Over a period of four years Alere Connected Health’s (ACH) management and specialist telehealth nurses have designed, implemented and delivered a completely new and re-engineered model of community care for people with long-term conditions (LTC) that has resulted in the delivery of a full ‘end to end’ clinical telehealth managed service monitoring over the period for over 1000 patients from two...

T demands for caregiving are increasing as a result of a constant rise in the aging population and patients with chronic conditions. There are more than 40 million U.S. adults serving as informal caregivers for a family member or friend (National Alliance for Caregiving & AARP, 2015). Main caregiving tasks include assisting the care recipient in activities of daily living (ADLs), performing med...

The aim of the study was to synthesise the best available research evidence on nursing professionals' experiences of the facilitators and barriers to the use of online telehealth services in nursing practice. Telehealth is used to deliver healthcare services and health-related information by means of information and communication technology (ICT). The systematic review of qualitative studies wa...

Introduction: Telehealth is an ideal way to lessen the burden on healthcare provision whilst empowering the patient with greater independence, assurance and control. This paper describes the joint development project between NHS South Central SHA Innovation Team and Solcom Limited, an SME specialising in bringing latest Information Technologies to healthcare. Aims and objectives: The aim of the...

BACKGROUND Asynchronous telehealth captures clinically important digital samples (e.g., still images, video, audio, text files) and relevant data in one location and subsequently transmits these files for interpretation at a remote site by health professionals without requiring the simultaneous presence of the patient involved and his or her health care provider. Its utility in the health care ...

BACKGROUND The increasing prevalence and associated cost of treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unsustainable, and focus is needed on self-management and prevention of hospital admissions. Telehealth monitoring of patients' vital signs allows clinicians to prioritise their workload and enables patients to take more responsibility for their health. This paper reports the res...

On the 6–8 March 2012, The King’s Fund and the University Medical Centre Utrecht hosted the second International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare that successfully brought together policy-makers, academics, professionals, users, innovators and industry from countries from all over the world both face-to-face and online. During the three-day event, some 500 delegates, speakers and sponsors we...

The ATA Annual Meeting is the largest telehealth event of the year, with over 450 peer reviewed presentations and the world's largest tradeshow focusing exclusively on telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth technologies. Join 4,000 telemedicine professionals and discover the technologies that are revolutionizing healthcare. The 2012 meeting focuses on the business of telemedicine, model programs ...

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