Telecare

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1 July 2008

QoF to be re-focused on health promotion

Lord Darzi’s NHS review outlines plans to overhaul the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) to place a greater emphasis on
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24 June 2008

Biotronik launches cardiac telecare system

Biotronik Lumax 540 German telemedicine device specialist, Biotronik, has launched a new home monitoring device offering remote, wireless advanced patient
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23 June 2008

Bainbridge warns of need for telecare

Health and social care services have five years to develop the telehealth and telecare services they will need to cope
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16 June 2008

Telecare features in government’s Carers Strategy

Telecare will play a major role in ensuring that the 5.2m carers in England and Wales get to have a
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4 June 2008

Care charities say telecare is ‘crucial to future’

The chief executives of two UK care charities have stressed the importance of telecare services and called for the current
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27 May 2008

EHI’s industry news roundup 27.05.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 27 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on
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13 May 2008

Largest ever UK telecare trial starts

The start of the UK’s largest ever trial of telecare and telehealth in a £31m programme covering 6000 people has
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7 May 2008

Commission says e-health must grow up

The deputy head of European Commission’s ICT for Health unit has called for everyone involved in developing e-health to seize
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22 April 2008

Revised telecare framework promises £4.1m savings

The telecare national framework agreement has been updated and should offer potential extra savings of £4.1m according to the NHS
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21 April 2008

Scottish government funds telecare and IT research

University of Edinburgh is to receive a share of £4m funding from the Scottish government to research telemetric supported self-monitoring
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