS eHealth Supplier
Award For Wireless Body Sensor Healthcare Monitor
Sound Way To A Sound Heart
Approval For Wireless Transmitter That Monitors Implanted Cardiac Devices
Dublin Methodist Hospital Seen As One Of Most Wired In US
A&D Medical and FitLinxx Connected By Wireless
Wireless Technology Supports Patient eDiary Service
NHS Foundation Trust Gets Wireless In The Blood
US Doctors Try SMS Patient Reminders
Herefordshire's service which helps people with dementia to stay in their own home - featured on BBC Midlands Today
Pensioner 'died in my arms', councillor tells Birmingham inquiry
Personalisation: Halton Council balances independence and risk
NICE to overhaul QOF under Darzi plan
Exercise Might Slow Brain Shrinkage in Alzheimer's Patients
Will keeping fit fight Alzheimer’s?
Wrist monitor facilitates missing persons searches
Heart disease could hide diabetes
Telford PCT introduces digital dictation
Developing Countries Must Plan Road Map for eHealth
MediVoice(R) Partners With VisionTree(R) to Integrate Its Voice-Activated e-Prescribing Solution Into VisionTree's VTOC(TM) Web-Based Patient Management System
NHS Direct wins award for prescription pilot
NHS Review Highlights Broomwell’s eHealth Solution
Australian e-Health Research Centre
More patients are taking advantage of e-mail consults
Scottish GPs to prescribe telephone therapy
MyCareTeam Adds Support to Diabetes Management Software for New LifeScan Glucose Meters
ASSISTED LIVING: The Model for Person-Centered Long Term Care
Consortium delivers large cost savings
Hospital study to show effectiveness of telecare in transforming dementia care (Taiwan)
St. Jude Introduces Merlin@home Transmitter for Monitoring of Implanted Cardiac Devices
Belfast Health Center Seeks Technology, Medical Device Companies
Promising Opportunities for Cardiovascular Monitoring Equipment in ...
New Wii Remote Patent for Monitoring Blood Pressure
Southlake implants remote heart monitor into patient (Canada)
Coverage & Access - Rising Gas Prices Affecting Home Health Care Workers; Industry Considers Replacing Rural Visits With Remote Monitoring
AMAC Unveils New Walgreens Ready Response(TM) Medical Alert System Television Campaign
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Software to enable remote GP care
Intel's Home Care Remote Monitoring And Communication Device Gets FDA approval
Queen’s develops remote healthcare monitoring
FDA Approves Intel's Home Health Care System
SaskTel and Alcatel-Lucent launch remote health monitoring service
Saskatchewan partners with company on remote health monitoring
Blood Pressure Kit: Your Doctor At Home
t+ Medical Acquires Vivatec Ltd
Heart Failure Study Validates Use of Pharos Innovation's Proprietary, Device-Free Remote Monitoring Platform to Reduce Healthcare Utilization and Medical Costs
Biotronik launches cardiac telemonitoring devices
Home monitoring can help many heart patients
Home Healthcare and Disease Management Remote Monitoring Systems ...
Reimbursement restricts remote monitoring market
Remote patient monitoring market on rise
NHF managers visit Aragon's Telecare showroom
Patient 2.0 Empowerment Abstract—The authors want to show the implication of interactive ICT on patient empowerment, through an overview of some of the key aspects - EHR, telecare and patient networks - all this within the context of recent Health 2.0 developments. Definitions will be given of both Health 2.0 and Patient 2.0 Empowerment.
Taipei Dementia Trial Will Use Tunstall Telecare
WiFiMed Holdings to purchase iTelecare Ltd (UK)
Machine that is changing patients' lives
Telehealth in Southern Alaska
Telehealth funded by Davis Foundation
XTend Medical (XMDC) Launches Online Store
BodyTel's Blood Glucose Monitoring and Diabetes Management System ...
TeleHealth Services And Vocollect Healthcare Systems Announce Reseller Agreement
Electronic feedback messages for home spirometry lung transplant recipients
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Does Telemedicine Have a Role in Technology-Enabled Health Care Reform?
Teladoc
Guest Opinion: VA takes regional approach to health care
XTend Medical (XMDC) Penetrates $118 Million European Telemedicine market
Health Information Exchange and Healthcare Utilization
Bosch to join COCIR
Houston-area Wal-Marts to offer telemedicine clinics
GE Healthcare to Acquire Vital Signs, Inc
Mobile Medics Will Shape The Medical Device Market
Philips introduces new patient monitoring system in India
LifeSync Joins Continua Health Alliance
Fuel's surge a headache for home health providers
Halo system offers 24/7 monitoring
A 'doctor' in your pocket
OLM – telecare reference
Time to rethink blood pressure tests: experts
My Healthy Access, NuPhysicia to operate superstore telemedicine ...
Guam Law To Allow Residents To Receive Care Via Telemedicine
Home automation the key to keeping seniors independent and in their homes
Keeping The Elderly Out Of The Nursing Home And At Home
New Ideas Keep Dementia Patients Safe
Exercise shown to slow down Alzheimer's progress
Walking extra 45 minutes a day helps diabetes sufferers
Launch Of The First Wireless Hospital Blood Glucose Meter
Open Survey Designed to Improve Healthcare and Reduce Medical Costs
James Purnell: Ministers will not prescribe personal budget streams
Clued-up health consumers (CEP)
Nurses to have powers to shape care from bedside to boardroom
Scottish government: Better Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Care: A Consultation Document
Angel telecare – USA
Project Lifesaver
London pharmacies use SMS for stop smoking drive
Open eHealth Foundation sets out priorities
Mobile Monitoring Devices To Power Mobile Health Care
Walgreens Launches Quarterly E-Newsletter Dedicated to People Living with Diabetes
UN + Vodafone focus on mHealth
Platform for wearable health devices launched
New FP7 eHealth Project – EPILEPSIAE (The mission of EPILEPSIAE Project is to use Information and Communication Technologies to empower the epileptic patients to monitor their own risks and improve their safety in daily life, strengthening their social integration.)
St. Jude Medical's Remote Monitor for Cardiac Devices FDA Approved
Using mobile phones to make a healthy connection
Telemedicine in the ambulatory setting
Boost for the vulnerable as Town Hall scraps charges for life-saving alarm system
Partners in Care Foundation and California Association of Physician Groups Collaborate to Transform Healthcare for Older Adults with Chronic Conditions
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a) CSIP Housing LIN Meetings
Full list of Housing LIN events:
Latest Housing LIN Newsletter:
b) CSIP Network’s Mike Clark will be speaking at Enabling People with Long Term Conditions – how telecare, electronic and computer-based technologies can help – London - 16 September 2008
Link and flyer:
c) TSA Conference, Brighton on 3-5 November 2008 - CSIP Networks, Tim Ellis (Department of Health) will be covering the Whole system Demonstrators and Ed Harding from CSIP will be speaking at the TSA Conference – for more details
The Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST) provides a full listing of forthcoming telecare events – see . Suppliers also run telecare and telehealth events – check their web sites regularly for dates.
All previous telecare eNewsletters are available at: icn..uk/telecarenewsletters
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Appendix 1 – Supplier supplement for September 2008
As you know, from time to time we offer some space on an equitable basis to suppliers in the CSIP Telecare eNewsletter newsletter.
We wish to continue to recognise the important work that suppliers have done in responding to their customers and working in partnership to implement telecare and telehealth programmes since 2005/6. For this addition, we are broadening the scope to other agencies and organisations involved in telecare and telehealth implementation.
For organisations that wish to contribute to the newsletter supplement here are the details:
a) Up to 3 pages of A4 (12 point Arial) per supplier in Microsoft Word (we can include a jpeg image/logo but keep the layout and margins simple for copy/pasting)
b) Please use the general definition of telecare from Building Telecare in England to include some form of monitoring/response. The definition is broad to include telehealth, community safety etc.
c) Please include case studies, evaluation findings, innovations. (we are looking for telehealth, telephone support, weather forecast examples and some of the more complex assessment and integrated systems eg for dementia or extra care rather than simpler solutions)
d) We are not looking for advertisements as suppliers can include links to their web sites in the article, it is more about case studies (anonymised), evaluations, device/monitoring options, solutions, examples of products and services in use, achievements. Embedded web links are OK but CSIP will not have time to check them all
e) If you are referencing local authorities, health trusts, housing associations by name please confirm that they are happy for you to use their names
f) The supplement is open to all suppliers/organisations as long as they meet a 5pm, 8 September 2008 deadline. Suppliers involved outside of the National Framework Agreement are eligible for inclusion. This would ensure that all suppliers are treated equitably
g) Where there are sub-contractors and affiliates in the National Framework Agreement, we will link to the NHS PASA current position from the supplement and cross references can be included in the submission. We will limit each company name to one full 2 pages of A4 entry in the supplement although there may be additional linkages through the framework agreement
h) Inclusion in the supplement does not imply any endorsement of the products/services by DH, CSIP etc and there will be a reminder in the supplement to telecare organisations about the importance of making appropriate checks and following procurement and purchasing requirements
i) Word documents can be sent to Mike Clark (CSIP Networks) at telecare@.uk by the 8 September deadline
j) CSIP reserves the right not to include duplicated company/supplier examples and speculative advertisements without information about case studies, evaluations, achievements.
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6 Additional links and references
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