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Latest news items relating to assistive technology and telecare. These items are sources from various websites related to ATT. For further information, please click on the links in the News item.
RAATE 2007 Call for papers end very soon!
17th July 2007
You only have a few days left to submit papers for the RAATE 2007 conference in Sheffield. The deadline is the 20th July. See RAATE website for more details
RAATE 2007 Conference Exhibition
4th June 2007
Details of the exhibition at the RAATE 2007 conference are now available. The scope of the exhibition is expanding and provides an opportunity to bring together even more different aspects of the Assistive Technology world.
NHS Direct flexes its telehealth muscles
24th May 2007
Long time speculation about when NHS Direct will move into telehealth/telecare monitoring has been put to rest today with the announcement that it is one of the partner organisations for the Newham demonstrator site project announced by Patricia Hewitt yesterday. NHS Direct will be providing the vital signs monitoring (which GPs will also be able [...]
Hewitt announces £12m for telehealth and telecare demonstrator sites (UK)
23rd May 2007
Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of Sate for Health, today announced the three ‘demonstrator sites’. Kent, Newham and Cornwall will, between them, receive £12m this year. They will be working with patients with chronic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or type II diabetes and frail older people with complex health and social care needs. Over 7000 [...]
Disease Management Going Mobile & Retail: QUALCOMM's Health Care MVNO
22nd May 2007
There’s a ding-dong of a discussion about the future of health monitoring via mobile phones going on over on the E-CareManagement blog I referenced last week. Both informative and entertaining, it’s currently up to 21 26 pungent comments! Follow this link to read it. Share This
DH's Hi Tech Healthcare Week (UK)
22nd May 2007
See what the Department of Health’s various Tsars picked as their best technological innovations from the past decade. Share This
What does Patricia Hewitt know about telecare?
22nd May 2007
The UK’s Secretary of State for Health may know more about telecare than you might guess. According to a report by Care Directions concerning the launch of the AT Dementia website Patricia Hewitt ‘extolled the virtues of the new technology introductions… She contrasted this with the time some years’ ago when, as Secretary of State [...]
F&S award for A&D
22nd May 2007
The consulting company Frost & Sullivan shows its continuing interest in the sector with an award to A&D, a telehealth company. A&D has its head office in Japan but its Bluetooth developments have been driven by the evolving market in the USA where its blood pressure monitors and personal scales are being used by several [...]
Cardiocom gets CE marking as it looks towards the UK
22nd May 2007
Cardiocom, the US telemonitoring and disease management company “has formed several distribution relationships in the United Kingdom where the U.K. government [sic] is providing significant funding for telehealth solutions to meet the needs of an aging population.” Cardiocom press release.
(A potentially interesting story here is hidden owing to its lack of plain English. But hey, [...]
WebVMC reaches out to patients on the move
22nd May 2007
Bill Behnke, Chief Development Officer for WebVMC said ?…new capabilities are possible because WebVMC is the only telehealth company whose system is software-based, versus device-based. We can easily expand connectivity to multiple platforms like a smart cell phone, laptop or PDA. Now, patients and caregivers have new flexibility for managing healthcare anytime, anywhere.? WebVMC press [...]