Tunstall Healthcare is a technology company established in 1957 which specialises in digital health and care services. Its head office is in

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. It has around 3,000 staff in 19 countries, and 5 million connected end users worldwide. It is regarded as a key player in the

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market. The Chief Executive Officer is Gordon Sutherland. It acquired American Medical Alert Corporation in December 2011. It sold Tunstall Americas to Connect America.com in January 2019 as part of its move towards a technology-enabled managed services business model. It is working with

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to provide remote patient management systems and services to boost its capabilities in preventive care at home for people with chronic conditions. It produced a report with the charity hft which was launched in the

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in 2019 highlighting the untapped potential of assistive technology in social care which was welcomed by the

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. In 2021 it acquired Secuvita, a technology solution provider based in the Netherlands with 70,000 users. In 2022 it bought BeWo Unternehmensgruppe, a German company.

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