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An analysis in the US has suggested the remote monitoring of elderly patients is linked to substantially increased death rates, casting doubt on the Department of Health's flagship project to roll out greater access to telemedicine.
The findings come as the DH confirmed the full results of their Whole Systems Demonstrator Project will be published shortly in the BMJ, after criticism that it had not published the full results.
The American study is a further blow to ambitious plans to increase the use of telemedicine in the NHS to save the health service up to ?1.2bn over five years.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...ients?sp_rid=NjU3NzMyNzAyOQS2&sp_mid=39099368
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The findings come as the DH confirmed the full results of their Whole Systems Demonstrator Project will be published shortly in the BMJ, after criticism that it had not published the full results.
The American study is a further blow to ambitious plans to increase the use of telemedicine in the NHS to save the health service up to ?1.2bn over five years.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...ients?sp_rid=NjU3NzMyNzAyOQS2&sp_mid=39099368
(free registration required)