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£10m boost for Scottish telehealth

The Scottish government has announced that it will invest more than £10m in telehealth over the next four years.
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Scots docs: life shouldn’t begin at 40

A scheme to invite all adults over the age of 40 to complete a health check online or over the
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Full WSD results expected by autumn

The full results from the evaluation of the world’s biggest telehealth trial are not expected to be published in full
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Tunstall is Just Checking

Tunstall has added a web-based activity monitoring system from Just Checking to its portfolio of telehealthcare solutions.
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Birmingham OwnHealth contract extended

NHS Birmingham East and North has signed an extension with NHS Direct and Pfizer to continue to run its Birmingham
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WSD programme ‘looks promising’

Early results from the Whole System Demonstrator trial of telecare and telehealth are “very promising”, according to the Department of
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NPfIT failures have left NHS IT “stuck”

A new report by the NHS Confederation has criticised NHS technology for being similar to the “pre-industrial handicraft industry”.
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Ex-Toumaz boss launches Isansys

The former chief executive and co-founder of AIM-listed wireless body monitoring firm Toumaz Technologies has launched a new company focused
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2020Health: Govt must lead telehealth

Think-tank 2020Health has urged the government to give “firm strategic leadership” to telehealth and not to rely on local health
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Welsh telehealth pilots save £2.2m

Three demonstrator projects in Wales testing new ways of managing chronic conditions including use of predictive risk software and telehealth
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