Telecare Aware Update Listings

13 new items since Tuesday’s alert:

Alcatel-Lucent trial of TeleHealth Manager in NZ
(Following hard on the heels of its US FDA clearance)

IBM Health Analytics Solution Center announced
(This will be big)

One small strip of plaster, one giant strip of data
(Toumaz Technology products)

What’s in a (ehealth) name?
(We wish we could tell you, but your site won’t let us!)

Where’s the humanity?
(In case we get complacent)

The only limit in Connected Health is our imagination…
(So let’s exercise it more?)

Clay Shirky keynote speech video
(Never mind “who?”, just listen to it)

Philips does deal with Achmea (Netherlands)
(Industry developments)

400 million wireless sensors by 2014
(Market research paper)

Online PHRs, mobile phones, flash drives and retail convergence
(Dizzy with convergence? You will be!)

Canada Report: ‘Privacy by Design’
(Ethical issues)

Great Call/Jitterbug buys mobile PERS company
(Takeover news)

Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager cleared for US marketing
(Gearing up to be one of the big players?)

Text messaging pilot for high-risk pregnant women expanded
(Textehealth?)

Another take on Connected Health
(Aerial view from Steve Brown)

NY connects health–someday soon
(At what a cost!)

RPM: No patient left behind
(Survey of practitioners)

Helping the old old benefit from the internet
(Refreshingly positive)

5 new technologies that will change everything
(Pointer to the future)

Therapy over the internet for brain injured patients?
(Using the unmodified internet for care purposes)

Sensium Life Pebble from Toumaz Technologies
(New product)

High level meeting on eHealth
(While we get on with it, Ministers plan)

Automated medication dispensers
(Could one have helped?)

Telehealth award for Norfolk PCT and partners
(Congratulations)

Posted since Friday:

Connected Health Symposium: In the news
(Round up of other post-conference reports)

ZigBee’s Value to Personal Health Care
(The case for Zigbee)

CTIA interviews: AirStrip; BlackBerry; MedApps
(Views on mhealth developments)

(Re)Gaming The System
(Pointer to a near future change of paradigm)

A Weight off my Mind: Telecare for Carers Conference (Scotland)
(Good idea)

Nursing Home, Long-Term Care Trends: Robotic Technology
(Developments in robotics. See comments too)

What’s your image of an older person?
(This item may change it!)

Donna’s latest update completes her report on the Connected Health Conference, Boston this week. There’s a lot to take in, so get your favourite drink first!

Thanks to our conference sponsors who made it possible.

Report of the first morning now posted
(and for people in the UK, the afternoon’s
may be posted by the time you read this)

Thanks to our sponsors:

UK telecare suppliers Tynetec
http://www.tynetec.co.uk/

and

The WhereBusiness, organisers of the first
World Conference on People Tracking
Amsterdam in December 2 – 3.
http://www.thewherebusiness.com/peopletracking

*** Other updates since yesterday’s alert ***

Broadcast your heart rate on Twitter?

Is Bluetooth on its way out?

Alzheimer’s caregiver chains wandering wife

US Hospitals increasing use of video conferencing

5 items: Brookings thinktank customer-driven medicine; Emotional networking; HealthVault flu tool; Taiwan telecare seminar; AutoGlucoCheck http://www.telecareaware.com

Leeds OTs evaluate use of Just Checking by the Mental Health Intermediate Care Service (UK)
(Evaluation report)

More on medication dispensing
(Follow-up item)

News roundup 7 Oct
(4 items in one… your feedback requested)

Encouragement for telehealth startups via ‘levers’?
(Role for US health reform funding?)

Scottish Centre for Telehealth (SCT) to integrate into NHS 24
(Visionary development)

Tower Hamlets increases telecare take-up (UK)
(Learn how)

Innovation. What is it?
(Spot the difference)

Philips goes cordless
(New product news)

New Zealand’s first telehealth pilot begins
(Small beer)

Connected Health: Cheap and easy tools should come before EMRs
(Issues for physicians in small practices in the US)

United Health Group and Cisco initiative for national telehealth system
(Industry news)

Continua and ZigBee announce collaboration on standards
(Industry news)

Nothing interesting to read? Here are 13 possibilities posted since Friday:

mHealth in developing countries, Ringful
(Where does all the data go?)

Discussion of low-energy wireless connectivity
(Throwing light on technical issues)

Using Dependability Telecare Assessment to assess telecare equipment
(Another application for the DTA tool)

Tynetec’s commitment to growth
(Industry news: new Board members)

Telehealth Ethics
(Article preview)

O2 in Czech Republic looking at telehealth
(Industry news)

Magic carpet to detect falls?
(If you are into fall detection, don’t miss this)

Trends in mobile phone technology for health monitoring
(Why mobile is the upcoming technology)

Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect at Home
(Video)

Telemedicine trends, Parts 1 and 2
(Keep your finger on the way the market is moving)

Cross-cultural telemedicine
(Teleconferencing overcoming language and cultural barriers)

Telecare Soapbox: Challenge to Service Commissioners
(With suggested 14-point list of features to include)

Sponsorship opportunity
(Help us keep you better informed)

Another type of ‘aging in place’
(Can you win the high street market one building at a time?)

Canada’s got telehealth
(Of a sort)

Bosch Healthcare garners Frost & Sullivan award
(Observations on Bosch’s US strategy)

More on ‘aging in place’ – Digital doctors thriving on house calls
(Intel- and GE-related)

Finally, a better fall detector? (myHalo Clip)
(First of several better detectors in the pipeline?)

Beyond ‘smart homes’-‘Home health pavilion’ added to EHX 2010
(Moving out of the ‘forever tested’)

“The patient of the future”, engaged (HealthLeaders magazine)
(Technology changing the relationship with doctors)

Telehealth / telecare project dropouts
(WSD insight)

UK Government telecare policy and the Scottish Telecare Development Programme
(Useful roundup)

KidneyTel system: Germany
(New patient monitoring development)

IBM toe-hold project in Italy
(IBM starts small)

Denmark’s large scale telehealth project
(For COPD patients)

Burnside desktop wireless phone for older people to get public airing at London Care Show
(Previous story follow up)