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Telecare Soapbox: Twisted tender tendrils (UK)
(Alliteration aside, it's a lot'a read)

Connected Health Symposium 2011: reviews and recaps
(News round up)

Assessing PTSD via virtual reality
(Armed With Science item)

Robotic assisted exoskeleton update
(For people with spinal cord injuries)

Telehealth, telemedicine and telecare: Introductory one-day seminar (UK)
(Conference alert)

Shoes with embedded GPS to go on sale in US
(And a mini rant about 'wandering')

AskTARA; Universal EHR or PHR; Intel Healthcare Innovation Summit; Tunstall Response; Xbox Kinect

AskTARA for national (UK) launch
(To help people select products and services)

Why a universal EHR or PHR is so difficult
(You could fall at the very first hurdle)

Invitation to Intel Healthcare Innovation Summit webinars
(Online event)

Tunstall Response meets TSA standard (UK)
(Did you know they previously didn't?)

Older people on the thin line between protest and disorder in Britain?
(Sign of the times?)

Xbox Kinect shows falls detection promise
(As Donna predicted over a year ago)

EarlySense; Health New England; epidermal electronics; St Vincent de Paul; Telehealth

EarlySense hospital bed sensors piloting in Massachusetts
(New product news)

iPads are welcome distraction during surgery (UK)
(Choose your entertainment along with your surgeon)

Health New England adds member app
(For faster access)

Once again into the (data) breach: 'September Song' edition
(225,000 people affected in recent months)

Revised Lifecomm MPERS white paper
(Thanks to TA readers)

EHTEL - Intel Workshop: eHealth 2020 – What Synergies for Europe?
(Seminar news)

NYT catches up on 'epidermal electronics'
(Pointer to the future)

6pm Group to invest €5 million in FYR Macedonia 'Tele Care and Tele Health'
(Interesting market choice)

St Vincent de Paul study shows benefits of telecare to older people
(For the 'evidence file')

App-based remote room monitoring system for iPad and iPhone
(New product - not quite telecare yet)

Telehealth in the NHS (article)
(Overview)

Doro; Socialism; MedCottage; Continua Health Alliance; Kyocera; AFrame Digital

Doro buys tiny French telecare company for €1.29 million
(!!!!)

Socialism: Relax, it could be coming to your living room (US)
(Should rattle a few cages)

Pop-up 'MedCottage' enables care at home (US)
(New product news)

Continua Health Alliance Releases 2011 Design Guidelines
(Industry news)

Invicta Telecare's 25 years - and some statistics (UK)
(Industry news)

Could you be a (non-Bosch) Health HERO?
(Dead easy competition)

Mi-Look: Kyocera's multifunction device (Japan)
(New product news)

AFrame Digital gains second round of NIH research funding
(Research news)

Telecare Soapbox: Telehealth for the intellectually disabled
('People with Learning Disabilities' for UK readers)

Android malware; Choose Independence; Transition Care Program; Philips Lifeline AutoAlert; In-home health monitoring; Vidyo; Tunstall myclinic@home

Beware hospital CIOs, of Android malware explosion
(Adding to the ongoing debate of iPad vs. Android)

Rural healthcare lagging without telemedicine (US)
(Confirming the obvious)

Choose Independence to develop telehealth part of TSA Code of Practice (UK)
(A 'brave' decision?)

Did the riots affect telecare service usage? (UK)
(A question for services)

The effect of telehealth and telecare on clients of the Transition Care Program (Australia)
(Study)

Telecare Soapbox: Philips Lifeline AutoAlert - where's the evidence?
(Publish or be damned!)

Competency framework published for eHealth clinicians (UK)
(Start made)

Expansion of in-home health monitoring systems (US & UK)
(Good news stories)

Vidyo's large deal with Ontario Telemedicine Network
(The chimp challenges the gorillas)

Pharmaceutical m-Health
(Conference news)

Hacking the insulin pump, and beyond
(No one will bother - will they?)

Innovating for today's older adult
(To kickstart your thinking)

'Silicon Valley know-it-alls' discussion continues
(Reading for [last] weekend)

Wrist-worn device may detect cardiac arrest
(Pointer to the future)

Tunstall myclinic@home kit launched in Australia
(Industry news)

Health Net Connect; BRAID; NHS Bristol; FDA draft guidance; Cisco layoffs; iRobot and InTouch; mHealth acquisitions

Health Net Connect launches VideoDoc service
(Is it significant?)

New telehealth service in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
(New telehealth roll-out)

BRAID Project: Active Ageing Scenarios (EU)
(May be useful)

NHS Bristol uses phones for telehealth (UK)
(New telehealth roll-out)

Recognized Continua Certification Experts
(May be useful. Or become one)

Two useful smartphone healthcare apps, and free report
(From TANN: Canada and research2guidance)

Analysis of FDA draft guidance on mobile medical apps
(Must-read 1)

Neil Versel's take on 'Silicon Valley know-it-alls'
(Must-read 2)

Cisco layoffs affecting their telehealth initiatives?
(Readers' info requested)

Your weekend robot fix: iRobot and InTouch Health go 'joint'
(Can they complement each other?)

2011 mHealth acquisitions thick and fast
(Handy list)

Boston Connected Health Symposium networking event
(Event news)

Telecare; SimplicITy; Australian telehealth; Jitterbug; VRI and MedApps; Quantified Self

Telecare for Ohioans living alone (US)
(Check out the cost!)

GPs back expanded role for telemedicine/telehealth/telecare (UK)
(Terminology confusion)

Control your home with thought alone
(Pointer to the future)

SimplicITy computer interface for older users - Mark II (UK)
(Helping older people get online)

Australian telehealth scheme 'not good enough'
(Only doctors and nurses can play)

mHealth Summit presentations deadline Friday 8 July
(TODAY!)

Jitterbug markets an iPhone app (US)
(And how does Fisher Price come into it?)

VRI expanding telehealth capabilities with MedApps
(To use 3,000 MedApps HealthPAL units)

txt2stop: smoking cessation programme (UK)
(Evidence for the effective use of SMS telecoaching)

The downside(s) of the Quantified Self
(The what?)

Bosch telehealth; PatientPad; Google Health; Sproxil

Alaska rural telehealth awarded, Bosch into 'smackdown'
(That's 'smackdown', NOT 'meltdown'!)

PatientPad check-in tablet secures $7.5 million funding round
(Industry news)

Apply ECG to your iPad/iPhone
(Product development)

The demise of Google Health
(As widely predicted, it's now official)

Is culture the barrier to mobile working? (UK)
(Clinician-bashing on the agenda again)

Which robotic accent would you like to be hugged in?
(The weird and the obvious)

Sproxil drug verification to India
(Market development)

Telehealth news roundup for Saturday 25 June
(Four items in one)

Telecare; Tunstall telehealth; New Zealand Telehealth Forum; Telecare Services Association; Telefónica e-health

Mobile Health Expo East reminder
(A deadline and a discount)

Blue Highway gets closer to WellAWARE
(Industry news)

Friday's forecast and research picks
(More ways to spend your company's money)

The UK's two approaches to telecare
(North / south divide?)

Honeywell Telehealth User Group Workshop invitation (UK)
(London, next week, if you can make it)

Tunstall's telehealth program at NHS Gloucestershire
(Another large scale, non-competitive purchase?)

New Zealand Telehealth Forum established
(Welcome)

More from recent South African mHealth Summit
(Africa - where necessity is truly the mother...)

Singapore tests mHealth device for heart disease
(Getting results quickly)

Telecare Services Association - members' concerns (UK)
(Setting the standards?)

Pharma goes digital for trials, detailing
(Telehealth recruited)

mHealth Summit: call for presentations
(Conference news)

DALLAS - A thorough commissioning process to take less than a year (UK)
(Sidestepping EU tendering processes?)

Will watches make a comeback?
(Pointer to the future)

Where's Spain's Telefónica e-health division heading? José Perdomo tells all
(Big player strategy)

Avery Dennison & Proteus Biomedical; Care Innovations Health Guide; EHR at the VA; iPhone ECG; Alere Masterclass

Avery Dennison Medical Solutions and Proteus Biomedical new
partnership (US)
(Company news)

Telehealth Defined, Explained and Explored
(F&S wades in)

TANN round-up week ending 11 June 2011
(A quick eye over the local sites)

Care Innovations Health Guide Windows 7 puzzle announcement
(Well, it puzzles your editor)

8 of 10 countries using mHealth, but...
(WHO report)

Pen, paper...EHR at the VA: study
(How clinicians fill the gaps)

Using video chat to stay connected with older relatives
(Skype still too complex?)

Dr D Albert and accidental viral marketing of the iPhone ECG
(Proving that the best viral is accidental viral)

Seminar report: Alere Masterclass 7 June 2011
(Was it a masterclass or a pitchfest?)

Telecare Aware News Network updates; Taiwan telehealth; SmartCamp; ICU Telemedicine

Telecare Aware News Network updates
(Follow your country)

Taiwan gets on with telehealth
(Development reminder)

Home care needs a makeover (US)
(Like 1990s PCs but worse)

SmartCamp goes to Austin, awards healthcare technology
(IBM's entrepreneurial awards program)

Your Friday 'battle of the market projections'
(Soap bubbles in a breeze?)

The Use and Misuse of ICU Telemedicine
(Contrasting two studies)

Robosoft Kompaï; Car as mHealth; Lifecomm MPERS; Waldo Health and ECG; Technologies for Health; Qualcomm; GPS tracking

Robosoft's Kompaï care robot...the future of telecare?
(Steve's special report)

Your car as mHealth platform
(Could be controversial)

Silvers Summit 2012 @ CES--call for speakers
(Conference news)

Lifecomm MPERS appoints president
(Industry news plus product info)

ATA followup: Waldo Health and ECG tracking
(Product news)

Technologies for Health: $50 million five-year grant
(Closing date is 6 June)

Qualcomm keynoting at mHealth Summit
(Conference news)

NHS EHR "The largest civilian IT project in the world has failed."
(Taxpayers' money down the drain news)

GPS tracking with autistic children (US)
(Video report)

Telecare EPG; Telemedical ECG service; Physicians video consult;Benefits of Telecare; Flexible paperphone; FutureMed2011; ChairBot; Skype

'Computerless email' to debut at Ecumen senior housing (US)
(Presto making market progress - embargoed, will appear later)

Wales invests in subscription to Telecare EPG
(Thumbs up to WAG and the EPG)

EHRs and semantic interoperability (EU)
(Interoperability constructing a new Tower of Babel?)

'Tapping into smart health' (Boston Globe)
(mHealth roundup)

Telemedical ECG service has improved patient cardiac care
while reducing its cost (UK)
(Written by a GP!)

Need the ER? Make a reservation. (US)
(Now we just need to be able to book our next accident)

7% of US physicians video consult with patients...
(But there are barriers to greater usage)

Supporting Unpaid Carers: The Benefits of Telecare (Scotland)
(Free report)

Flexible 'paperphone' created
(Pointer to the future)

Isansys Lifecare launches small body-worn heart monitor
(New product)

In 2002 there were 49 million cellphones in Africa...and now?
(Video and pointer to the future)

New pressure sensor can stretch to twice its size
(Pointer to the future)

I Award winners at WLSA Investors Forum
(No, not as in 'Your editor awards...')

'Star Trek' in reality: the Tricorder X PRIZE
(Health... the Final Frontier)

FutureMed2011: Days 3, 4, 5
(Conference news)

Weekend reading: FutureMed 2011
('Exponential change' for short)

Your Friday robot 'fix'; ChairBot
(Innovation)

No, no, no! to virtual consults in South Africa
(Backward stepping)

Friday corporate news
(Industry updates)

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Tracking, social networking rising for health information
Skype a bad buy for Microsoft?
Lights, theatre...Android@Home

Continua Alliance; Connected health; Skype; Android@Home; Whzan; Jitterbug 5star PERS; WSDAN Conference

Continua Alliance releases design guidelines to public
(But confusion reigns)

Connected health and 'crossing the digital divide'
(Good sms news)

Tracking, social networking rising for health information
(Facebook as a source of health info???)

'Aging in the Connected Home' research
(Waking up to the need to research needs before tech)

Skype a bad buy for Microsoft?
(ZDNet two page item and lots of comments)

Lights, theatre...Android@Home
(Google unveils a home controls framework...get developing)

Webinar: Mobile Communications for Medical Care (China)
(Presenting recent research results)

Whzan gets into telecare and telehealth (UK)
(New entrant to UK market)

Jitterbug launches 5star PERS (US)
(Will customers with home-based PERS switch?)

WSDAN Conference - Mainstreaming Telehealth and Telecare (UK)
(Free event news)

Telecare and Telehealth Marketplace; Mobile Health 2011; SleepTrak; mHealth Regulatory Coalition; Older People

Tuesday's short takes
(Round up of various items)

South of England Telecare and Telehealth Marketplace
(UK event news)

Mobile Health 2011 - roundup
(Conference report)

SleepTrak monitoring sleep disorders (US)
(New product)

Got funding? Capital Connection '11 (US)
(Too late to apply, but...)

mHealth Regulatory Coalition draft document posted
(Important in relation to FDA)

Festival of ICT and Older People (UK conference pre-event)
(Conference news)

ATA 2011; BIOTRONIK; iMetrikus/Numera; Text4Baby; Alzheimer's telecare project; Microsoft tags for mHealth

ATA 2011: conference reporting **Final 6 May**
(To bring you right up to date, incl. Intel news)

New Zealand technologies facilitate care of elderly and chronically ill at home
(Round-up)

Wireless remote monitoring pacemakers: FDA approval of BIOTRONIK's latest devices (US)
(Industry news)

OK to Taser man having epileptic fit (UK)
(Twice. And to stand on his legs)

iMetrikus changes name to Numera (US/UK)
(Industry news)

TSA job offer (UK)
(Phone Trevor)

Survey: Text messaging preferred for health alerts (US)
(More interesting than it sounds)

Text4Baby goes to Russia
(International news)

Alzheimer's telecare project interim evaluation results (video)
(Old-ish but video just released)

Demise of Intel's Health Guide
(Yes - read it here first)

Microsoft tags for mHealth?
(Smartphone and app needed to read this one)

EU support for market breakthrough
(AALOA and AALA news)

ATA 2011 Conference Reports

Although we couldn't get sponsorship for Editor Donna to report live from the ATA 2011 conference, she is doing a stalwart job of picking up and pulling together the snippets other people are putting online - 16 so far, and there are more to come.

William and Kate; Tunstall; AT&T; Homo evolutis; Continua; Waldo Health; Verizon and Healthsense

Wills and Kate telecare shocker!
(You thought we'd be a Royal Wedding-free zone? Sorry!)

Tunstall CEO backs Lansley's NHS plans
(Unlike the vast majority, including health professionals)

AT&T unveils suitcase-sized cell sites for emergencies
(New product)

Meet the Buyers 2011 (UK)
(Event news)

Body boundaries and the rise of Homo evolutis
(Pointer to the future)

Smart Personal Health project final report (EU)
(Quaintly circular Continua item)

ATA: remove Medicare telemedicine/telehealth restrictions
(Pre-conference build up)

Waldo Health gains 510(k) approval
(Industry/market news)

Verizon and Healthsense agreement for senior communities (US)
(Industry/market news)

ACOs creating more problems than solved? (US)
(An even dimmer view of ACOs than before)

Telehealth satisfaction; Personal-safety GPS device; ATA Annual Awards; mHealth; Aerotel; West Wireless Health Institute

The good(ish) and the reason why
(Why we keep plodding on, that is)

NYY incredible telehealth satisfaction survey results (UK)
(96%!)

Personal-safety GPS device security risk
(Leading US device hacked)

ATA Annual Awards recognize telehealth leaders and innovators (US)
(Conference news)

Seafarers to get better mHealth
(Niche market news)

Electronic alert system to prevent venous thromboembolism in
hospitalized patients (Spain)
(Key info missing)

mHealth features heavily in Sunday supplement (UK)
(Getting into mainstream media)

Can the NHS save through innovation?
(Window on the state of the NHS)

Aerotel: New cash, new supporter
(Industry news)

Why boomers lag in smartphone adoption
(45 years+ in the US not getting smartphones at expected rate)

West Wireless Health Institute's 'evolution'
(Becoming more policy-oriented)

Excessive EHR alerts counterproductive: study (US)
(Accuracy of alerts and lack of response to them)

mHealth; iPhone tracking; Telehealth appointment reminders; Connected Patient; American Well

TANN site updates
(Can you use them more?)

mHealth at peak, exaggerations avalanche
(Getting ready to jump out of the way)

Doctors and patients jumping on mHealth and changing healthcare as we know it?
(Getting ready to jump into the way)

'Going mobile': the promise and the confusion
(Also with iPhone tracking update)

Denver Health, Microsoft develop diabetes text program
(Blood glucose measurements and appointment reminders)

Report: 'The Connected Patient'
(Holiday catchup reading)

American Well goes direct to physicians
(Physicians initiate 'concierge medicine')

Your new computer mouse may be your brain
(Pointer to the future)

ATA conference; English telehealth; Brain wave-controlled games; Personal health and fitness; FDA MDDS regulations

Walking the ethical line
(Do these examples overstep it?)

ATA conference report sponsorship opportunity
(Help us serve you better)

Scot’s advice to English telehealth
(It's not a difficult concept...)

1 in 4 people aged under 16 will now live to 100+ (UK)
(Has implications for public policy)

If apps could read your mind...
(Brain wave-controlled games)

...they might tell you...connect me please!
(Personal health and fitness devices underused)

Update: FDA MDDS regulations effective today (US)
(Significant issues for suppliers)

Facebook; Kaiser Permanente; e-Patient Dave; Veterans Administration; Vodafone/mHealth Alliance awards

Facebooking care coordination?
(Can FB take over healthcare like it is doing the internet?)

Kaiser goes to Washington, struts its stuff
(No small players here)

"Give us our damn data!"
(Patient empowerment Video)

Cardiovascular disease can be detected earlier during sleep (Sweden)
(Research moving towards remote monitoring)

VA awards $1.38 billion in six contracts for telehealth (US)
(Veterans Administration latest moves)

Vodafone/mHealth Alliance awards
(Who got what)

NHS telehealth; Dead and undiscovered; Edison Awards; VA six contracts; Persuasive Tech Lab

Funding shortage to slow NHS roll-out of telehealth
(So don't get your hopes up)

Getting smart, slowly (Australia)
(Project results)

EU BRAID programme - people dead and undiscovered in Portugal
(Not what you expect in southern Europe)

Information sharing, telehealth technologies rated top
in innovation potential
(International survey results)

Edison Awards to American Well, MedApps, ZPass
(For innovative new products and services)

VA awards six contracts for telehealth (US)
(Significant market development)

'Next-gen' patient apps envisioned at UCSF (US)
(What if one size does not fit all?)

Evolving Issues with Home Use Devices (US)
(Seminar news)

7 eldercare Twitter feeds (US)
(Useful resources)

Persuasive Tech Lab Health Behavior Award nominations sought
(Line your mhealth app up for one)

Ireland as an 'international healthcare services centre'?
(New business venture)

Hospital records; ACOs and Medicare; Breeze@home; iRx Reminder; Healthcare kiosk; Invicta and Guinness

Hospital records: paper to electronic access in less than two years (Canada)
(Institutional turnaround)

More on ACOs and Medicare (US)
(Important - for readers in the States)

Breeze@home to monitor lung conditions
(Product development)

Incubating healthcare IT startups
(Source of funding?)

Readers' requests
(Can you help?)

mHealth app developer iRx Reminder looks for foothold in research market
(Market strategy)

Old age, dementia and euthanasia
(Three items in one)

Weekend reading: Technology as an enabler
(Long think piece)

Do we lose or gain in mobile medicine?
(Current public perception of mhealth)

Dishman's long riff on proposed ACO rules (US)
(See also ACO item above)

Go to the supermarket, visit the healthcare kiosk?
(Read the comments, too)

Retail health clinics impeded in NY, other states (US)
(Clinics in drugstores run into problems)

TANN: Portugal goes live
(Can you help?)

Invicta and Guinness Partnership contract (UK)
(Market development)

How mHealth business models could work
(Another take on the issue)

Items posted in March
(Of which there were 76)

British Heart Foundation; NEHI; Telepresence robots; mHealth; NHS changes

How can health care be improved with IT? (Canada)
(Ask the people)

British Heart Foundation and Southampton monitoring study
(New study announced?)

NEHI study update (US)
(Research news)

Your Friday robo-fix: 'telepresence robots' (US)
('Robots' - with quotes)

mHealth connecting doctors in Africa, reminding HIV patients
(mHealth 1)

Low-resource mHealth
(mHealth 2)

mHealth - change of approach needed?
(mHealth 3)

Proposed NHS changes lashed by Lord Owen
(The NHS context is changing - this will help you keep up)

Philips; European Connected Health; e-Health 2011; Kiwok; GSM/GPRS modem; 'Smart' contact lenses; Appy Awards; Chiptech

Philips talks down expectations of more large acquisitions
(Industry news)

3rd European Connected Health Leadership Summit
(Conference news)

e-Health 2011: Enabling Healthy Outcomes (Canada)
(Conference news)

Swedish m-health firm Kiwok plans IPO
(Industry news)

Low current GSM/GPRS modem for M2M (France)
(New product news)

Telemedicine facilitating disaster response: study
(Research news)

'Smart' contact lenses for health monitoring, information
(Pointer to the future news)

Look beyond the hospital: a design view
(Views news)

Now the 'Appy Awards'
(And the happy winner is...news)

ECCH updates its Remote Telemonitoring Service web page at last (N. Ireland)
(Civil service news)

Chiptech after the NZ earthquake
(Truly happy news)

AT&T/T-Mobile; Humana Cares; GE V Scan; inPulse; medical dashboards; Japan

AT&T/T-Mobile--the impact on mobile health?
(If the acquisition goes through)

Humana Cares 'big pilots' Intel Health Guide (US)
(For CHF patients)

Blood analysis in minutes, via chip
(New development news)

GE V Scan handheld ultrasound: review
(Virtues, despite initial skepticism)

inPulse: Putting your smartphone on your wrist
(Most exciting video this year for smartphone geeks)

We care more about our cars than we do ourselves - Sanders
(Why aren't we putting in medical dashboards?)

Japan: who cares now for elderly?
(After the earthquake and tsunami)

LivingWell@Home; Mobile Health Expo; telecare; Northern Ireland Remote Monitoring Service TF3; Tunstall

LivingWell@Home: eHealth's pointer to the future?
(First significant US study to combine telecare and telehealth)

Mobile Health Expo--early birds need to hurry!
(Discount ends today)

Care at home with telecare v care home care without (Scotland)
(Two contrasting stories from the same source)

Generation gap alive and well and living in a business near you
(Why?)

NHS North Yorkshire and York telehealth website launched
(Example of an excellent site)

Northern Ireland Remote Monitoring Service goes to... TF3
(The result announced at last)

Scottish Government's £10m marketing gift to Tunstall
(Good news for the Scottish people and for Tunstall)

SeNCit; Telecare; Video Consulting; mental health telehealth; CTIA E-Tech Awards; WLSA; Cost effective telehealth services

SeNCit set to disrupt the telecare device market?
(Interesting new product - you read it here first)

A random walk down Telecare Lane...
(5 items in 1)

Lessons from Richard Pope, Video Consulting Diabetes Consultant
(What did the patient's wife say?)

US army uses 80-foot container for mental health telehealth booths
(I suspect it's not as makeshift as it sounds)

Removing the barriers to telehealth--a policy view (US)
(New report)

CTIA E-Tech Awards finalists announced
(Winners due 23 March)

WLSA ramps up partner development
(Paul Sonnier news)

Buying cost effective telehealth services in Northern Ireland
(Major contribution to the telehealth evidence base)

Telehealth; Carefx; Scotland telecare; Connected healthcare; eHealth Craigslist; Ontario eHealth; Med-e-Tel; Virginia Telehealth Network; Moonray Healthcare; Telehealth Solutions

Despite growth, is telehealth on track?
(Or is it all mush?)

Carefx purchased by Harris for $155 million
(Industry news)

Innovation in Revolutionary (Crisis-Driven) Environments
(Iron fist in a soft glove)

Scotland continues to embed telecare into services and
media consciousness
(The ordinariness is palpable)

Let's have connected healthcare to avoid icky stuff
(Cisco blog item)

Hey Pepco: There's an app for that
(Food for thought)

eHealth as easy as Craigslist? Craig thinks so
(Craig still pushing at boundaries)

Former Ontario eHealth boss resurfaces in California
(Worthy of publicity? TA readers' opinions sought)

Ultra-low power MCUs for mobile smart metering
(Technical news)

RSM event Point of care testing: Disruptive innovation
(UK telehealth) Deadline approaching
(Conference news)

Med-e-Tel approaching rapidly
(Conference news)

Catch up with KF conference video
(Conference news)

No demand from patients for EHRs in the UK
(Food for thought for EHR proponents)

AT&T, Sprint talk healthcare plans @ HIMSS
(Gee-whiz item)

The Virginia Telehealth Network; using mHealth to bridge
the rural gap
(Virginia becoming a telecare/telehealth industry hub?)

Moonray Healthcare acquires Telehealth Solutions (UK)
(Industry news)

TANN live; McKesson mobilizes for health; Aetna; VA and EHRs; HIMSS

Telecare Aware News Network (TANN) goes live
(A flying start for Ireland and England)

Kings Fund Congress live streaming tomorrow and Wednesday
(Free registration)

McKesson Foundation 'mobilizes for health', awards $1.3 million in research
(Six grants up to $250,000)

Mobile health in linguistically diverse populations
(Advocating mobile health consult subsidies)

Aetna's tentative toe in telemedicine waters
(and Aetna is not known to be an early adopter...)

VA, Defense 'jointness' for EHRs (US)
(Seeking better outcomes for verterans)

Tablet Wars, HIMSS edition: docs love iPads, but is it all a conspiracy?
(Is Apple unstoppable?)

Smarter mobile phones; Qtel; Polish telecare company; Cardiocom; mHealth Initiative; Phrazer; Continua Alliance

Telecare Soapbox: Northern Ireland. We announce the winner and losers
(At last...?)

Older generation demands smarter mobile phones
(And why you can't phone them)

Qtel to launch mHealth services (Qatar)
(Industry news)

Failings in alarm response 'inexcusable' (NZ)
(Lessons learned)

WSD "shows promising results"
(Of course it does)

Polish telecare company seeks contacts
(Can you help?)

Once again into the breach... (US)
(More personal health data losses)

Cardiocom 'demo' on local TV
(What you can do in local markets)

Your Friday forecast: 'telemedicine' at $23 billion in 2015
(Yikes!)

mHealth Initiative agenda: FDA fears, expectations and hopes
(Conference news)

Phrazer handheld communicator
(Not telehealth, but...)

Continua Alliance in dire financial straits?
(Steve feels sorry for them)

Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua agreement
(Continua news)

GSMA Mobile World Congress: mHealth etc.
(Two views)

GP leader scorns ambulatory blood pressure monitoring recommendation (UK)
(GP resistance to telehealth monitoring)

HIMSS; Alere; Simultaneous wireless signals; Alarm fatigue; Philippines telehealth; Telehealth and telecare in England

HIMSS news in brief: Monday
(Conference/exhibition news)

Alere's acquisition of HTL will change the telehealth market
(Major announcement)

'Hype curve alert' on mHealth apps: research2guidance
(Report)

Pushing patient clinical summaries to mobile devices
(Mobile app)

Simultaneous wireless signals sent and received
(Pointer to the future)

PHR and payment smart card introduced at HIMSS (US)
(Payment option on a smart card?)

'Alarm fatigue' and what to do
(An issue for us all)

Philippines to fast track national telehealth project
(Telemed extension)

Drawn by free saree offer, 65-yr-old maid conned (India)
(What are the implications?)

The future of telehealth and telecare in England is on a knife edge
(Doubts about the uptake of the technologies)

Facebook; Doro; Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring; Telehealthcare; Single European patent; implantable heart sensor; Birmingham OwnHealth

Telecare Aware is recruiting
(Volunteers, that is)

Life-saving diagnosis via Facebook
(A friend in deed)

Doro global strategic partnerships with MyGlucoHealth
and Medixine
(Phone manufacturer digs into mHealth)

Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring Conference (US)
(Baltimore conference news)

BMJ Clinical Review: Telehealthcare for long term conditions
(New academic paper)

Telecare and council cuts (UK)
(Taking the temperature of the UK)

Home Is Where the Heart Monitor Is
(General telehealth item)

Single European patent almost a reality
(Welcome development)

'First responder' high-speed wireless network: $10.7 billion
(Are we heartened? No!)

Lancet study: implantable heart sensor reduces heart failure
related hospitalizations by 39%
(Measuring pulmonary artery pressure)

Nanosheets and graphene: powering sensors, computers
(Pointers to the future)

Birmingham OwnHealth shows its worth (UK)
(One of the better items lately)

FDA; Colored pendants; iPhone; Tunstall; Telecare petition; Tele-ICUs

FDA publishes medical device data system rules
(Published today)

Benchmarking telehealth and telemedicine: study
(Research and Markets's new study)

A 'remote' chance?
(Patient satisfaction is not enough)

New colored pendants (US)
(Sign of the times)

Will cheap small iPhone favor globalization of mHealth?
(2 related items)

Tunstall to participate in NSW telehealth programme (Aus)
(Other providers unknown)

Free telecare petition online (Wales)
(Less exciting than sounds)

Developing an mHealth app for pharma
(Best practice guide, plus comment)

Tele-ICUs for intensive care reduce patient mortality
by 20%, save up to $10,000: study
(Good telemed finding)

Tablet wars #3: Friday 'soon the weekend' edition
(Nokia to be third horse in the race?)

VA healthcare; NaviNet; Medical Device Tax; Why are medical alerts so ugly; Telemed cart; Epilert; Telehealth monitoring; VitalPoint;

VA contracts for healthcare innovations in EHRs and mobile
(Latest VA Innovation Initiative)

Videophone support for family caregivers of dementia patients (US)
(ACITSFCDP: What kind of acronym is that?)

NaviNet extends into mobile care management
(Think Amazon)

'Reform' medical device tax--Senate moves repeal (US)
(Has implications for telehealth and telecare)

Why are medical alerts so ugly? (US)
(And see comments on original post)

Continua and GCF to develop certification process
(Looks like a good move)

Telemed cart saves $540,000 in 7 months (US)
(Has ROI even discounting helicopter costs)

EpiLert a step closer to production at last (Israel)
(At last! At last!)

Prevent hospital admissions, win $3m (US)
(Competition, but use pre-existing data)

Telehealth monitoring for 100s of patients in Greece
(Part of an EU initiative)

New end user device: VitalPoint
(With outsourced device manufacturing facility)

Compassion: 'the universal solvent'
(Don't lose touch with what inspired you)

GP commissioners; Pacific telehealth; Robot RP-7; Telehealth; Kiosks and tablets; Obama videoconferencing; Toumaz

Will GP commissioners embrace telehealth? (UK)
(Will they? Won't they? Will they? Won't they?)

Brighter days in eHealth financing? It depends...
(Donna takes a long view)

Alaska, Hawaii join for Pacific telehealth
(Establishing a telehealth resource center)

Your Friday robot special: RP-7 in rural Oregon
(You may want to watch the video)

Your Friday digital health forecast: $5.7 billion in 2015
(What better way to spend $3,200?)

Personalized medicine and HIT
(Data still dropping from the blue sky)

Telehealth: more freedom for doctors and patients?
(Telemedicine item)

Automating patient check-in: kiosk or tablet?
(Another tech 'war' to keep an eye on?)

Rural and Remote Telehealth Conference (Aus)
(Conference news)

Obama promotes patient-doctor videoconferencing
(See the comment too)

Toumaz launches something that's possibly interesting
(Contender for the 'Incomprehensible Press Release of the Month Award')

Ocean Blue adds Skype; Telehealth video; Neelie Kroes on eHealth; Intamac; MBAN; Safety Confirmation - Alertacall

Ocean Blue adds Skype video conferencing to TV set top boxes
(Low cost videoconferencing in telecare gets closer?)

NHS Alliance / N Somerset telehealth video (UK)
(Good vid, but where is it being used?)

Neelie Kroes on eHealth (EU)
(European Commission encourages telecoms companies)

Intamac: New 3G-enabled connected home services (UK)
(Home automation development)

Monitors allow for better quality of life (US)
(Good local story)

MBAN a step closer
(Networks coming to a body near you?)

Safety confirmation confirmed (UK)
(Supporting changes to housing warden services)

Remote control; Isansys Lifecare; GSMA Mobile World Congress; Developing Telemedicine; smart pills

Remote control: The patient-practitioner relationship in a digital age
(Free report from the NHS Confederation)

Isansys Lifecare: Newcomer to the market (UK)
(Industry news)

GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011 (Barcelona)
(Conference news)

Telehealth in service context
(The importance of...)

Developing Telemedicine: Benefits for rural people (Sri Lanka)
(Interview with Dr Rohana Puspakumara)

Content provider buys app developer=man bites dog?
(Publisher pampers programing pooch?)

A smart 'smart pills' roundup
(LA Times avoids usual cliches)

Plug-and-play telehealth + touchscreen interactive Q&A
(Another new company and another new system)

BT; Intel Health Guide; Telenor; MobiSecure; Voalté; Cardiocom; WellComm; A&D;

BT's Intel Health Guide project in Wakefield (UK)
(BT raises its visibility)

Telenor completes project testing medical alert system (Norway)
(Conflating terminology)

89 million use social media for health, 99 million 'e-empowered': study
(8,600 results extrapolate to 89,000,000)

The Haiti earthquake and mobile technology--a look back
(The good and the bad)

Diversinet's MobiSecure in $5 million distribution deal; expands to Canada
(Industry news)

Voalté integrates nurse call alerts on iPhone
(Eliminating connecting nurse call to hospital PBX systems)

Cardiocom awarded by Frost & Sullivan for 'enabling technology'
(Cardiocom's second F&S award)

WellComm: a 'master app' for connecting wellness apps
(Works with 'all existing resources')

Continua and eHealth standards in European SmartHouses
(Good news for Continua)

The council, the charity and the dementia service (UK)
(Win-win all round)

Bonus added to Telecare Aware In Review
(Extra for TAIR subscribers)

Smart phones help elderly and disabled to manage their homes (EU)
(I2HOME project's simplified Universal Remote Console interface)

A&D: Three new wireless telehealth and wellness devices (or are they?)
(New product news)

BookIT: System for booking medical and other services from home (UK)
(New product in development)

1st Asia Pacific eCare and TeleCare Congress (Hong Kong)
(Conference news)

Mobile Health Summit 2011 (SA)
(Conference news)

GSMA Mobile World Congress (ES)
(Conference news)

CES 2011; Boomers' adoption of health technology

CES 2011 telehealth highlights
(Ed. Donna roundups reports from the event)

Report: boomers' adoption of health technology
(Free report)

GE/Intel joint venture; Telecare saves two lives; Skype, iPod and iPhone; InMezzo; Geisinger data breach

GE/Intel telehealth joint venture unveiled, operational
(Why isn't it better organised yet?)

Telecare saves two lives - twice (UK)
(Good news local story)

Professor James McLaughlin new chair of ECHCampus (N. Ireland)
(Congratulations)

Skype, iPod and iPhone
(Are Cisco and Vidyo worried?)

InMezzo and University of Kent develop biometric authentication services
(Because passwords are not good enough)

Computers that watch...and see more than you think?
(But can they see what you think?)

Geisinger Health System data breach affects 2900 patients (US)
(Touching an eHealth issue few are talking about)