Comments for Scottish Healthcare http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk Improving Patient Care Through Technology Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Lessons from Richard Pope, Video Consulting Diabetes Consultant by David Barrett http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/telecare/lessons-from-richard-pope-video-consulting-diabetes-consultant/#comment-245 David Barrett Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:28:16 +0000 http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/?p=790#comment-245 Many thanks for the interesting summary of Dr Pope's presentation. As one of his co-presenters, I just wanted to clarify some of the figures in the article. The first three 'key take aways' (150 patients; 202 admissions saved; £93k in net savings) relate to the Hull Heart Failure telemonitoring service, rather than the Video Conferencing ('Telemedicine') service. The Hull service deals only with the monitoring of data (e.g. weight; pulse; BP) with no face-to-face consultation. However, we are working closely with Dr Pope's team as part of the Yorkshire and Humber Telehealth Hub project to identify which patient groups benefit most from video conferencing and which just require 'standard' telemonitoring. David Barrett - Lecturer in Telehealth Many thanks for the interesting summary of Dr Pope’s presentation. As one of his co-presenters, I just wanted to clarify some of the figures in the article. The first three ‘key take aways’ (150 patients; 202 admissions saved; £93k in net savings) relate to the Hull Heart Failure telemonitoring service, rather than the Video Conferencing (‘Telemedicine’) service. The Hull service deals only with the monitoring of data (e.g. weight; pulse; BP) with no face-to-face consultation. However, we are working closely with Dr Pope’s team as part of the Yorkshire and Humber Telehealth Hub project to identify which patient groups benefit most from video conferencing and which just require ‘standard’ telemonitoring.

David Barrett – Lecturer in Telehealth

]]> Comment on Minimising patient waiting times by Bob http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/patient-management/minimising-patient-waiting-times/#comment-7 Bob Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:52:43 +0000 http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/?p=577#comment-7 This is a very good way to manage everybodies time effectively why wait hours at the clinic when you can acheive other task, and accomplish more of your work, while waiting for your turn to arrive, efficiently, calling the technowait system insure you of prompt reply to your doctor meeting. It can only benefit the patient and allow more freedom, while the clinic has less patient waiting for hours complaining about the system. bravo This is a very good way to manage everybodies time effectively
why wait hours at the clinic when you can acheive other task, and accomplish more of your work, while waiting for your turn to arrive, efficiently, calling the technowait system insure you of prompt reply to your doctor meeting. It can only benefit the patient and allow more freedom, while the clinic has less patient waiting for hours complaining
about the system.

bravo

]]> Comment on mHealth: The future of health is mobile by Osmán Argüello http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/mhealth/mhealth-the-future-of-health-is-mobile/#comment-6 Osmán Argüello Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:24:12 +0000 http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/?p=451#comment-6 Excelent Work, We must transform the world with the technology applied in health Osmán Excelent Work, We must transform the world with the technology applied in health

Osmán

]]> Comment on Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine by Dr Liz Miller http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/mobile-health/eric-topol-the-wireless-future-of-medicine/#comment-5 Dr Liz Miller Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:04:30 +0000 http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/?p=412#comment-5 The way forward is preventing illness - not by direct marketing sickness to the population - what a scary future! By the middle of this century we will look back in horror at what we did to ourselves in the name of medicine. Heart failure will be seen as a lifestyle aberration, cancer a result of environmental and dietary pollution and autoimmune disease as an interesting interpretation of indirect biochemical tests! This is sad! and definitely not the future as I see it! Time for a healthy and balanced future not some drug based coma produced by controlling medical-dietary-industrial complex The solution is not medicine!!! medicine is too expensive and does nothing to prevent the problem. What a shame that such a good communicator is so hooked on being a doctor! The way forward is preventing illness – not by direct marketing sickness to the population – what a scary future!

By the middle of this century we will look back in horror at what we did to ourselves in the name of medicine. Heart failure will be seen as a lifestyle aberration, cancer a result of environmental and dietary pollution and autoimmune disease as an interesting interpretation of indirect biochemical tests!

This is sad! and definitely not the future as I see it! Time for a healthy and balanced future not some drug based coma produced by controlling medical-dietary-industrial complex

The solution is not medicine!!! medicine is too expensive and does nothing to prevent the problem. What a shame that such a good communicator is so hooked on being a doctor!

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]]> Comment on Service designed from the patient's point of view. by Software from the Patient Perspective - Our New Leading Role | RememberItNow! Blog http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/patient-point-of-view/patients-point-of-view/#comment-3 Software from the Patient Perspective - Our New Leading Role | RememberItNow! Blog Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:40:31 +0000 http://scottishhealthcare.co.uk/?p=216#comment-3 [...] Pam recently had a great interview with John Farrell, of MobileHealthWatch.com.  So we couldn’t wait to share the news of our coverage in his two articles, “Software from a Patient’s Point of View“, and  ”Health Care Consumers Look to SMS”.  These have been featured in HealthCareGoesMobile.com and ScottishHealthCare.com too. [...] [...] Pam recently had a great interview with John Farrell, of MobileHealthWatch.com.  So we couldn’t wait to share the news of our coverage in his two articles, “Software from a Patient’s Point of View“, and  ”Health Care Consumers Look to SMS”.  These have been featured in HealthCareGoesMobile.com and ScottishHealthCare.com too. [...]

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