Telehealth Group

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Telehealth and remote personal care and monitoring has huge potential to help people better manage their long term conditions and other conditions. The government has set ambitious targets to get three million people supported through telehealth over the next few years. What are the challenges and how can they be overcome? What are the benefits? What works and what doesn’t?

13 January 2012

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Mike@tech

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Would a High Street presence encourage Telehealth take up?

I would like people's opinions on this because I believe this is the way forward. I am very naive when it comes to business so any and all thoughts will really help me sculpt my thoughts on this.

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Might be worth looking at

http://bluejeans.com/video-conferencing. If it can link everything together as it says, it will be a great way forward to maximise all those desktop conf units that are out there.

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Mike@tech 4 weeks ago Looks good but... I think I'm the but man. NHS, Gov, Local Gov are all scared of this. Especially sc...

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King's Fund event

While the WSD peer reviewed papers were yet to emerge before the King's Fund event last week, some interesting tid bits of information from the trials were revealed.

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It all starts with the TV

The TV is Old People's window on the world. They are the ones with the most chronic conditions. A device atop their TV can cut down on the number of expensive out-patient visits.

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Mike@tech 4 weeks ago I totally agree but in the real world.... of silo budgets, back to what I keep banging on about. Fina...

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How to get to 3ML?

With the government wanting to get three million people using telehealth by 2015/16 what are the necessary steps that need to be taken if we are to start to see telemedicine become adopted at true scale?

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Mike@tech 12 weeks ago £10k ante I find this amazing. £10k gets you in the 'club' of industry suppliers for 3ML - NHS will s...

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Introduce yourself

Welcome to the Telehealth Group. Please introduce yourself to other members of the group by replying to this discussion.

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Sue Peirce 12 weeks ago Academic researcher - ECG telemonitoring I'm on my current research project that involves telemonitor...

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