David Sandbach The link to the evidence pack does not work can you please send me the link. Many thanks. Charles Lowe Hi David, the link (http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/igp-cta-evid.pdf) has now been restored - many thanks for pointing it out. Charles... Continue Reading
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Well someone thinks telehealth is good news!
...make a bottom line difference to providers and payers. It is also reacting to a narrowing in its profitable core market–medical devices are now taxed, there have been recent product defect-related ‘scandals’ tarring the industry, and there is pressure to reduce pricey device costs to fit a cost-constrained environment, driven by the new healthcare ‘scheme’ (in both the British and American English senses!) Forbes‘ David Shaywitz has a smart take on it today (though he won’t hold his breath for the pharmas to follow), as well as VC TripleTree’s Chris Hoffman ‘connecting the dots’ and coming up with what we’ve... Continue Reading
Horizon Monday 12th August – ‘Monitor me’ (UK) now with tech update
...introduce some new procurement rules to stop any progress dead. Thankfully your General Practitioners, who keep abreast of the technology, will ignore the NHS guidelines if they can see benefits to the patients. Well done BBC David Doherty Hi Graham, It's not just GP's that will "ignore the NHS - 14.2 year policy - guidelines". Already millions of Patients are side stepping them and buying and installing mHealth apps for themselves eg. the world's best selling iOS mHealth retails from as little as $2.99: http://sleep.motionx.com/ NHS Cardiologists are already buying ECG Smartphone Cases and providing them to their Patients: http://alivecor.com... Continue Reading
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (UK telehealth)
...weight, so other could compare achievements. Perhaps that’s why the authors, Professor David Brodie, Emma Doyle, Dr Jey Radhakrishnan and Dr David Shaw, report that “One of the most striking outcomes was the high number of men who lost weight (almost 90%), because men are often more reluctant to become involved in weight loss programmes”? (For another great example of gamification applied to weight loss, without the technology, see Fitfans in Hull.) Sadly there is no information in the article on the size of the programme…and the implication seems to be that having been shown to be successful it was... Continue Reading
Internet training for older people vs works-out-of-the-box mobiles
Echoing last week’s “the world has moved on” post on the WSD, the 3G Doctor (David Doherty) has an excellent opinion piece on how AGE UK should spend the money given to it by Google for making it to the final six in the Global Impact Challenge that supports British non-profits using technology to tackle tough problems. In discussing Age UK’s current plans to use the money to teach older people about the internet he says: “For the £500,000 AGE UK would spend on training 16,000 seniors they could give away (at retail price!) 10,000 of the latest designed for... Continue Reading
O2 to stop selling telecare & telehealth in the UK
...no? I'm getting from the comments above plus David Doherty's piece http://mhealthinsight.com/2013/07/25/o2telefonica-calls-time-on-o2-health-with-expensive-service-give-away-product-recall/ that it got complex--and O2 wasn't smart enough to offer a smartphone app to determine takeup versus the simple phone. Why they'd go with a troubled response center (Anonymous) is a puzzle. My 'read' based on nothing but the tea leaves is that internally, Telefonica's financial troubles (well outlined by David D.) helped tip the scales to an early demise of Help At Hand. Financial panic spreads like a winter cold in an office. Like an aircraft incident, it's a concatenation of events....pull one or two out and... Continue Reading
myhomehelper wins ‘The People’s Award’ (UK)
In a ‘David v Goliath’ battle on 4th July at the Technology4Good Awards organised by AbilityNet, myhomehelper – a computer-based reminder system for people with dementia – won ‘The People’s Award’ i.e. it was the most popular of 10 entrants voted for by the public. Read the story from the perspective of myhomehelper founder Kevin Marsch here. Information on the awards which may interest others for next year here. Heads-up thanks to Mike Burton, Telecare Coordinator, Hull City Council.... Continue Reading
Sense+ turns a smartphone dock into a potential life-saver
David Doherty Check out the mobile connected smoke alarm from Firetext which appears to have several benefits over this device: http://firetext.me Because it doesn't need a smartphone to be plugged in it doesn't require the resident to have a smartphone, it'll work the other 20 hours of the day you're not charging your mobile, it'll work if you forgot to plug your phone in, it will still work in the event of a power cut, etc, etc. Charles Lowe I welcome all telecare innovations, especially when they can work without the need for expensive infrastructure. However it is just perhaps... Continue Reading
Is Silicon Valley-style thinking right for healthcare?
The always thoughtful David Shaywitz writes about coming out on the other side of the Gartner hype curve (ever so familiar to this Editor) into the ‘plateau of productivity’. He provides some anecdotal evidence from his Silicon Valley experience that you could possibly take the good parts of Hope and Hype and make them work for Health. His qualifiers lead this Editor to the following takeaways, with which Dr. Shaywitz might not necessarily agree: You the entrepreneur may well be thinking about changing the world with your service or device, but you might be better off focusing on solving a... Continue Reading
When mHealth becomes just Health (US)
David Doherty I find it interesting to look to history when any other experience converged to mobile to such an extend that it became outwardly invisible we just began referring it mobile. I think that once we have managed to simplify health experiences through the use of mobile it will be obvious that a similar evolution took place: http://mhealthinsight.com/2012/07/05/why-were-more-likely-to-drop-the-health-than-the-m-in-mhealth/... Continue Reading
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