Telecare Aware has moved – see below

Organisers of the recent Med-e-tel Conference in Luxemburg have posted presentations and papers for your to browse. Med-e-tel website.

The good news: Telehealth study of 216 people begins

Carematix and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing to conduct a four-year study on the effectiveness of telehome monitoring. The study is funded by a grant for more than $1 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research.

Link to Med-e-Tel’s current Telemedicine and eHealth Directory (PDF 2.4mb)

With the new Stanford University Network for Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (SUNDROP), Dr Moshfeghi can now obtain and view computerized images of the retina of a distant child without leaving his desk. What took hours out of his day before now takes minutes.

Forty chronic heart failure patients in Barnsley are using Docobo’s doc@HOME remote monitoring telehealth service, answering health and quality of life questions, and taking physiological measurements. Adrian Flowerday, MD of Docobo commented: “The team at Barnsley are one of the first in the UK to equip a significant number of patients with telehealth, and their careful and practical approach to the project is both innovative and bold.”

Residents at Beverwyck assisted-living home in Albany get weekly checkups at an electronic kiosk in the lobby. “I want to make sure I’m alive every morning,” jokes 87-year-old Thomas DiFrancesco…Though there is little hard data tracking its growth, there is mounting evidence that more people are using telemedicine. The number of companies manufacturing home telecare devices in the last three years has tripled to 15, and the Veterans Administration plans to double the number of patients it puts on home telecare to 20,000 during the next year…

Neat little blog entry on telemedicine contains simple message and links to further information.

As we recently noted, Phillips is starting to make a stronger play in the telemedicine/telehealth arena. Here is a link to its home site for these products.
As we recently noted, Phillips is starting to make a stronger play in the telemedicine/telehealth arena.

ALRT medicine compliance system: “Ideal for patients with COPD, Asthma, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, AIDS/HIV, psychiatric conditions or dexterity issues (tremors, severe arthritis), mild to moderate dementia as well as patients with complicated medications schedules, such as congestive heart failure and organ transplants.”

‘Due to an increasing population, a global shortage of physicians and other healthcare professionals, as well as increasing health costs, Telemedicine is perceived by many to be a lifejacket held-out to a society immersed in the turbulent sea of healthcare.’ Odd metaphor for a sub-Saharan project, but a worthwhile project nonetheless.