26 February 2010

eHealth Telehealth Telecare investment needed

Please read the investment fund item if nothing else from the 11 posted since Tuesday!

Seminar report: Telehealth, telecare and new technologies in UK healthcare
(How not to organise an event)

Council and PCT collaborate on telecare deal
(Common sense approach from West Sussex)

The coming technology innovation drought
(But Intel and others doing something about it)

mHealth: sorting the hype from the here-and-now
(Biting blog item)

Bosch Health Buddy deployed at Montefiore Medical Center
(Large-scale trial)

FDA considers regulation of 'safety risks' of health IT
(EMR issues explored by HuffPo)

Generating device power from body movements
(Pointer to the future)

DH consults on COPD strategy (UK)
(What role is it proposing for telehealth?)

Time for a telecare/telehealth investment fund?
(Would YOU invest?)

Interview with AirStrip Technologies' president
(FDA approval is tough)

Six differences between eHealth and mHealth
(The debate goes on)

23 February 2010

Continua Alliance news on Telecare Aware

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8 selected items since Friday's alert:

Veterans Administration (US) and telehealth
(The problems of scale)

Mayo Clinic, Intel, GE test post-acute monitoring
(Intel Health Guide study)

The sensitive home
(Moving out of the lab)

Sleepless sensors
(Monitoring from the machine-to-machine (M2M) perspective)

German Federal Minister of Health to open TeleHealth at CeBIT 2010
(Conference news)

TalkTalk: free weekly chats for older people living alone (UK)
(Scratching a social responsibility itch)

Councils 'will struggle with ageing population' says Audit Commission (UK)
(A thumbs up for telecare)

SmartPersonalHealth Project (EU)
(Continua Alliance spreads its reach)

19 February 2010

Telecare, Telehealth, mHealth, eHealth, telemedicine news

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Nine new items since Tuesday's alert, and there are more waiting in the wings to be posted over the weekend.

Grey hair, big business
(BBC radio programme)

Hot debate on consumer ultrasound devices
(Are they dangerous?)

Barcelona: growing the mHealth 'ecosystem'
(Discussion from Barcelona)

Healthcare highlights @ Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
(Conference roundup)

WebMD upgrades Medscape Mobile
(With new multimedia clinical reference material)

For laptop owner readers...
(This may be helpful)

II International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living
(Conference news)

McRoberts DynaPort Hybrid (Netherlands)
(Forgotten about your falls? Waist-worn device will reveal the truth)

Age Concern and Help The Aged selling Aid Call (UK)
(The backstory...yawn)

9 February 2010

Diagnostic sensors for telehealth and telemedicine

19 items posted since Friday's alerts email:

Haiti and telemedicine
(Latest developments)

Norwegian diabetes mHealth application
(Self monitoring system)

A diagnostic sensor for orthopedic post-surgery
(New product smart skin patch)

Telemedicine at work
('Work' as in 'workplace')

'Tattletale pills and bottles'
(Useful roundup from CNN)

Avoiding FDA mHealth regulation--not easy
(Must-read if confused on US compliance matters)

Epocrates differs with iPad naysayers
(But then they would, wouldn't they?)

Turn any surface into a multi-touch display
(Fascinating pointer to the future)

Is the medical device market recession-proof?
(Five views)

Hampshire's virtual ward (UK)
(Another step in the right direction)

Healthcare wants a tablet, but not Apple’s iPad: survey
("What healthcare wants, the iPad doesn't have")

Telehealthcare brand spotting
(New game: brand spotting...)

Tunstall's press release blog
(All the press releases you need)

Telemedicine's captive audiences
(Guess where they are?)

Breakthrough in online psychotherapy?
(Connecting people with professionals online)

'Opening the black box'
(First find your black box...)

Medical image study: handheld screens as good as standard PC monitors
(A positive for mobile radiology)

First-ever handheld ultrasound units at Winter Olympics
(To be supplied by GE from a Mobile Medical Unit)

Collecting patient information in Haiti via iPhones
(creating patient medical records on iPhones)

5 February 2010

Dementia technologies video COGKNOW project

Mobile software partner sought for European dementia technologies
(Don't miss the video)

NHS 'could save £15bn' treating more patients at home
(Growing telehealth awareness)

Who should write about mHealth?
(Not the American Telemedicine Association?)

PhD Studentship in: Telecare Systems Application and ICT Infrastructure (UK)
(Opportunity)

Newcastle (UK) 6 months' free telecare for people over 85
(To increase the uptake)

What will really drive 'unstoppable' mHealth?
(coverage of the mHealth Initiative conference)

Pediatric ICU telemedicine at MassGeneral
(Improving the home life of pediatricians?)

Ideal Life reports 50% reduction in hospital readmissions in test program
(Impressive results)

Text4Baby debuts
(New service in US with rapid uptake)

US FY2011 Federal budget - healthcare tech spending
(The healthcare related nuggets)

Ageism and access to technology
(Think piece by Simon Roberts, Intel)

Dementia: bad news; good news; ignored news
(Dementia is a hot topic in the UK at the moment)

Wearable Health Monitoring Sensors (Japan)
(The human recorder system)

Five companies donating telehealth equipment for Haitian relief
(And an opportunity to re-imagine Haiti)

2 February 2010

Gadgets changing the world

The language of telecare
('Rant' - and a comment already)

The future of sensing devices
(Pointer to the future)

How your favourite gadget is changing the world
(Telehealth, etc. in India)

Siemens licences Microsoft HealthVault (Germany)
(Significant development)

New product idea
(Free from Telecare Aware)

Unilever's Imperative Health
(Significant development?)

Breath-based diagnosis and monitoring
(Pointer to the near future)