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Author Archives: Cathy Stephenson
Telemedecine – Centre for Rural Health
News of a Scottish lead in a European funded project: The Centre for Rural Health will lead a Northern Periphery Programme (NPP) strategic project entitled ”Implementing Transnational Telemedicine Solutions” (ITTS). The project includes partners from 6 northern European countries; Scotland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Republic of Ireland … Continue reading
Taking the lead?
On the main site there was a recent report that The Royal Family were not adopting Telecare for their elders; however, according to this report in The Courier technology is on the Royal agenda in the shape of iPad. A researcher … Continue reading
Telecare Supports Carers
iriss Insights 08 is a document underlining the benefits of telecare to unpaid carers and can be found at this link iriss_insight8_telecare.
Confirmed Investment in Health Technology
At last years Holyrood organised conference on Telecare and Telehealth one of the keynotes addressed the concerns that patients may have about privacy of their data. This week the Scottish government has awarded a £1.1m contract for privacy breach protection … Continue reading
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Tagged audit, data privacy, Northgate Managed Services, pateint confidentiality
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Protesting Council Community Alarm Price Rises
Unhappy Angus residents are angered by the Council’s Community Alarm price increase reported here in The Courier. The report does not clarify whether the anger is truly about the cost or whether it is about lack of community engagement from … Continue reading
Shifting the Balance of Care in the Isles
After a very quiet few weeks during the electioneering and as we wait for all the news that will spill out of today’s vote here is a report from the Shetland times about confirmed funding under “Shifting the Balance of Care” … Continue reading
Tortoise speed Telecare?
No the tortoise analogy is not to progress in the Scottish telecare sector but to the almost non existent relevant news … I figure you can all see the electioneering and it really isn’t news is it? But I did … Continue reading
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Scot’s advice to English Telehealth
Dr James Ferguson (lead clinician at the Scottish Centre for Telehealth) shares his view as to the slower adoption of telehealth south of the border in this Guardian article. Although the focus of the article is on telemedicine I did find … Continue reading
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Social media engagement to improve assistive technologies
Now here is an interesting take on how to engage with the people who can benefit most from well designed assistive technologies and get them involved in the design itself. Blackwood Foundation has won lottery funding to use purpose developed … Continue reading
Heartwarming take on “Care home”
With no apologies for the lack of Telecare, I wanted to share this article -a good example of “community”, “care”, “befriending” … enjoy. Well done Drummond Community High School for establishing these valuable connections.
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Upcoming Conferences and Events
Looking a little further ahead to some events around Scotland in May 2011, some of the following have early registration discounts and some are free but have a registration deadline. I am always amazed how many events are going on … Continue reading
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Scottish National Care Service
Tiptoeing past the politicians, regardless of the outcome of the Scottish Elections the independent report by a team lead by Sir John Arbuthnott sets out a call for a National Care Service – if implemented it would certainly change the … Continue reading
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New Product – Personalisation
We will hear a great deal over the coming year about Self-Directed Support (Scotland), personalisation, person centred planning and co-production. These were key themes at last week’s Long term Conditions Alliance Scotland conference. At one of the workshops, hosted by … Continue reading
Posted in Events and Conferences, Products, Self-Directed Support
Tagged LTCAS, PCP, Personalisation, Self-Directed Support
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RESEARCH – Melatonin in Alzheimer’s Disease Project
A Press Association item on Yahoo News 28.3.11 announced further research by Glasgow based CPS Research into the effect if Melatonin on Alzheimer’s disease patients. Telecare can contribute to individuals remaining more independently in their community for longer, however, we … Continue reading
Telecare for Sensory Impairment
A recent report about fire detection Telecare in East Renfrewshire highlights the importance of assessing the need for Telecare to be adapted to incorporate alerts for those with sensory impairment. The Evening Times carried this article. UPDATED: and a further … Continue reading
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