So why is there a ‘100% Written by a human’ flag in the header?

February 11, 2026 | by

And why is it even necessary? If you are a wide consumer of online media, including LinkedIn (oy!), all too many articles and videos are either AI-generated or heavily edited by AI. It’s not just grammar and spelling cleanup anymore (tools which this Editor happily uses, along with her own rolling edits). It has little to do with em versus en dashes or the stringing together of clichés in a Perfectly Processed Article.

TTA, whether written by your Editor Donna, Editor Emeritus Steve, or a guest post, is not written by AI. And we won’t be. (My 6 month layoff should be proof therein!). No AI slop here whether generative or agentic, except as In The News.

Steve Hards put it very well some years back. From the sidebar:

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.

We don’t cover everything and don’t plan to. This perhaps makes us far less marketable than some of our sources, which don’t deviate much from the press releases or the packaged interviews because it pumps up the volume with only a few people writing. Yes, just like Joe Friday on Dragnet (=UK, Jack Regan on The Sweeney who was about 50x rougher than Joe at his worst), we start with just the facts, a/k/a the 5 Ws: who, what, when, where, and why. Sometimes that’s all that’s needed or wanted. But usually, there’s more to the story. I then fill out the background and then opine on What This All Means and why it’s interesting. And yes, we are opinionated, especially when there are broken promises, fraud, or lies, which I no lika.

In increasingly processed and reprocessed media, this Editor (Donna) wants to acknowledge the exceptions. They dive deep and make some major machers (Yiddish for ‘big shot’ or ‘movers and shakers’) uncomfortable. #1 in afflicting the comfortable–Sergei Polevikov. His Substack ‘AI Health Uncut’ goes where no one else does and is so jammed with facts/original research it is often a hard read. It’s linked on the sidebar and yes, requires a moderate subscription fee. #2 to me is MedCityNews‘ EIC Arundhati Parmar, with an honorable mention to Katie Adams. (See this Must Read from last February)

AI content has its place, but not here. For better or worse, irredeemably, Written 100% by a Human. For our Readers, thanks for staying with us especially after last year’s long hiatus. And thank you, Legrand, for continuing to advertise. (Your company can too.)

Do you want to try out writing for something like this? Contact Editor Donna.

(Editor’s Final Thoughts: Two handy guides to spotting (or fixing when you must) AI-generated content: Optimizely and in plain sales-oriented language, Troy Harrison’s blog.)

Situations wanted, talent needed–list with us

August 18, 2015 | by

[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/crystal-ball.jpg” thumb_width=”175″ /]You don’t need a crystal ball to predict….As Summer winds down, thoughts turn to new situations and to fill those gaps in staff. Your Editors would like to assist those who are seeking a new situation–and those companies which have talent vacancies–in these pages. We are accepting new listings for both under the Jobs tab above. See ‘Who’s Available’ if you are looking, and ‘Who’s Hiring’ for positions. ‘Who’s Hiring’ is free for now; ‘Who’s Available’ will always be free as a service to our readers and for the digital health community.

Since 2005, Telehealth & Telecare Aware readers have been the most experienced and talented industry professionals in the UK, US, Europe and Australia. To reach them, you should be posting here. (And advertising–but that’s another story!)

Updated: We have two people now in ‘Available‘–a project manager with deep remote monitoring expertjse in UK and a Spanish industrial engineer with ‘silver market’ experience. No positions yet in ‘Hiring’–a missed opportunity. What company will be the first to correct this? For now, both types of listings are free.

Nominations wanted for our 10th year

January 16, 2015 | by | 8 Comments

[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/10.jpg” thumb_width=”250″ /]You may have noticed from our header above that it is the 10th year of Telehealth & Telecare Aware’s service to the industry. To mark our anniversary, we intend to invite leaders in the field to reflect on the past ten years and (if they dare!) to speculate on the next ten.

But first we would like you, dear Reader, to become involved in the process. Think for a moment…exactly who would you like to hear from? Whose views do you think best represent the last decade of changes taking place in healthcare and technology, improving (we hope!) care delivery, personal safety and well being?

Please post nominations as a comment or email Editor Donna.

TTA’s ‘new’ company page on LinkedIn

September 6, 2013 | by
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/1011449_610221328997030_569473063_a.png” thumb_width=”75″ /]Our Company Page on LinkedIn this past week has been revised (with our new name and logo) and refreshed. We have not done any active promotion and it is still very much a work in progress, but with these changes we invite you to follow the page which initially will have many of our postings from here. If you are already following, no action is needed.