Archive for March 2011

Philips; European Connected Health; e-Health 2011; Kiwok; GSM/GPRS modem; ‘Smart’ contact lenses; Appy Awards; Chiptech

Philips talks down expectations of more large acquisitions (Industry news) 3rd European Connected Health Leadership Summit (Conference news) e-Health 2011: Enabling Healthy Outcomes (Canada) (Conference news) Swedish m-health firm Kiwok plans IPO (Industry news) Low current GSM/GPRS modem for M2M (France) (New product news) Telemedicine facilitating disaster response: study (Research news) ‘Smart’ contact lenses for […]

AT&T/T-Mobile; Humana Cares; GE V Scan; inPulse; medical dashboards; Japan

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) […]

LivingWell@Home; Mobile Health Expo; telecare; Northern Ireland Remote Monitoring Service TF3; Tunstall

LivingWell@Home: eHealth’s pointer to the future? (First significant US study to combine telecare and telehealth) Mobile Health Expo–early birds need to hurry! (Discount ends today) Care at home with telecare v care home care without (Scotland) (Two contrasting stories from the same source) Generation gap alive and well and living in a business near you […]

SeNCit; Telecare; Video Consulting; mental health telehealth; CTIA E-Tech Awards; WLSA; Cost effective telehealth services

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 […]

Telehealth; Carefx; Scotland telecare; Connected healthcare; eHealth Craigslist; Ontario eHealth; Med-e-Tel; Virginia Telehealth Network; Moonray Healthcare; Telehealth Solutions

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 […]

TANN live; McKesson mobilizes for health; Aetna; VA and EHRs; HIMSS

Telecare Aware News Network (TANN) goes live (A flying start for Ireland and England) Kings Fund Congress live streaming tomorrow and Wednesday (Free registration) McKesson Foundation ‘mobilizes for health’, awards $1.3 million in research (Six grants up to $250,000) Mobile health in linguistically diverse populations (Advocating mobile health consult subsidies) Aetna’s tentative toe in telemedicine […]