but a pointer to the future. After that, find a spare 40 minutes and watch the video on Intel’s website of Paul Otellini announcing the World Ahead Program. It’s thought provoking stuff.
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Telemed Watch
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Telecare – Providing Dignity, Security and Efficiency
1) To view it via internet you will need to provide your contact details to this commercial company, GBTV’s LocalGov TV (not to be confused with the LGA’s Local Government Channel on www.localgovtv.com) . The quid pro for viewing the video is that you will receive marketing material. It is available to buy on DVD, but the price isn’t revealed on the site.
2) The programme is split into segements. The viewing lengths are:
- Expert Panel – Telecare Opportunities: 7 min
- Case Study- Notts Care Services – Award Winning Telecare: 6 min
- Case Study- Cheshire County Mainstreams Telecare: 8 min
- Case Study- Safety Confirmation – A New Approach to Telecare: 5 min
- Policy Drivers and Initiatives: 3 min
- Clarifying the Terminology: 4 min
- Service and Technology Options: 4 min
- Procurement through PASA: 3 min
- PTG Preventative Technology Grant: 2 min
- Key Challenges: 7 min
- Local Authority Progress to Date: 7 min
- The Future for Telecare: 6 min
Westminster – Cisco’s Wireless City
6 minutes 30 seconds.
Title: Westminster – The Wireless City: Improving Business and Services with WIFI.
This addition to the video library should give ammunition to all who are looking for substantial investment in telecare. The video itself shows how Westminster invested many millions in wireless CCT systems to help keep its citizens and visitors safe on the streets. How about a similar spend to keep them safe in their homes? View the video on the Cisco site via the above link.
Brunel University / Chorleywood Health Centre Telemedicine
One of the best telemedicine videos to date, doctors, other staff, patients and hospital consultants discuss the benefits to each of them.
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Alertacall Telecare item on local TV news
Mobile Teledicine Vehicle
Preparation for the Great Californian Disaster maybe? The Loma Linda University Medical Center which produced this vehicle, and the video, is a Seventh-Day Adventists’ healthcare institution.
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Telecare Soapbox: TSA National Telecare & Telehealth Conference 2008
An appreciative comment on the Telecare Services Association’s 2008 conference in Brighton on 3-5 November by ‘telehealth convert’, Consultant Cardiologist Dr Lance Forbat. (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: Access to emergency services: a right, entitlement or privilege?
Steve Hards: Are telecare users – in the UK at least – at risk of being denied an emergency service response? (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: Council runs liability risk with inappropriate telecare provision
James Batchelor, MD of Alertacall, raises a serious issue for councils and other telecare suppliers: what risk is a council running when its employee substitutes a ‘standard’ but inappropriate equipment package for a privately-funded one that was more suitable for the client? Would the person’s consent to the course of action be a defence if the consent were based on inappropriate advice? (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: Tesco Telecare – How far away?
This item by Paul Gee, Chief Executive of the UK’s Telecare Services Association (TSA), was originally published Autumn 2007 in the TSA’s magazine. (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: What’s wrong with the UK’s model of telecare?
Telecare practitioner Rufus Handy articulates in a forthright manner what many people seem to be thinking about the way telecare is currently being presented and implemented. (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: Telecare ‘Smart Homes’ Nowhere Near Smart Enough
The Smart House movement pre-dates the introduction of telecare. Guy Dewsbury challenges the current trend of branding telecare-enabled accommodation as ‘smart’. Read his Telecare Soapbox item: and here is a links to a press release that exemplifies what he is objecting to. ‘Smart House’ uses new technology to promote independent living (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: Postscript to the UK budget announcement
What was Chancellor Gordon Brown up to when he announced that the VAT rate on equipment to help older and disabled people live independently would reduce to 5%? Steve Hards reflects. (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: LTC demonstrator sites to kill off small telecare suppliers?
Speculation by Steve Hards, concerning the potentially double-edged effect of the Department of Health’s large ‘White Paper pilots: whole system long term conditions (LTC) demonstrator programme’. (more…)
Telecare Soapbox: Tortoise or Hare – Who’s going to win the Telecare Race?
Dr Kevin Doughty, of the University of York’s Centre for Usable Home Technology speculates on the prospects for successful mainstreaming of telecare in the UK. (more…)
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