Healthcare Oscar to Home Telehealth Limited
HTL has won a second national award with its innovative nurse-led Telehealth Care Centre. Healthcare excellence and innovation was top of the agenda this week as the country’s best healthcare companies were recognised at the Medilink UK Awards 2009 – the Healthcare Technologies sector’s equivalent to the Oscars. The MediLink UK Innovation Awards were held at the Haberdashers Hall in London on the 16th March, in the presence of over 100 senior sector representatives. The Awards celebrate the achievements of the UK health technology sectors and provide recognition of the achievements of those companies who have excelled. ‘The NHS Innovations Partnership with the NHS Award’, for collaboration with the NHS that resulted in both improved business performance and benefited patient care through innovation was awarded to Home Telehealth Limited. Peter Range, Managing Director of Home Telehealth Limited said "We are delighted to have received recognition from MediWales and MediLink UK that the Telehealth services we are providing are making a significant difference to peoples' lives and also helping to reduce costs in health and social care delivery in the UK” Full Story		David Muxworthy and Peter Range of HTL receive the award from Mary Green, Innovations Gateway Manager, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
HTL Wins Mediwales Health Partnering Award
Home Telehealth Limited wins another prestigious health partnering award with its innovative nurse led call centre service. The third Annual MediWales Innovation Awards was held at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff on 4th November, in the presence of over 100 senior sector representatives. The Awards celebrate the achievements of the health technology sectors in Wales and provide recognition of the achievements of those companies who have excelled. The Partnership with the NHS award, for collaboration with the NHS that resulted in both improved business performance and benefited patient care, was sponsored by GX Design Engineers. The winner was Home Telehealth Limited (HTL) of Cardiff, for their work with the NHS in the provision of a new concept in healthcare. This resulted in HTL being used not only as an equipment supplier, but also as a service provider. The service came into being when Trust Directors decided to use the services of HTL as a Telehealth service provider rather than purchasing equipment and running its own in-house service. This included monitoring and reviewing of patient data by our qualified Telehealth Nurses in the HTL nurse-led Care Centre. The service brought about an 11.77% decrease in hospital admission, a 40% reduction in hospital bed days used, length of hospital stays was reduced from 4.8 days to 2.26 days, a 25% Improvement in ‘Quality of Life’ questionnaire scores and a 24.53% reduction in face to face visits of Community Respiratory Team. Additionally GP visits during monitoring period were reduced by 22.45%, and 36 unplanned hospital admissions were prevented. David Muxworthy, Director of HTL said "We are delighted to have received recognition from Wales' premier health association that the Telehealth services we are providing are making a significant difference to peoples' lives and also helping to reduce cost in health and social care. We hope with the continued support of organisations like Mediwales that we will grow a vibrant and profitable Welsh based Company in the years to come."		David Muxworthy, Director of HTL receives his award from Dr Tony Jewell, Chief Medical Officer for Wales (Above) and with Claire Banks, Business Development Manager and Mark Helmich, Managing Director of GX Design Engineers, Sponsors of the MediWales event (Below).
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HOME TELEHEALTH LIMITED (HTL) HAS RECENTLY LAUNCHED ITS TELEHEALTH CARE CENTRE IN BELFAST. The Care Centre part of its enhanced Telehealth service is being delivered and managed by the staff of Quality Healthcare At Home (QHAH), which ceased delivering service in February.   Belfast Telehealth care centre

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Telehealth 'will reduce hospital wait'

Howard Lucas tests the 'telehealth' device Wales is looking to become a leader in new technology which would allow patients to be treated at home rather than in hospital. "Telehealth" uses developments in communications to send patients' information to their doctors via a phone line. The Welsh Assembly Government is launching its strategy at the National Telehealth conference in Cardiff later. It estimates stays in hospital could be reduced by two-thirds in some cases. Patients with heart conditions, for example, would be given a machine which measures vital signs such as heart rate, weight and blood pressure. The information would then be sent down a telephone line, automatically alerting a doctor or nurse at the other end if there was a problem. Howard Lucas, who suffers from high blood pressure, is the sort of patient who could benefit from the technology in the future.         The machine asks a series of health-related questions After testing the system, Mr Lucas said: "The simplicity is the first appealing part of it." "The fact that you can have it here at your bedside or in the table in the home as opposed to having to trail off to the day centre or the clinic or the doctor's surgery. "I'm on medication for high blood pressure. The system tests you for your blood pressure which gives you peace of mind. "It also does a weight check," he added. I know of three or four companies who are looking to come to Wales immediately because of projects that are imminent   Peter Range The savings to the health service in using systems such as this are potentially enormous. People with heart conditions, for example, could cut the amount of time they spend in hospital by two-thirds. Peter Range is helping to launch the assembly government's telehealth strategy. He believes a change in the way different services work is needed. He said at present health professionals tended to work separately from those in social services who look after people in the community - the key is to bring them together, he said. Wales is already leading the way in the field, according to Mr Range. "I know of three or four companies who are looking to come to Wales immediately because of projects that are imminent - Wales seems to be ahead of the pack."