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20 minute video of a talk by Dr David Albert with ‘marketing’ lessons for all who want their good idea to go viral: summarised at about minute 19. And if you want to learn more about the device and to see it in action, try this 5 minute YouTube: iphone ekg in action. Heads-up thanks to David Doherty of 3GDoctor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKruGOD2DVY
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Telehealth and Telecare Aware posts pointers to a broad range of news items. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and idiosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's editors can generally live with that variation. However, when we use these terms we usually mean:
• Telecare: from simple personal alarms (AKA pendant/panic/medical/social alarms, PERS, and so on) through to smart homes that focus on alerts for risk including, for example: falls; smoke; changes in daily activity patterns and 'wandering'. Telecare may also be used to confirm that someone is safe and to prompt them to take medication. The alert generates an appropriate response to the situation allowing someone to live more independently and confidently in their own home for longer.
• Telehealth: as in remote vital signs monitoring. Vital signs of patients with long term conditions are measured daily by devices at home and the data sent to a monitoring centre for response by a nurse or doctor if they fall outside predetermined norms. Telehealth has been shown to replace routine trips for check-ups; to speed interventions when health deteriorates, and to reduce stress by educating patients about their condition.
Telecare Aware's editors concentrate on what we perceive to be significant events and technological and other developments in telecare and telehealth. We make no apology for being independent and opinionated or for trying to be interesting rather than comprehensive.
An endearing story. Technology like the iPhone and social media networks have made it possible for the general public to be receptive to new ideas and has enabled the public to conceptualise what is ‘now possible’ from what was previously deemed ‘sci-fi’, or ‘not in my lifetime’. The acceptance real-time monitoring of medical conditions will rapidly expand and using of remotely captured medical information will dramatically change the way patients in future are managed. This ‘idea’ has shown how one physiological parameter, can be linked in a ‘simple’ way to a communication device. The large aging population with long-term conditions are an ideal group of patients who can gain independence from such technology. Purpose built devices such as Doc@Home and similar home monitors will soon share more functions across many such platforms, and by linking into the “cloud” of data storage, enhance the applicability of this new technology.