8 minutes

Good YouTube videos are hard to make. They should be informative, good-natured and, if not out-and-out funny, unintentionally amusing. This one, by Pittsburgh-based Secure Telehealth hits the spot.

IALC: The Telecare and Telehealth Market. 10 minutes

Excerpt of Dr Kevin Doughty speaking at the Independent Assistive Living Conference. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, he reflects on timescales, the difficulty of using people to solve care delivery problems, and house design. “The window of opportunity is forever.”

16 minutes
“It would be a step backwards to work without telehealth now” says one of the nurses in this excellent overview of telehealth as it implemented now, in the Hebrides islands off the north west coast of Scotland. (Also has a passing reference to telehealth in Sheffield – not in the Hebrides) Nice work by the video’s maker, Ged Yeates.

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17 minutes

Eric Dishman gave an impassioned presentation at TEDMED in November 2009 but the video has just been released. He focuses on the need to bring much of healthcare out of the hospital and into the home by illustrating the research that Intel has been doing for the past 10 years. The video is an informative – and possibly inspiring – 16 minutes, after which you might want to go to the TEDMED site and scroll down to read the comments. Some are pertinent, some miss the point and at least one is decidedly cranky. They are a useful reminder of what we are up against.

Essentially the same presentation as his week-earlier keynote at last October’s Connected Health Symposium (see this editor’s report here), but you can now see this important presentation for yourself:  from ePatient Connections, Jason Hwang, M.D. on disruptive innovations in healthcare decentralizing care, and the historical futility of cramming new technology into old business models.  Dr. Hwang is Executive Director of the Innosight Institute and co-author of The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, with Professor Clayton M. Christensen and the late Jerome H. Grossman.  Thanks to Paul Sonnier of CommNexus (San Diego) for bringing this to our attention (and Kru Research for posting on their site).

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You can buy the book (GBP £):

The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

You can buy the book (USD $):

The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

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LocalGovTV interviews James Ferguson, clinical lead at the SCT who, according to the publicity, “discusses how a nationwide hi-tech drive is enabling people to communicate with consultants remotely to prevent hospitalization and support carbon reduction targets…Scottish residents can now benefit from video-conferencing and photo assessments to streamline access to healthcare wherever they are located…Mr Ferguson also addresses how to overcome barriers to adopting this technology so that other trusts and local authoritites can realise the enormous benefits.”

The catch is that to view the video you have to give up contact information that will be used for marketing by the video’s unnamed sponsor – and there is no privacy policy on the site which spells out just what else LocalGovTV will or will not do with that information. http://www.localgov.tv/JamesFerguson

20 minutes: Health 2.0 Conference

This video is over a year old and was posted as a lead-in to this year’s Health 2.0 conference. I hope they leave it online because he has some important messages for health services and telehealth/telecare providers that care to listen. It’s a thought-provoking 20 minutes. Get coffee and a pen and paper to jot down your responses – then post them here. Clay Shirky Health 2.0 2008 keynote speech video.

5 mins 20 seconds: Medgadget

Not remote patient monitoring, but activity monitoring for wider health/fitness purposes. Interesting marketing tagline: Every Movement Counts.

Five videos (approx 15 mins total viewing) Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia

‘Terrible’ web page, but links to interesting videos at the bottom – persevere if they do not play easily. [The first seems particularly problematic, and complain to the site, not me, if they do not work for you!]. The ‘magic carpet’ will interest most Telecare Aware readers. Aging in place.

3 mins: Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect at Home – Strengthening Relationships

Given that this is the way most of the public would expect an electronic health record to work, including this video should be unremarkable. However, that patients can access it themselves and communicate about it with their physicians via their home internet is a step forward. This community, of course, would be looking for it to be possible to upload remote health monitoring data too. And, if you are anticipating that the interviewed patient will say that her doctor ‘is there for her’, you won’t be disappointed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FfZpYHepaU
Related videos available here. [Heads-up thanks to Bob Pyke.]

9 minuites. US Department of Veterans Affairs

Excellent video showing three examples of health delivery at a distance and its benefits to patients and staff. After watching, you may want to read an article about the telehealth facility at Craig, which gives some more information and a nursing perspective.

4 minutes 49 seconds. Cambridge Consultants

‘Cool video’ in that bouncy YouTube way, BUT a pointer to the near future that you need to watch, nonetheless. It’s light years from the time when pendant technology was cutting edge.

5 minuites. UTS Health

The following website is an interesting concept that points to a possible future for user-controlled health information.

Set up by UTS Health, a subsidiary of software company Indigo Byte Systems (UTS = Universal Tracking System), the site is a combination of user networking/health information sharing/mutual support and health information provided by the company, and a place to track your health monitoring data (privately, if you wish). The best way to grasp it before visiting the UTS website is to view their introductory video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AADsVCuwCEY

Secreenshot of this web page, taken in case the page is removed in future.