UK Large business & public sector
Millions of people in the UK live with ill-health, injury or disability. Being diagnosed with a long term health condition can have a huge impact on their lives.
Often, the symptoms associated with the illness are just one of the things that affect people’s health – many people also lose their self confidence and grow anxious when they think their condition is getting worse. [Read more...]
That was the discussion at the seminar ‘How we can industrialise telehealth to ensure we improve and change the lives of patients and users’ at Healthcare Innovation Expo 2103 this week.
The session, hosted by BT with South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, explored how telehealth and telecare can be embedded into normal practice. [Read more...]
By Angela Single, clinical director for telehealth and telecare, BT
For people to embrace telehealth, it must be so normal that nobody bats an eyelid at sending a health update (like vital signs) to the doctor’s from their lounge.
Don’t get us wrong – health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plan to get 100,000 people using telehealth services in 2013 is a fantastic goal. And three million by 2017 is a great start. We’re fully behind it. But it’s just a start. That’s just three million out of 62 million people in the UK. [Read more...]
By Marie Thornton, Senior Marketing Manager, BT Global Services
I’ve worked in IT for over a decade, but technology still wows and sometimes unnerves me…
I was recently on a web conference with an agency and some colleagues of mine. One of the agency people said she felt like she goes from call to call during the course of a working day with barely a break between them. There were mutters of empathy from everyone. I couldn’t help but think how much harder it would be if those calls had to be face-to-face. There would be commuting to do, productivity would be affected, and our already burgeoning workloads would be so much harder to manage. There was a collective hum of agreement from people on the call as I voiced this to them. They were obviously imaging the scenario, and for most of us, it wasn’t hard to do because just a decade ago, that was our working reality. [Read more...]
IDC released results from its Worldwide Enterprise Videoconferencing and Telepresence Qview that show a strong fourth quarter of 2011 for the market.
The company also foresees growth over the next several years, bolstered by the impact of video integrated with unified communications and collaboration portfolios. Furthermore, IDC expects an increasing usage of video among small workgroups, desktop users, and even mobile device users.
Senior research analyst Petr Jirovsky says there is little doubt about the success videoconferencing, and telepresence have had over the past few years. [Read more...]
Chinese foreign acquisitions to date have largely centred on low tech industries such as mining and oil. But that is about to change. China is looking to move up the value chain.
According to Professor Peter Williamson of Cambridge Judge Business School, the next round of acquisitions will be small, high tech companies in Europe—companies with excellent R&D capabilities.
“The Chinese are excellent at volume manufacturing and low cost,” says Professor Williamson. “What they are lacking to move up the value chain and improve the quality of their products is technology and R&D capability. By buying companies in Europe [Read more...]
It’s a time of huge change in the subsea cable landscape of the Middle East region with a massive increase in international capacity due to hit the market pretty much all at once. [Read more...]
