A new telehealth application has been launched to help local authorities and healthcare providers avoid pricey commissioning mistakes and choose the most cost-effective home technology to improve the lives of more than 17 million people in the UK.

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Want to find a distributor in the USA for your healthcare product, or a partner for some new product development? Need to meet with service users for your new chronic condition/patient monitoring product?

If you are based in the West Midlands we have financial support to do just this.

UKTI, through AWM, is offering West Midlands SMEs in the Life Science market £650 to visit any of the tradeshows listed below, no strings attached.

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The University of Warwick has announced that Professor John McCarthy has been appointed as Professor in the University’s new School of Life Sciences and as Head of that School. Professor McCarthy will join the University on 1 October 2010.

 

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Representatives from two of the world’s leading mobile phone service providers will join senior professionals from healthcare and academia to debate for the first time the future potential of smart phones and mobile apps for GPs and medics on the move, at the first of a unique series of events in the West Midlands.

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People in Staffordshire are the first in the UK to benefit from a new telehealth application from assisted living specialists Alvolution that enables health and social care professionals to provide personalised technology prescriptions.

Staffordshire County Council is a trailblazer in the UK, piloting the comprehensive product comparison website from Alvolution. The site is already being used by a cross section of public sector workers involved with the health or social care of up to 800,000 Staffordshire residents. The comparison website helps these professionals choose the best product package for individuals, using their personalised budgets.

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A Staffordshire-based provider of early drug development software has signed a deal worth £420,000 with a US government agency. It has purchased Instem’s products on an initial two-year contract.

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The Government’s recent white paper on ‘Liberating the NHS’ lays out proposals which look set to have a dramatic effect on the way the healthcare market does business with the NHS.

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Two hundred and forty companies from across the West Midlands have been awarded a share of a £5.8 million Concept Grant Fund set up to promote and support economic growth through innovation, in the West Midlands.

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