I was disappointed to see that a recent report entitled "The Impact of
e-Health and Assistive Technologies on Healthcare" did not seem to
mention communication aids, environmental controls or nearly anything
else that I think people on this list would consider Assistive
Technologies. (I say 'didn't seem to' because I haven't yet waded
through the entire 75 page tome, but a quick electronic search of the
pdf document didn't throw anything up.
Admittedly the group that produced the report is predominantly from a
Health Informatics perspective but it still annoys me to see the term
assistive technology used without mention of AAC or EC. Yet again the
telecare agenda obliterates everything else.
Also, on an extensive list of contributers in the appendix, only two
names were vaguely familiar to me from the EAT world. I'm going to
contact the authors to let them know what I think. I've got half a toe
in the Health Informatics world myself and generally think it's a great
field, but they've made a pigs ear of this one.
Anyway,...I just felt like a rant after leafing through it...thanks for
listening !!!
If you'd like a look its here :
http://www.health-informatics.org/tehip/tehipstudy.htm
Cheers
Gary
Gary Derwent
Compass Electronic Assistive Technology Service
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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