Developments in Telehealth, Telecare, mHealth, eHealth, etc.

International Centre of Excellence in Telecare (UK)
(Great development, risky acronym)

Wii does not get families fit: new research
(Not a surprise?)

59p stethoscope on iPhone proves a hit
(Definitely a surprise)

'Aging in place' technology trends for 2010
(Good end-of-year round up)

Sponsorship opportunities
(Yes, we still have some!)

£100M cuts to NHS budget in Cambridgeshire
(Reality v aspiration)

December's Telecare LIN eNewsletter published
(WSDAN update)

Texas telemedicine via NowClinic
(Improving access to doctors in the US)

Using old TV bandwidth to expand rural telehealth
(After the switch to digital TV)

Burglars spooked by panic alarm
(Two good news stories)

Non Invasive Health Monitoring with mHealth
(Informative slide show)

George MacGinnis: "300,000 or more smart homes" in UK
(By whose definition? And where did that statistic come from?)

Bayer diabetes device with PC interface
(A halfway step)

Wireless health 2009 roundup
(Substantial, free report)

Smart 'reality checklist' for 'aging in place' technology marketers
(US marketplace info)

Telecare Aware Updated

Twelve updates since Tuesday:

Telefónica Caalyx system announced (Spain)
(New product shows cross-Europe cooperation)

100-year-old lady with dementia saved by telecare service (UK)
(But where was the technology to prevent the fire?)

Call for articles: Journal of Assistive Technologies
(Get writing)

Alphadaughters web site
(Get recording - well, not yet, it's just a demo)

Telepsychiatry in the emergency department
(Long overlooked)

Livestrong's diabetes diet analysis tool
(Thanks to Tour de France multiple-winner Lance Armstrong)

CardioNet up for sale?
(Medicare reimbursement cuts blamed for financial problems)

Barnet: Judge stops warden withdrawal plan
(Has implications for telecare services)

Tweeting your...weight?
(Why?)

Parents receptive to mobile phone monitoring of children's diabetes
(Why not?)

E-communication tools and their impact on medical practices
(A thoughtful essay)

UCL study on EHR failure
(The larger the EHR project, the more likely it is to fail)

...plus comment on Newham WSD item

Telecare, Telehealth, eHealth, mHealth, news updates

New since Friday:

What's up with the Newham WSD project?
(Can tell us?)

Sensor-based monitoring coming to an iPhone near you?
(Pointer to the future)

Harvard Business Review on remote monitoring potential
(HBR catching up)

What makes telehealth (and telemedicine) work?
(VA points to five factors)

Will the Google phone(s) take the (healthcare app) pie?
(Android lurking on the apps horizon)

European Investment Bank gives Philips EUR 200 million healthcare R&D loan
(And what is Philips going to research?)

New service to support people with epilepsy (UK)
(Low cost 'telehealth' service)

Mobile telecare for mobility scooters (UK)
(Genius or dotty?)

mHealth: The Buzzword of 2009
(Excellent thought-piece)

Yamagata University telehealth devices (Japan)
(And the point is...?)

NHS capital spending to fall
(Will cuts kill telehealth developments?)

Telecare Aware Updated

New posts since Tuesday:

Woman saved from fire
(Good news story)

Cardiff-based Home Telehealth Ltd helps develop Chinese healthcare
(Industry news)

Bosch Telehealth Plus in UK
(New product in the loosest sense of the term)

GSM wander locator
(New product)

AT&T enters 'telehealth', sort of
(Signs of the times)

'The automated mess'- Harvard study on hospital IT
(Will telehealth monitoring make it worse?)

Nano-thin 'algae battery'
(Pointer to the future)

WellAWARE Systems raises US$7.5 million
(Market development)

Telecare, telehealth, mhealth and ehealth news update

Don't miss the exclusive China Telehealth Market Overview amongst these 19 items.

Surf online, be happier and smarter
(Very reassuring!)

iPhone as geriatric care advisor
(New app gives advice)

New telecare player in Canada
(Pushing the cost boundary)

US 'Healthcare reform' cuts home health support
(How will contradictory forces play out?)

UVA 'Health House' groundbreaking
(Second generation smart homes)

Has the smartphone reached the peak of its evolution?
(If so, it's full steam ahead)

Mobile-based Healthcare Models for Emerging Markets
(From the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit)

Telehealth features in Wales's Rural Health Plan
(Wales gets it on)

Tunstall recruiting again
(Owing to 'increase in demand')

Retirement home tenants angry over 'sneaky [telecare upgrade] charges'
(Peverel/Cirrus in media firing line)

Aberdeen's Information for Telecare Assessors
(Lifting the covers)

West Midlands (UK): tender to write Commissioning & Evaluation Tool Kit
(Closing date 18th December)

ISfTeH call for papers for Med-e-Tel
(Closing date 31st December)

Tunstall publishes 'Telehealthcare Times'
(Healthcare positioning continues)

TelaDoc $9m VC funding
(Telehealth, as in 'phone')

Orange Business Services and Sorin 'Best Change Maker'
(Eh?)

Diabetes systems: wireless mobility wins
(Review research overview)

Silvers Summit/Digital Health Summit
(Would you like us to report?)

China Telehealth Market Overview: Exclusive free report
(Exclusive to Telecare Aware...and free!)

Telecare Aware Updated

Posted since Tuesday's alert:

Vodafone wants in on the mobile healthcare action
(Industry development)

£130m for telecare and home help
(Non-announcement?)

Check your phone, turn over, put on your sunscreen
(Small example of text reminders improving 'adherence')

Telemedicine, live from your kitchen
(Doctor consultations by internet)

GE Healthcare acquires Living Independently Group (QuietCare Systems)
(Our take on this announcement)

Telecare Aware on Twitter

Telehealth, telecare, telemedicine, eHealth, mHealth links on Twitter:

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Tunstall and other telecare/telehealth news

Updates since Tuesday:

Tunstall looking for a new CEO?
(James Buckley out?)

November's Telecare LIN eNewsletter published
(Check the stats)

Contact lens: Future platform for mHealth?
(Pointer-to-the-future)

£2million to research NHS Direct expansion
(Could any of us save them a chunk of that?)

HomeTelehealth Ltd new case studies
(Including prison telemedicine )

Verizon readies telehealth collaboration
(Big news in the US market)

Intel Home Health grows
(Not quite such big news in the US market)

Telehealth monitoring updates

Older people would benefit from free telecare (UK)
(Saying what should go without saying)

Aerotel goes wireless
(New products)

Tunstall goes broadband
(New products)

Older people have their say on robots in care
(And guess what they want!)

Intel Home Health pilot with Erickson Retirement
(Who will pay after the pilot?)

FDA and mobile health regulation
(Regulations on medical apps for smartphones in 2010?)

US Army piloting mobile health for wounded veterans
(To roll out to 10,000)

Gartner: mobile health applications #5 by 2012
(More from the prediction business)

Continua Alliance lobbying on healthcare reform (US)
(Continua overstepping its remit?)

Tracking 'get-lost walks'
(US Alzheimer's associations getting into people tracking)

Microsoft Health Tech Today: What do you think of it so far?
(Including a 'MyHalo' session)

TSA 2009: Quotes from attendees
(From the final morning)

Telecare Aware Updated

Posted since Tuesday, plus 15 comments on Dirty tactics in the telecare/telehealth market (UK)
Note: More suggestions for TSA Conference workshop sessions to report welcome.

Elder care by 'remote'- Business Week
(Flashback to 2007)

'Privacy by Design'- Ontario OIPC official response
(Follow up and putting the record straight)

Twitter hashtag for TSA conference #tsa09
(Err...hashtag)

PC for older people introduced in UK
(Perfect or patronising?)

ZyXEL Smart Home Gateway for health monitoring (US)
(New product news)

Manchester (UK) to get m-Health Centre
(Academic development)

Wolverhampton gets on with its telehealth trial (UK)
(Making a start)

Launching at the TSA conference next week
(Three developments)

More eHealth, mHealth, telehealth news

13 new items since Tuesday's alert:

Alcatel-Lucent trial of TeleHealth Manager in NZ
(Following hard on the heels of its US FDA clearance)

IBM Health Analytics Solution Center announced
(This will be big)

One small strip of plaster, one giant strip of data
(Toumaz Technology products)

What's in a (ehealth) name?
(We wish we could tell you, but your site won't let us!)

Where's the humanity?
(In case we get complacent)

The only limit in Connected Health is our imagination…
(So let's exercise it more?)

Clay Shirky keynote speech video
(Never mind "who?", just listen to it)

Philips does deal with Achmea (Netherlands)
(Industry developments)

400 million wireless sensors by 2014
(Market research paper)

Online PHRs, mobile phones, flash drives and retail convergence
(Dizzy with convergence? You will be!)

Canada Report: 'Privacy by Design'
(Ethical issues)

Great Call/Jitterbug buys mobile PERS company
(Takeover news)

Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager cleared for US marketing
(Gearing up to be one of the big players?)

Telecare Aware Updated

Text messaging pilot for high-risk pregnant women expanded
(Textehealth?)

Another take on Connected Health
(Aerial view from Steve Brown)

NY connects health--someday soon
(At what a cost!)

RPM: No patient left behind
(Survey of practitioners)

Helping the old old benefit from the internet
(Refreshingly positive)

5 new technologies that will change everything
(Pointer to the future)

Therapy over the internet for brain injured patients?
(Using the unmodified internet for care purposes)

Sensium Life Pebble from Toumaz Technologies
(New product)

High level meeting on eHealth
(While we get on with it, Ministers plan)

Automated medication dispensers
(Could one have helped?)

Telehealth award for Norfolk PCT and partners
(Congratulations)

mHealth news today

Posted since Friday:

Connected Health Symposium: In the news
(Round up of other post-conference reports)

ZigBee’s Value to Personal Health Care
(The case for Zigbee)

CTIA interviews: AirStrip; BlackBerry; MedApps
(Views on mhealth developments)

(Re)Gaming The System
(Pointer to a near future change of paradigm)

A Weight off my Mind: Telecare for Carers Conference (Scotland)
(Good idea)

Nursing Home, Long-Term Care Trends: Robotic Technology
(Developments in robotics. See comments too)

What's your image of an older person?
(This item may change it!)

Telehealth (ehealth) conference news

Donna's latest update completes her report on the Connected Health Conference, Boston this week. There's a lot to take in, so get your favourite drink first!

Thanks to our conference sponsors who made it possible.

Connected Health Symposium Conference report 1

Report of the first morning now posted
(and for people in the UK, the afternoon's
may be posted by the time you read this)

Thanks to our sponsors:

UK telecare suppliers Tynetec
http://www.tynetec.co.uk/

and

The WhereBusiness, organisers of the first
World Conference on People Tracking
Amsterdam in December 2 - 3.
http://www.thewherebusiness.com/peopletracking

*** Other updates since yesterday's alert ***

Broadcast your heart rate on Twitter?

Is Bluetooth on its way out?

Alzheimer's caregiver chains wandering wife

US Hospitals increasing use of video conferencing

More telehealth news

5 items: Brookings thinktank customer-driven medicine; Emotional networking; HealthVault flu tool; Taiwan telecare seminar; AutoGlucoCheck http://www.telecareaware.com

Telehealth and Telecare News Update

Leeds OTs evaluate use of Just Checking by the Mental Health Intermediate Care Service (UK)
(Evaluation report)

More on medication dispensing
(Follow-up item)

News roundup 7 Oct
(4 items in one... your feedback requested)

Encouragement for telehealth startups via 'levers'?
(Role for US health reform funding?)

Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) to integrate into NHS 24
(Visionary development)

Tower Hamlets increases telecare take-up (UK)
(Learn how)

Innovation. What is it?
(Spot the difference)

Philips goes cordless
(New product news)

New Zealand’s first telehealth pilot begins
(Small beer)

Connected Health: Cheap and easy tools should come before EMRs
(Issues for physicians in small practices in the US)

United Health Group and Cisco initiative for national telehealth system
(Industry news)

Continua and ZigBee announce collaboration on standards
(Industry news)

Telecare Aware Updated

Nothing interesting to read? Here are 13 possibilities posted since Friday:

mHealth in developing countries, Ringful
(Where does all the data go?)

Discussion of low-energy wireless connectivity
(Throwing light on technical issues)

Using Dependability Telecare Assessment to assess telecare equipment
(Another application for the DTA tool)

Tynetec's commitment to growth
(Industry news: new Board members)

Telehealth Ethics
(Article preview)

O2 in Czech Republic looking at telehealth
(Industry news)

Magic carpet to detect falls?
(If you are into fall detection, don't miss this)

Trends in mobile phone technology for health monitoring
(Why mobile is the upcoming technology)

Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect at Home
(Video)

Telemedicine trends, Parts 1 and 2
(Keep your finger on the way the market is moving)

Cross-cultural telemedicine
(Teleconferencing overcoming language and cultural barriers)

Today's news for telecare and telehealth

Telecare Soapbox: Challenge to Service Commissioners
(With suggested 14-point list of features to include)

Sponsorship opportunity
(Help us keep you better informed)

Another type of 'aging in place'
(Can you win the high street market one building at a time?)

Canada's got telehealth
(Of a sort)

Bosch Healthcare garners Frost & Sullivan award
(Observations on Bosch's US strategy)

More on 'aging in place' - Digital doctors thriving on house calls
(Intel- and GE-related)

More Telecare and Telehealth news updates

Finally, a better fall detector? (myHalo Clip)
(First of several better detectors in the pipeline?)

Beyond 'smart homes'-'Home health pavilion' added to EHX 2010
(Moving out of the 'forever tested')

"The patient of the future", engaged (HealthLeaders magazine)
(Technology changing the relationship with doctors)

Telehealth / telecare project dropouts
(WSD insight)

UK Government telecare policy and the Scottish Telecare Development Programme
(Useful roundup)

KidneyTel system: Germany
(New patient monitoring development)

IBM toe-hold project in Italy
(IBM starts small)

Denmark's large scale telehealth project
(For COPD patients)

Burnside desktop wireless phone for older people to get public airing at London Care Show
(Previous story follow up)

Telecare Aware

You can now read Telecare Aware items on your internet-phone. Go to: http://telecareaware.mofuse.mobi/

Business Week-"Aging In Place" special report-Intel, GE, Philips
(Four items in one)

Telehealth being 'levered' by healthcare reform? (US)
(Intel's Eric Dishman's blog)

Telecare support for US veterans to be tested
(Research news)

"Creepy" medication compliance via microchips in pills
(Pointer to the future)

University of Hawaii selects American Telecare for 'connected care'
(He mea waiwai loa)

Stopping Leicester's telehealth project: blame the PCTs
(Update on that bizarre decision)

DH Care Networks September Telecare eNewsletter
(Pointer to some useful info)

Window shopping for telecare
(Amusing item)

Telecare services and false reassurance?
(Brent approves not having pendant to hand when you need it most)

Primary care screening tool helps identify falls-risk patients
(Useful, maybe?)

http://www.telecareaware.com/

Telecare / Telehealth Aware

Telecare Soapbox: Are Partnership Agreements Stifling Innovation?
(Are you stuck in one?)

Remote monitoring helps Henry Ford reduce admissions for heart failure (US)
(Pay attention Leicester!)

'Abusive' 98-year-old evicted (UK)
(Hmm...)

Jaltek Group (UK) and Ericsson (SE) introduce wireless health monitoring
(Industry news)

Telecare as part of cuts packages (Scotland)
(Bad publicity by association?)

Bungling burglars alert telecare call centre
(Pull cord proves useful)

Eric Silfen, CMO Philips Healthcare, sizes the market
(Industry news)

eHealth: Transforming Health and Social Care Services Through Innovations in Technology
(Conference)

http://www.telecareaware.com

Telehealth news updates

Is it a mad, mad world? Read the first item and see!

Leicester NHS's bizarre telehealth decision
(Read it and weep)

Philips Lifeline issues pendants safety notice
(Pendant danger)

Three items on respiratory telehealth
(Adding to the evidence)

Guardian article: Remote control (UK)
(UK insight)

PerVaya looking for distributors
(Industry news)

Researchers design rooms with sensors that help dependent people
(Another 'good idea')

Boeing funds new telehealth company (Canada)
(Industry news)

Report: Mobile Tools Can Improve Chronic Disease Management
(At no cost)

Telecare Aware Updated

Today, some info and and few questions...

Sunderland: a telecare marker and challenge (UK)
(Good Telecare implementation)

Free ehealth masterclass at Imperial College (UK)
(Act quickly)

Smartphone apps point to telecare/telehealth future
(Pointer to the future)

Chubb wins substantial care home contract (UK)
(Industry news)

Remote patient monitoring now means in hospital too
(Extending the definition of remote patients)

Pendant saves life. Commenters bicker (US)
(Good-news story, but...)

Can telehealth really improve patient care? Podcast (Canada)
(Can it?)

Telecare quiz
(For ER fans)

Updates to telehealth and telecare news

Today's offerings will make you laugh and cry. (Mostly the latter.)

Panorama: different views on loss of wardens
(Hot UK topic)

Northern Ireland's shameful anniversary
(Procurement drags on)

Australia to invest $60m in telehealth, emergency response and e-education
(Making a start)

The success of telehealth
(Who's the soul of discretion, then?)

People with dementia getting GPS tracking (UK)
(Cautious trials)

Birmingham's telecare good news story sabotaged (UK)
(Words 'foot' and 'shoot' come to mind)

Now Scotland's got...neck alarms
(Oh dear...)

Telecare Aware Updated

August's Telecare Aware is sponsored by Docobo
http://www.telecareaware.com/rd/docobo.html (link to Docobo)

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Which of these will kick off your week?

A visit to Philips Lifeline (US)
(Interesting stats)

DH Care Networks Telecare Newsletter
(Roundups)

Searching for health reform in all the wrong places (US)
(US healthcare reform opinion from Intel)

Videoconferencing not the way to Amarillo
(Lessons learned)

Honeywell HomMed telehealth webinar invitation
(You are invited)

Telecare bibliography
(Useful list)

Telecare & Telehealth

New 'smart' medication dispensing device
(New product)

Telehealth social networking site
(New site)

Nurses help invent high-tech gadgets
(New involvement)

Emergency medical device franchise launches eMed-Alert
(New business opportunity?)

Home health monitoring on the "slope of enlightenment"
(New endorsement)

The Changing Climate of Care - Telehealth's Role
(New conference, Canada)

Telecare Aware: Telecare and Telehealth News

Telecare and Telehealth update

If you are looking for a telehealth strategy, read 'Hull's Telehealth Institute'

New Continua Certified A&D devices announced
(Industry news)

Telecare in action: example
(Telecare with a person with a stroke)

Hull's Telehealth Institute (UK)
(Where is it?)

Take two digital pills and call me in the morning
(Pointers to the future)

Overcoming the challenges to eHealth
(Conference reports)

SPARC workshops (UK)
(Conference news)

2009 Connected Health Symposium (US)
(Conference news)

Telecare and Telehealth update

Tunstall predicts redundancies
(Industry news)

Telecare Soapbox: Can the 'old old' have best lives when the pressure is to isolate them?
(Opinion)

"Like a duck on a junebug"
(Someone 'gets it')

Edinburgh to double spending on telecare
(So why isn't everyone else?)

The role of telehealth in medical tourism
(Another angle)

Two-cities test for 'intimacy' device
(Pointer to the future?)

Multicenter trial of heart failure remote monitoring reaches 1,650 patients
(Progress report)

telehealth news

Update to Telecare Aware

A reader has asked for a recommendation of a good patent lawyer...
If you know one, let me know and I will start a list on Telecare Aware.

Columba/Vega bracelets' marketing to be revitalised
(You read it here first)

Is slow telecare adoption a 'penguin problem'?
(Interesting concept)

Realtime monitoring of vital signs in remote patients
(New product news)

Project Lifesaver often lives up to its name
(But could be put to more use)

Wales' first domestic violence telecare line for Anglesey
(Missed opportunity?)

Medicare Telehealth Enhancement Act 2009
(Summary)

Tunstall branding success
(Again)

DLF telecare training September, London
(Places still available)

Telecare Aware Updated

Don't forget, in the excitement of today's posts, to remind any community nurses you know to sign up at Community Nurses Network while the membership offer still applies.

Telecare Soapbox: Honeywell HomMed's response to 'Responsibility of the market leader'
(Soapbox response)

Otellini: We need a personal health reformation
(Intel's boss speaks out)

Verizon Wireless, Qualcomm form joint venture
(Qualcomm not giving up on health sector)

Home Sleep Apnea Testing Service
(Telehealth development)

Getting care, including specialty care, locally in Tennessee
(Terrible press release)

Can and should a private market for telecare and telehealth be stimulated?
(By consultant cardiologist)

WSDAN most recent newsletter
(Updates)

Telecare Aware Updated

Just added 6 items: First true mass telehealth?; Chubb; 'Old Old'; 9 telemedicine apps; more on Cisco

Telecare Aware Updated

10 items posted inc: VA suspends projects; London Telecare; Smart-ICE; Bluetooth competition; Cisco; Proton; Pharos evidence http://www.telecareaware.com

Telecare Aware Updated

Just posted 6 items: Intel goes POTS; Telecare eNewsletter; Telemed x 3; HealthInvestor conference offer; Lattitude CE marking: http://www.telecareaware.com/

Telecare Aware Updated

Just posted 7 items: Responsibility of the market leader; Vena video; Orange España; Port Talbot telecare; AMAC

Telecare Aware Updated

6 items published: Scotland's got pendants; conferences; RRAC telecare Catalunya; RFID buttons: http://www.telecareaware.com/

Telecare Aware Updated

Posted 5 items inc: China market implications; Red Alert award; DH database; WellAWARE; GPS bracelet failure http://www.telecareaware.com/

Telecare Aware Updated

7 items posted Friday 3 July inc: Vodafone signal booster; eHealth in Philippines and Pakistan; McElwaine Smart in Ireland: http://bit.ly/15I3b0