Carlisle Housing Association and Carlisle and District Primary Care Trust has praised the success of telemedicine in providing proactive care and support and improving the quality of life for people with COPD. Read more.
Archive for the ‘Telehealth’ Category
Tunstall telemedicine in Carlisle
Monday, October 3rd, 2005Reliability of home monitoring device under question
Monday, October 3rd, 2005Melissa J. Goalen, a nurse practitioner at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, tested more than 100 home-monitoring [blood pressure] devices and found that about 20 percent yielded measurements that were inaccurate. Read related article.
Singapore Telehealth
Monday, October 3rd, 2005Telehealth monitoring via web and SMS service in Singapore. Click here.
Telehealth – Different contexts
Monday, September 5th, 2005The following two articles describe the potential application of telehealth technology in schools and in military contexts.
Implantable heart monitor alerts via satellite
Thursday, September 1st, 2005Loyola University Health System is the first hospital in the U.S. to implant into a patient a new FDA-approved defibrillator which can automatically send a signal to a doctor via wireless satellite transmission if a patient’s heart beats abnormally or if the device malfunctions. Read here.
New US telehealth system
Thursday, September 1st, 2005ALR Technologies Inc. in the US announced they have reached significant milestones in development of their disease management home monitoring system. It is also moving forward on plans to add diagnostic monitoring to their home monitoring system. This will enable medical personnel or other caregivers to remotely monitor on a daily basis such key data as blood pressure, blood glucose, heart rate and use of nebulizer compressors. Read the press release here.
Weightless heart monitoring has down to earth implications
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005NASA’s conducting clinical tests on the ground version of its system for monitoring astronauts. This includes GPS to track the patient’s location. In an emergency, the hospital will know where to find the patient. “Doctors will be able to check on their patients using any cell phone, handheld digital device, laptop or desktop computer with a Web browser.” According to NASA its Embedded Web Technology could help monitor patients with diabetes, wounds, pulmonary problems and other conditions. “This technology can be used to control or monitor any device that contains a computer, software, input sensors and output actuators…In other words, you could use it with a car, DVD player, fax machine or kitchen appliances.” Read more.
US telehealth monitoring costs cut
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005“The medical industry is already squeezed financially supporting chronically ill patients, and MedStar home monitoring alleviates some of this pressure, while improving patients’ outcome,” says Dr. Charles J. Jacobus, President of Cybernet Systems Corporation. “Avoiding one day of unnecessary hospitalization pays for almost 3 years of monitoring expenses.” Read in full.
Europe-wide heart monitoring trial shows promise
Friday, August 19th, 2005Eleven centres in three countries, England, Poland and Italy, participated in the Heart Failure in Hospital and Home (HHH) trial. Around 450 patients with heart problems were signed up for the randomised controlled trial. Read here.