Buying Solutions; Airlie Silver Surfers; Healthcare and medical technology; Sana telemedicine

Buying Solutions' resounding silence (UK)
(Readers with BS contacts please note)

Praise for Airlie Silver Surfers' telehealth role (Scotland)
(Empowered users here and now)

Healthcare and medical technology trade mission to India (UK)
(Urgent if interested in doing business there)

iTriage app guides you to healthcare
(Houston, we have an emergency...)

Indian company uses iPad to screen for birth defects
(Helping experts monitor pregnancies)

MIT's students continue development of Sana telemedicine
(Working in India and the Philippines)

Telemedicine's shaky start in South Africa
(But at least it's a start)

Google Health; Med-e-Tel; Telemedicine; Robotics; Killer health apps

Orange promises NHS savings
(From mobile messaging)

Google Health revived
(Not a zombie after all!)

The Future of Patients
(Clever video)

Med-e-Tel 2011 Preview
(Conference news)

Funding for telemedicine projects in rural Wales
(Good news for Wales)

Robotics and stroke #2
(Or 'sroke', even)

Broadband access Federal grants (US)
(US 'stimulus' funding non-stop BTOP)

'Killer app' mHealth + EHRs--Deloitte
(Don't you love killer health apps?)

Your robot news for the weekend
(Two videos)

ECCH Northern Ireland; Motorola; Home care; eHealth; Dell Streak tablet; Ofcom

Q: What's the difference between an African Elephant and ECCH?
(Northern Ireland's fiasco -again)

Digital Wellbeing Conference (UK)
(Update - next week reminder)

Now a $2,000 'EDA' for hospitals from Motorola
(Pricey entry into the hospital data race)

Technologies key in preventing unplanned hospital readmissions: report
(More for the evidence-base)

Home care: reasons why *not* to adopt telehealth (US)
(Refreshingly frank - and disappointing)

PwC study finds physicians going mobile
(Some reasons to be cheerful...)

Top eHealth for older adults picked
(List of 'nana' technologies)

Neurotechnology to stimulate brain function
(Complements the 'to words to speech' item last week)

Tablet Wars Round #3: Dell positioning Streak tablet for healthcare
(Android tablet already in 350 US hospitals)

Zargis remote stethoscopes testing in Ontario (Canada)
(Zargis continues its roll)

DH personal health budgets Learning Network: new site (UK)
(Update)

Ofcom report: Next Generation Services for Older and Disabled People
(Find out if it's worth reading)

CUHTec T-cycle; Airedale NHS; RoboSoft; Simpla Phone; NHS Direct

CUHTec T-cycle Service (UK)
('cycle' as in 'recycle', not 'bicycle')

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and the BSFA
(Press release goes some way to explaining why)

"Aloha, robot, mon chéri!"
(More for the robots in care file)

A patient wish list
(Does it match your wish list?)

Thoughts to speech
(Pointer to far future)

Simpla Phone: New UK product
(Does it meet the T&M test? See comment)

Mobile phones no silver bullet for Africa
(One from the University of the Bleedin' Obvious?)

US Northwest Region Telestroke Survey results
(Hopeful signs of development)

Three forthcoming sponsorship opportunities
(Telecare/telehealth suppliers please note!)

"We have not announced the closure of NHS Direct" — Lansley
(Lansley takes a robust line)

NHS Direct; Free telecare trials; Intel buys Infineon; eHealth

NHS Direct denies demise (UK)
(But doesn't answer the questions about the BSFA)

Invicta first to achieve European Standard in alarm monitoring (UK)
(Congrats)

Gateshead Council offers free telecare trials (UK)
(So it looks like its neighbours' offer was successful)

Intel buys Infineon Wireless Radio Chip Unit
(mHealth implications?)

The realities of telecare
(In Stockton on Tees, UK)

Japan's centenarians falling through the cracks
(And not a robot in sight)

eHealth solved: you just need the right multiplier
(Bullish eHealth predictions explained)

Everything you wanted to know about telehealth...
(UK Toolkit: Reader reviews welcome)

Another success for Tunstall
("A small step for man")

Now text messaging for...emergency room wait times
(The healthcare marketing trend for 2010??)

NHS Direct; Smartphone-based remote monitoring for epilepsy; AirStrip

NHS Direct to be 'scrapped' within lifetime of BSFA
(Surprise announcement)

Smartphone-based remote monitoring for epilepsy
(Development in a difficult area for monitoring)

Mobile Health Expo--session information
(Conference info)

AirStrip OB enters home health with Alere Health
(For monitoring pregnant women)