Telecare Aware Update Listings

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]