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)