Angela Single, of BT, has been re-elected as chair, and Ileana Welte, of Bosch UK, elected vice-chair of the 3millionlives (3ML) industry working group. Press release (PDF)
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Angela Single, of BT, has been re-elected as chair, and Ileana Welte, of Bosch UK, elected vice-chair of the 3millionlives (3ML) industry working group. Press release (PDF)
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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.
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[Ed. Steve posting for a reader who needs to remain anonymous]
Am I the only person who thinks that the officers of 3ML shouldn’t be actively bidding to become providers to 3ML sites? Has the concept of ‘conflict of interest’ not reached the higher echelons of the telecare world?