Telecare Aware Update Listings

Bosch Netwell Centre telehealth trial (Ireland)
(Yes! Another trial!)

Tunstall: pre-election positioning (UK)
(Tunstall entrenches in consciousness of politicians)

Alert One rebrands as Alert1 (US)
(Err… rebranding news)

iSOFT and Medic4all new telehealth service (EU)
(Industry development)

Wakefield and District Housing alarm service anniversary (UK)
(Clear communications)

‘Hanging together’–Aging Technology Alliance announced
(New development – look out for more info next week)

Telehealth pavilion debuting at CTIA
(Las Vegas 23-25 March)

Telehealth on Fox Business News
(Solid mainstream item)

Tanzania using mobile for childhood treatment
(Reaching the previously unreachable)

500 Android health apps=3 million downloads?
(Market developments)

American Well connects in New York
(Telehealth spreads)

‘Crying wolf’: US municipalities charging for false PERS alarms
(Highlights the importance of proper response system)

M-health: same old opportunities, same old disappointment?
(Like the ‘teles’, not meeting expectations)

LogicMark sues Medical Alarm Concepts (US)
(Market grows – more to lose – companies get tough)

Telecare for young woman with MS and free telecare for older people
(Breath of fresh air v brand promotion)

Read’em and weep – I do!
(I am not alone… I am not!… I am not!)

Mobile World Congress 2010 mHealth Review
(Massive resource)

Doctor will text you now
(Article for the general public)

Medication reminders by email and text (US)
(Reminders and more)

Update: Does our logo look like this?
(New security attacks on IE6 and IE7 users)

Med-e-Tel 2010 approaching
(Conference info)

How obtrusive is the equipment you provide?
(It’s not just about usability)

EMR sampling by private practice physicians (US)
(US electronic medical record choices)

West Wireless Health Institute names CEO
(WWHI is a research and advocacy organization)

ODLs making a comeback?
(ODLs = Observations of daily living)

Smartphone adoption by physicians expected at 81% by 2012
(Oh how we love these predictions…)

Explosive growth in iPhone health apps
(What else is a bandwagon for?)

Microrings and Skinput
(Pointers to the future)

GPS dementia tagging: is it too demeaning?
(Tagging, yes. Facilitating independence, no)

UK GPs have no confidence in PCT managers
(Why not?)

Seventh Annual What’s Next Boomer Business Summit
(Conference reminder, Chicago)

National Digital Research Centre (Ireland)
(COPD monitoring device project)

Make equipment that doesn’t have to be used (Japan)
(Great aspiration)

O2 UK appoints to new mobile healthcare division
(Steve makes a prediction)

Healthcare suffers owing to delays in technology roll-out (Scotland)
(Government committee bewails lack of progress)

The Innovator’s Prescription (video)
(Don’t miss this one)

HIMSS wrapup
(Conference overview)

UK Framework Agreement: For the curious or hesitant
(View the Invitation to Tender)

UK Framework Agreement: Application observations
(This item replaced the checklist first posted)

UK Framework Agreement: Application observations

GE QuietCare inks distribution with Direct Supply
(When in doubt, outsource)

Motorola HS1001 – the iPhone for the home?
(What do you mean, home phone?)

Red Cross telecare services?
(Request for information)

MarketWatch reviews wireless health
(Various initiatives and pilots)

Changes at Invicta Telecare (UK)
(Statement)

Will US telemedicine be DOA?
(Actually, not so doomy-gloomy)

Veterans Administration presolicitation notice for telehealth
(Seeking up to six vendors)

ExpressScripts testing GlowCaps
(Industry news)

Times Online Health: smartphones r doc in poc
(Consumer-oriented overview)

Crunch time for suppliers: new UK telecare and telehealth ‘Framework’ procurement agreement in process
(Essential reading)

February’s Telecare LIN eNewsletter published
(eNewsletter published)

Cisco launches HealthPresence technology at HIMSS
(Moving out of test mode?)

‘A perfect storm’ in connected health’s favor?
(Doctor becomes a believer)

HIMSS news in brief: RIM, Voalté, Epocrates
(Round up)

Dental telemedicine in California?
(Not quite as it seems)

Squashy Call Button (UK)
(Product news)

Philips Motiva: positive results from Catalan project
(Another study)

Telehealthcare – what are they thinking?
(See comments too)

Surrey: £50,000 telecare for people with dementia
(Can you throw some light of this?)

Cardio Pod predicting heart attack risk (Scotland)
(Market development)

Coroner criticises Sunderland Council call centre (UK)
(Sad, but old, case)

The Patient from Hell thumbs down to the iPad
(With telecare implications)

Please read the investment fund item if nothing else from the 11 posted since Tuesday!

Seminar report: Telehealth, telecare and new technologies in UK healthcare
(How not to organise an event)

Council and PCT collaborate on telecare deal
(Common sense approach from West Sussex)

The coming technology innovation drought
(But Intel and others doing something about it)

mHealth: sorting the hype from the here-and-now
(Biting blog item)

Bosch Health Buddy deployed at Montefiore Medical Center
(Large-scale trial)

FDA considers regulation of ‘safety risks’ of health IT
(EMR issues explored by HuffPo)

Generating device power from body movements
(Pointer to the future)

DH consults on COPD strategy (UK)
(What role is it proposing for telehealth?)

Time for a telecare/telehealth investment fund?
(Would YOU invest?)

Interview with AirStrip Technologies’ president
(FDA approval is tough)

Six differences between eHealth and mHealth
(The debate goes on)

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8 selected items since Friday’s alert:

Veterans Administration (US) and telehealth
(The problems of scale)

Mayo Clinic, Intel, GE test post-acute monitoring
(Intel Health Guide study)

The sensitive home
(Moving out of the lab)

Sleepless sensors
(Monitoring from the machine-to-machine (M2M) perspective)

German Federal Minister of Health to open TeleHealth at CeBIT 2010
(Conference news)

TalkTalk: free weekly chats for older people living alone (UK)
(Scratching a social responsibility itch)

Councils ‘will struggle with ageing population’ says Audit Commission (UK)
(A thumbs up for telecare)

SmartPersonalHealth Project (EU)
(Continua Alliance spreads its reach)

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Nine new items since Tuesday’s alert, and there are more waiting in the wings to be posted over the weekend.

Grey hair, big business
(BBC radio programme)

Hot debate on consumer ultrasound devices
(Are they dangerous?)

Barcelona: growing the mHealth ‘ecosystem’
(Discussion from Barcelona)

Healthcare highlights @ Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
(Conference roundup)

WebMD upgrades Medscape Mobile
(With new multimedia clinical reference material)

For laptop owner readers…
(This may be helpful)

II International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living
(Conference news)

McRoberts DynaPort Hybrid (Netherlands)
(Forgotten about your falls? Waist-worn device will reveal the truth)

Age Concern and Help The Aged selling Aid Call (UK)
(The backstory…yawn)

19 items posted since Friday’s alerts email:

Haiti and telemedicine
(Latest developments)

Norwegian diabetes mHealth application
(Self monitoring system)

A diagnostic sensor for orthopedic post-surgery
(New product smart skin patch)

Telemedicine at work
(‘Work’ as in ‘workplace’)

‘Tattletale pills and bottles’
(Useful roundup from CNN)

Avoiding FDA mHealth regulation–not easy
(Must-read if confused on US compliance matters)

Epocrates differs with iPad naysayers
(But then they would, wouldn’t they?)

Turn any surface into a multi-touch display
(Fascinating pointer to the future)

Is the medical device market recession-proof?
(Five views)

Hampshire’s virtual ward (UK)
(Another step in the right direction)

Healthcare wants a tablet, but not Apple’s iPad: survey
(“What healthcare wants, the iPad doesn’t have”)

Telehealthcare brand spotting
(New game: brand spotting…)

Tunstall’s press release blog
(All the press releases you need)

Telemedicine’s captive audiences
(Guess where they are?)

Breakthrough in online psychotherapy?
(Connecting people with professionals online)

‘Opening the black box’
(First find your black box…)

Medical image study: handheld screens as good as standard PC monitors
(A positive for mobile radiology)

First-ever handheld ultrasound units at Winter Olympics
(To be supplied by GE from a Mobile Medical Unit)

Collecting patient information in Haiti via iPhones
(creating patient medical records on iPhones)