Archive for the ‘eHealth’ Category

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Health Net Connect; BRAID; NHS Bristol; FDA draft guidance; Cisco layoffs; iRobot and InTouch; mHealth acquisitions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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.