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)