Telemedicine and telehealth equipment |
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The London Borough of Newham and Milton Keynes Council have received European awards for their pioneering use of telehealthcare solutions to improve the quality of life for older people and those with long-term conditions. |
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The CommonWell project, which is part of the EU initiative to promote better quality and more economically efficient solutions for the provision of health and social services, is an innovative project with participants from five European countries. |
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Connect for Healthcare has introduced a new Internet service available that changes the way long-term care providers can communicate with their patients. |
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Intel has developed the Intel Health Guide, a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals who treat patients with chronic conditions, for the UK. |
21 November 2008: Intel |
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The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) is to partner with Tunstall for 2009 to deliver ADASS objectives through the accelerated application of telehealthcare technology. |
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Coventry Health Care has selected InterComponentWare's Professional Exchange Server (PXS) and Device Connectivity Solution (DCS) as the interoperability platform and infrastructure solution for a home health telemonitoring program. |
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The home cardiac monitoring solution from Broomwell Healthwatch enables people with a history of cardiac problems – such as heart attacks or angina – to have access to an advanced home heart monitoring solution, giving them immediate access to expert diagnosis of cardiac symptoms and providing rapid reassurance for cardiac false alarms. |
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Vocollect Healthcare Systems and TeleHealth Services have agreed a strategic partnership, whereby TeleHealth will resell AccuNurse voice-assisted care to deliver broadened solutions for the needs of its customer base. |
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Broomwell’s telemedical cardiac monitoring service has been highlighted in Lord Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review Report as an example of how to give patients effective and convenient care closer to home. |
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Chubb Community Care is taking ‘Telecare and Telehealth’ on the road in a series of events in England, Scotland and Wales during September and October 2008. |
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Abermed, medical services provider to the North Sea oil and gas industry, has deployed a telemedical ECG service from Broomwell Healthwatch to 20 rigs across the North Sea to help offshore medics diagnose coronary blood clots and correctly administer medication to treat the problem on-site as part of the company’s 24/7 offshore emergency service cover. |
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Klinikum Chemnitz has become one of the first hospitals in Germany to link its teleradiology service with the electronic health record (EHR) by using Siemens to implement the overall technical solution, which included the software for the radiological image communication as well as the Soarian Integrated Care (Soarian IC) eHealth solution for the electronic health record. |
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Evaware has launched a Telehealth Platform that enables clinicians to remotely monitor the vital signs of their home-based patients on an almost constant basis and automatically send alerts when any pre-determined clinical thresholds are breached. |
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Data presented at Heart Rhythm 2008 has shown that remote monitoring of pacemaker patients via the Medtronic CareLink Network detected clinically actionable events (CAEs) more quickly than routine followup care of transtelephonic monitoring (TTM) and inoffice visits. |
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DigiTV, through the Looking Local portal, in collaboration with EMIS is offering a free repeat prescriptions service following the national launch of GP appointment booking through digital interactive TV and mobile phones in 2007. |
12 May 2008: EMIS |
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At this year’s Managing Long Term Conditions conference in Harrogate, Tunstall demonstrated how its telehealth solutions are being successfully used by NHS Trusts to deliver timely, preventative care to its patients. |
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Heritage Ministries Management with headquarters in Jamestown, New York, will deploy Vocollect’s AccuNurse voice-assisted care across their enterprise, which includes three skilled nursing facilities with more than 400 beds in Chautauqua County, New York; Heritage Green, located in Greenhurst; Heritage Park, located in Jamestown; and Heritage Village, located in Gerry, USA. |
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Tunstall has updated its ‘Solutions for Independent Living’ guide to show how telecare provides a new model of care and support, enabling people with learning disabilities, their families and carers, to live full and independent lives. |
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Sheffield Primary Care Trust (PCT) has won the regional finals of the NHS Health and Social Care Awards in the category for Innovative Information and Communication Technology as a result of its innovative deployment of Tunstall telehealth systems to monitor people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). |
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Nottingham City Primary Care Trust (PCT) has launched of one of the UK’s largest mainstream deployments of telehealth solutions, to monitor people with long-term conditions in their own homes, delivering timely, preventative care and improving quality of life. |
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Healthanywhere, a Division of IgeaCare Systems has partnered with We Care Health Services to deliver a telehealth system that provides a comprehensive menu of services for those with chronic diseases and their caregivers. |
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A study of a 12-month trial of a cardiac telemedicine service supervised by the Greater Manchester and Cheshire (GMC) Cardiac Network has shown that the Broomwell HealthWatch telemedical ECG service avoids the need for immediate referral of patients with non-acute chest-pain symptoms to hospital care in the majority of cases. |
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A survey has reported on the success of Cheshire County Council’s county-wide telecare service, which is being used to deliver more proactive and timely care and an improved quality of life for older people and their carers. |
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the USA has awarded Leap of Faith Technologies an $883,593 contract to further develop its drug telemonitoring technology, called eMedonline for use in oncology and clinical trials. |
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Tunstall has confirmed that independent laboratory testing shows that its social alarm radio receiving equipment (including Lifeline home units and Communicall grouped housing systems) is compliant with the new EN300-220-2 Class 1 standard and thereby maintains CE-marking. |
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