Telecare Archives

5 August 2010

More evidence on the cost-effectiveness of telehealth and telecare innovations is needed to encourage their wider adoption, according to a

29 March 2010

Dutch company, Philips, has launched a medical alert service that automatically detects if a person has fallen and then calls

18 February 2010

Local authorities are ill-prepared to cope with the demands of an ageing population and must look to telecare as one

23 November 2009

The government has pledged to invest £130m in initiatives such as telecare and home adaptations as part of its free

6 October 2009

The Scottish Centre for Telehealth will become part of NHS24, the special health board that runs Scotland’s national health helpline

28 September 2009

IBM is to launch a telemedicine project in Bolzano, Italy, designed to improve elderly patients' independence and quality of life,

1 September 2009

Birmingham OwnHealth has just seen its active membership top 3,000 for the first time. The telephone help service is a

31 July 2009

A pioneering telephone-based care management programme is expanding to cover patients with a wider range of conditions. Birmingham OwnHealth, which

15 July 2009

The government has identified telecare and online information services as two of the foundations of its proposed National Care Service.

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