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THIIS (The Homecare Industry Information Service)

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

Provides up to date details of new products and improvements to existing products (including news update service).

http://www.thiis.co.uk/

The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://www.rsph.org/

British Healthcare Trades Association

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://www.bhta.net/

London Telecare Group

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

An association of London councils’ telecare contacts.

http://www.londontelecare.com/

College of Occupational Therapists

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://www.cot.org.uk/

The Telecare Blog

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://thetelecareblog.blogspot.com/

If you like your telecare preconceptions challenged!

Telehealth Canada

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://telehealthcanada.blogspot.com/

A blog of telehealth happenings in Canada with news from the various jurisdictions and from the Canadian Society of Telehealth.

Steve Brown

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://brown2020.com/

Blog of Health Hero Network founder Steve Brown

Hodges’ Model

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

“A space to reflect on a health and social care model with universal potential”

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ Main Hodges Model site (explanation of the model here). It is a massive resource of links. For the links in just one of the four domains: sciences, see:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksTwo.htm

TelehealthNet

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://www.telehealth.net/index

TEIS

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://www.teis.nhs.uk/

TEIS – UK Telemedicine and E-health Information Service

Intellect Telehealth Group

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://www.intellectuk.org/content/view/3418/47/

Conmergence

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

http://www.edodds.blogs.com/conmergence/

e-CareManagement

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

High-level debate about telehealth in the US. http://www.e-caremanagement.com/

AbilityNet

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

AbilityNet: Helps make all sorts of technology accessible.

www.abilitynet.co.uk

AccessAtLast

December 30, 2008 | by Steve Hards

AccessAtLast: Holidays, and much more for disabled people.

http://www.accessatlast.com

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.