Telecare dog; Orange Healthcare; Telemonitoring; Aetna and Banner Health; Telehealth cool; Bosch North America; The Telecare/Telehealth History Project

Cute dog saves owner with telecare alarm (UK) (We look forward to the 3ML award!) Orange Healthcare: "eHealth is a key pillar of Orange’s Conquest 2015 strategy" (EU) (Company news) Two events for UK readers (One is next week) In terms of ROI, the biggest saving comes from telemonitoring (Netherlands) (For the evidence file) Pharmacist the missing link in telehealth? (US) (There has to be a 'missing link' joke in there somewhere...) Aetna stacks technology into Banner Health ACO (US) (Another sign of mainstreaming happening?) Telehealth officially 'cool' in Ohio (US) (Good to know!) Bosch North America's 2011 results (Company news) The forefront of mHealth: Learning from Saxon times (Must-watch video) Who, What, When? The History Project (Get in quick before Ed. Steve regrets taking this on!)

Telecare Services Association; smartphone screener for oral lesions; ATA announcements; Code of Practice for Telehealth; 3millionlives; Roy Lilley; Telemedicine and Parkinson's

Telecare Soapbox: What should the role of the Telecare Services Association be?
(Editor Steve wonders if it is time for a change)

Award-winning smartphone screener for oral lesions an infection risk? (New products and unregulated markets)

ATA: Company announcements and news in brief (ATA updates)

April 2012 Telecare LIN Newsletter published (UK) (Your comprehensive source)

Draft Code of Practice for Telehealth Services launched (EU) (The EU alternative)

3millionlives: Medilink's publicity for members (UK) (An enthusiastic piece)

DH's ham-fisted block of WSD results (UK) (Read it and...)

Roy Lilley on WSD: "There is something very strange about this trial, or the data, or how it's been done" (UK) (Entertaining, but barbed, rant)

Telemedicine and Parkinson's Disease: the Merinoff Symposium at ATA

(Event news)

Telemedicine; Patient from Hell; Accenture; 3millionlives; ECHAlliance

What is that pill, anyway? Here's an app to find out
(Many apps are fun, a few will save lives)

The limitations of telemedicine shown in Canadian study
(Issues of videoconferencing quality - and terminology)

Upset Patient from Hell with implementation in his sights (UK)
(Will 3ML be seen as part of hated NHS 'reforms'?)

3millionlives: Accenture's contribution - 'intelligent shirts' (UK)
(Not to mention 'genomics')

3millionlives: The myth perpetuates (US)
(3 wrong concepts in one short sentence)

ECHAlliance members: Expressions of interest for 'On-line Innovation Factory' (UK)
(Translation requested)

DLF Introduction to Telecare one day course (UK)
(Event news)

Free telemedicine strategy ebook (US)
(Consultancy's offer)

3millionlives; Smartphone apps; AirStrip MobiSecure; Aerotel GeoSkeeper; Telecare suppliers; Mobile Health Africa

3millionlives: Plan B and Plan C
(Still unconvinced on Plan A)

New arrivals to the monitoring web portal party...(US)
(Fujitsu and a barking name)

Smartphone apps to reduce social anxiety
(Based on cognitive bias modification)

A call for 'dialing back the hype'
(Read if planning the next Big Thing)

AirStrip selects MobiSecure for government health apps
(Upgrading their mobile security)

Kenya's startup boom
(Lessons for planning a large, government-inspired project)

Aerotel's GeoSkeeper receives FCC and IC approvals (US & Canada)
(Illustrating how long it can take to come to market)

Bonanza for six telecare suppliers (Scotland)
(And not a Cartwright in sight)

Mobile Health Africa: Connected Africa Forum
(Conference news)

3millionlives cartel; Medical alert summoned police; Neelie Kroes telecare and telehealth; Walsall telecare; Bosch Healthcare sues three companies

3millionlives. A cartel in the making? (UK)
(Feedback from unhappy companies)

Drug delivery on a wireless chip closer
(Pointer to the future)

Medical alert summoned police--with tragic consequences (US)
(Sad story)

Neelie Kroes acknowledges Scotland's telecare and telehealth promotion
(Thumbs up for Scotland)

Walsall making telecare a default component of care packages (UK)
(But who writes their quotes?)

Tallinn hopes to introduce telecare (Estonia)
(Going about it the wrong way)

Bosch Healthcare sues three companies over patent infringements
(A shot across the bows for other companies)

Docobo Doc@Home; Rite Aid; AirStrip/Qualcomm; telecare equipment; telehealth; MyFlare; 3millionlives

Cardiac consultant demos telehealth (UK)
(Docobo Doc@Home)

FDA throwing a monkey wrench into telehealth? (US)
(Discouraging outcomes-based care and lower costs)

Skip the retail clinic, go online--fine with Rite Aid
(Virtual consults catching on as money and time-saving)

AirStrip gains investment, monitoring tech integration with Qualcomm
(Qualcomm's bets on wireless health multiplying)

Portugal Telecom to provide telecare equipment
(With a charity)

Why the NHS must embrace telehealth on a larger scale
(Good general telehealth item)

3 iPhone and iPad medical devices we’d like to see
(Near future wish list)

Healthbots interview: Professor Bruce MacDonald (New Zealand)
(More robots in the home)

MyFlare launches moblie PERS app in Spanish
(PERS for a one-off $9.99)

3millionlives: Invitation to the party - at a price (UK)
(A public cartel in the making?)

Telehealth; Robotic exoskeletons; Telecare service; Telemedicine - An Introduction; Telecare Technology

Investor paper on telehealth
(A wealth of information on technology use in home care)

Robotic exoskeletons for mobility update--again
(The wearable robot on track for release)

Telehealth’s promising global future
(Excellent roundup)

Living alone with pets and telecare service (Canada and US)
(An often forgotten angle)

Final proof that telecare has arrived (UK)
(Never mind it hasn't featured in the soaps yet)

Where have all the NHS IT champions gone?
(Thoughtful item by the Patient from Hell)

New Book: Telemedicine - An Introduction
(With an Indian focus)

Staffordshire will continue to contract with Telecare Technology (UK)
(Why would it not?)

Popsi Cube; Telecare LIN; 3 Million Lives; Proteus Biomedical; Cornwall telehealth; Pew Internet; Robotic telemedicine; Ford's car that cares; NNY £3.2m telehealth project

Roundup of good and bad telecare and telehealth news items
(8 items in 1)

New telehealth product: Popsi Cube (US)
(Interesting name)

FLORA for wearable devices?
(Interesting development)

Telecare LIN January 2012 newsletter published (UK)
(New format)

3 Million Lives website launched (UK)
(One to keep an eye on)

Readers' help wanted
(Can you? Please?)

Proteus Biomedical to introduce smartpill into UK in September
(Thumbs up for the Lloydspharmacy chain)

Cornwall: 30,000 people to use telehealth
(Aiming high for mainstreaming)

A light at the end of the reimbursement tunnel for telehealth--or something else? (US)
(Hope for US telehealth adoption?)

Tracking online health and social networking: Pew Internet study
(With updated online health information usage tips)

A different take on an eHealth 'top 10'
(From a clinical perspective)

Study on barriers to robotic telemedicine
(Useful study if that's what you are trying to introduce)

'iAwards for Wireless Health' applications open
(Call for nominations)

Ford's 'car that cares' visits CES, Syncs up Healthrageously
(Get into Ford's mobile telehealth monitor)

WSJ's 'Doctor in Pocket...' overeggs the pudding
(Editor Donna's gimlet-eyed take)

NNY £3.2m telehealth project - negative evaluation hits local headlines
(Updated last night with 6 interesting links)

Assistive technology; Telecare; Connected Health Symposium 2011; PTSD; Robotic assisted exoskeleton; Telehealth; Telemedicine; Shoes with embedded GPS

Please take our brief assistive technology survey

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)