Telemedicine; mHealth; GE Healthcare; Senate eCare hearing

Kevin Doughty at IALC (Video)
(You've read his contributions, now see him in action)

Senate hearings, 'eCare' and national broadband
(Comprehensive roundup, including video links
UPDATED if you read it before this morning)

Florida medical school pilots remote blood pressure monitoring with IDEAL LIFE
(Telehealth 'getting out there')

What makes for a successful remote patient monitoring program?
(Add your suggestions)

GE Healthcare invests $3 million in Ireland's TRIL Centre for aging design research
(GE uses some of that $250 million)

RAatE 2010
(UK Conference notice)

'Meaningful use'--by patients? (US)
(Physician performance will depend on what patients do)

mHealth: the developing world really needs it - a Telecare Aware special report
(Telemedicine by mobile phone in Nepal)

Lifestyle Monitoring; ESNC; fall detector; mHealth; MIT's Sana

Lifestyle Monitoring - Tomorrow's World? (Scotland)
(Jargon-free article)

European Satellite Navigation Competition
(Open to anyone)

Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (CTeL)
(For the brown bag seminars)

University of Maryland mobile technology symposium
(Report)

EMR implementation: the law of unintended consequences
(Physician view of using EMRs)

Terminology: The discussion that will not die!
(Stakepost, anyone?)

University students invent wrist-worn fall detector (US)
('A' for effort)

How long can 'innovative' be 'innovative'?
(Terminology or sloppy thinking issue?)

Can mHealth save the NHS money?
(Well, can it?)

MIT's Sana: open-source platforms key to mHealth in developing countries
(The key part of this being 'open source')

Cisco; smartphones; remote monitoring; pendant alarms; Continua; Proteus Biomedical; volcanic ash

Telemedicine as Cisco Systems' seat at eHealth table
(We find the nugget in the puffery)

Smartphone growth heralding mHealth growth?
(Handheld computing power to open healthcare doors?)

Moving from long-term care to home--where is the remote monitoring?
(A missed opportunity that you, dear reader, can put right. See comment)

Forecasts, forecasts...where do they end for mHealth?
(Links to a comparison of the forecasts)

Pendant alarms: users don't use them (UK report)
(Item extended since posting yesterday)

Continua's certified products list
('Certified' as in 'approved', not 'insane')

Hospital: "the most boring place on Earth"
(Best argument for telehealth)

Proteus Biomedical gains FDA approval for telehealth monitor
(Industry news)

Cardiologist beats volcanic ash flights ban with telehealth monitoring
(Another good argument for telehealth)

FDA and HIT; Army Telecare; MediPendant; Tunstall

MIT's Sana mobile health platform wins $150,000 prizes
(EMR-related)

Nowhere to hide when FDA and HIT collide
(Another must-read for suppliers in the US market)

AllOne Mobile zeroed out?
(The difficulty of finding success)

GE Global Research, US Army telecare study
(Boost for QuietCare?)

Mystery du jour: Pfizer, Acacia Living and their 'holistic technology solution'
(Nothing like a good mystery...)

LogicMark and Medical Alarms Concepts reach agreement
(Court case closed)

IBM Global Entrepreneur Initiative
(Help for small, relatively new companies)

iPhones could keep elderly and disabled out of hospital (Nottingham, UK)
(Flexible approach)

A Weight off my Mind: telecare for carers
(Free report)

E-ffective healthcare
(OECD telehealth article)

Tunstall pre-empts result of BS tender process (UK)
(Will Buying Solutions take action?)

PTG; Health 2.0; telehealth hub; mobile health; broadband for healthcare

PTG: Funding hasn't gone away (UK)
(Contrary to popular belief)

Ill wind blows in great report
(Long read 1: Health 2.0 conference, Paris)

Highlands and Islands to discuss telecare development
(Scotland presses ahead)

Yorks and Humber plans telehealth hub (UK)
(Visionary development)

Five free mobile health reports
(Long read 2)

Tunstall's new icp: 73 out of 100
(What does it mean?)

Robots in care: roundup
(Long read 3 - contains 24 links)

iPad for patient education at Florida Hospital for Children
(In the Walt Disney Pavilion)

Ready, set....more projections (mHealth this go)
(Another week, another set of projections)

Into the fog: FDA and smartphone apps regulation
(Beware those red lights)

Can EMRs cure healthcare? (Wall Street Journal musings)
(Great in theory, problematic in practice)

Diabetes tracking Nintendo style: Bayer rolls out Didget in US
(Following its success(?) in the UK)

HP's major computing breakthrough
(Pointer to the future)

Roundup of FCC rural broadband for healthcare
(Where did the $145 million funding go?)

Telehealth retraining for IT workers in New Hampshire and Vermont proposed
(Creating some new jobs)

Surgical live telehealth monitoring
(Real-time 'second set of eyes')

Business Week catches up with mHealth
(Highlights some European developments)

Independent living; Telecare; iGoogle; mHealth devices

Report: ICT enabled independent living for elderly (EU)
(Free, long report)

FineThanx telephone check-in service (US)
(Check-in the comments, too)

Connectyx MedFlash, Consult A Doctor joint venture
(Rant warning)

Cardio doc in poc (when you need one?)
(It's also a fully featured smartphone)

Poplar HARCA's Alertacall publicity (UK)
(Example of good publicity)

Get notification of Telecare Aware items in iGoogle
(An iGoogle gadget at last!)

Report: The Future of Health Care Is Social
(Free, short report)

Cross-sector collaboration key to home-based healthcare
(And a breach in one of the major barriers?)

When your carpet calls your doctor
(Item for general readers)

Cornwall to continue using telehealth after the WSD finishes
(Anticipating the WSD results)

Seven pages of telecare videos
(From wonderful to woeful)

Are connected health firms chasing the wrong markets?
(LinkedIn discussion)

Meridian Health (NJ), Best Buy test mHealth device sales
(Testing consumers' comfort level)

Telecare campaign; nHealth in Europe; Telemedicine videoconferencing

Self-monitoring medicine capsule
(Pointer to the future)

Tandberg Clinical Presence System announced
(New product for hospitals)

Usability course, workshop and networking luncheon (Washington DC)
(Improve your website if you can)

Yorkshire Post campaigns for telecare (UK)
(Election move)

Beyond EMRs to sustainable business models
(Time to move on)

Carriers pushing mHealth in Spain, France
(Useful roundup)

Eight reasons why current telemedicine videoconferencing technology isn't good enough
(Telecare Soapbox and new product news)

Report: A strong case for telehealth in Europe
(Market report)

An EMR/digital medical assistant for $140?
(Proof that you get what you pay for)

National Care Service, Google Maps and the FCC

March's Telecare LIN eNewsletter published
(Check out the Google Maps)

UK White Paper: Building the National Care Service
(Grand design - now on hold)

Can broadband save healthcare? The FCC thinks so! (US)
(Doubting Thomasina picks apart the plan)

AirStrip OB, interactive TV and telemedicine networks in central Texas
(Healthcare evolution with technology)

Moca Lab wins MIT Davis Peace Fellowship
(Extending specialist care to remote areas)

CST merges with COACH
(Developments in Canada)

eHealth, telecare, telehealth news

Broadcast the state of your underpants
(And no leg pulling...)

BeClose announces in-home telecare system (US)
(DIY telecare without a monitoring center)

Medical Alarm Concepts pushes ahead with distribution deal
(Despite the lawsuit)

Technology for the evolving world of consumer health
(Good intro for someone who needs an overview)

Flood at BT exchange puts thousands of telecare users at risk over Easter (UK)
(UK news)

Kvedar: keep it simple in connected health
(LCD and POTS time)

mHealth and simple apps saving lives in Africa
(Nothing whiz-bang but inventive and simple)

iPhone medical image viewers--devices or not?
(Issues of FDA approval)

'Remote health management' limited by reimbursement
(Light at the end of the tunnel?)

TSA advertising for new chief executive
(Top telecare job)

CTIA healthcare E-Tech Awards to MedApps, Telcare, Philips; Cleveland Clinic telehealth test
(Awards round-up, plus)