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Brown pledges telehealth for 100,000

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to offer telehealth services to 100,000 people with long term conditions in a speech
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Birmingham PCT to extend telecare to 27,000

A PCT plans to expand its telephone-based care management programme, from 2000 to 27,000 patients, following the results from the
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2008: the year telecare grows up?

A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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Walsall and Hull begin mass telehealth deployment

Walsall PCT and Hull PCT have begun large-scale deployments of telehealth equipment from Tunstall to monitor people with chronic obstructive
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Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs

Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of
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Wales completes satellite diabetic retinopathy deployment

Diabetic patients in Wales can now receive satellite-controlled diabetic retinopathy screening, following the successful implementation of Digital Healthcare’s OptoMize iP
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Scotland completes digital retinopathy roll-out

NHS Scotland has completed the national roll–out of its diabetes digital retinopathy screening service, delivered using web-based e-health technology from
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Staffordshire PCTs hit retinopathy target

Malcolm Gray screens patient Three Staffordshire primary care trusts have managed to meet national targets and screen over 28,000 patients
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Lloyds Pharmacy IT system integrates Multilex DDF

First DataBank Europe (FDBE) has successfully integrated its Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) into Lloyds community pharmacy chain’s new
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Telemedicine growing in use in Germany

Nearly 2000 patients with chronic heart problems and 200 with diabetes are now being monitored through a BKK Taunus telemedicine
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