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February, 2012
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Epilepsy

The Epilepsy Project in the Republic of Ireland: Lessons for Digital Homecare

Fisk MJ. Handbook of Digital Homecare - Successes and Failures, 2011

Sometimes overlooked from within the range of long term conditions that are being addressed via telecare (care service provision mediated by telecommunications technologies) are the needs of people with epilepsy. This chapter reports on a telecare project (the Epilepsy Project) in the Republic of Ireland that, through the use of bed epilepsy sensors, supported the needs of people with epilepsy and their carers at home. The service developed in the Project is now mainstreamed but operates on a relatively small scale.
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4 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Ireland | Tag(s): Digital Homecare, Epilepsy, Telecare, Telemedicine

Positive feedback to mobile phone support for people with epilepsy iPLATO Healthcare

Pharmiweb.com

“iPLATO Healthcare, leader in mHealth, today reports positive patient feedback from the mobile patient support service provided in partnership with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN).
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8 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Epilepsy, mHealth, Neurology

Wave’s wireless monitoring aims to manage epilepsy

Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews

“In the United States today there are about 3 million people with some form of epilepsy, a medical condition that produces seizures affecting mental and physical functions.
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27 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Epilepsy, mHealth, Monitoring, Wireless

Tele-epilepsie moet aanval ’s nachts opsporen

Lisanne Stolwijk, Medisch Contact

“Een nieuw signaleringssysteem moet thuis betrouwbaar gaan vaststellen of ’s nachts een epilepsieaanval optreedt. Het UMC Utrecht gaat samen met Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland en Kempenhaeghe een dergelijk tele-epilepsiesysteem binnen twee jaar ontwikkelen.
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7 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Epilepsy, Telemedicine

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