Telecare Aware Update Listings

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 research market
(Market strategy)

Old age, dementia and euthanasia
(Three items in one)

Weekend reading: Technology as an enabler
(Long think piece)

Do we lose or gain in mobile medicine?
(Current public perception of mhealth)

Dishman’s long riff on proposed ACO rules (US)
(See also ACO item above)

Go to the supermarket, visit the healthcare kiosk?
(Read the comments, too)

Retail health clinics impeded in NY, other states (US)
(Clinics in drugstores run into problems)

TANN: Portugal goes live
(Can you help?)

Invicta and Guinness Partnership contract (UK)
(Market development)

How mHealth business models could work
(Another take on the issue)

Items posted in March
(Of which there were 76)

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 of approach needed?
(mHealth 3)

Proposed NHS changes lashed by Lord Owen
(The NHS context is changing – this will help you keep up)

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 health monitoring, information
(Pointer to the future news)

Look beyond the hospital: a design view
(Views news)

Now the ‘Appy Awards‘
(And the happy winner is…news)

ECCH updates its Remote Telemonitoring Service web page at last (N. Ireland)
(Civil service news)

Chiptech after the NZ earthquake
(Truly happy news)

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)

We care more about our cars than we do ourselves – Sanders
(Why aren’t we putting in medical dashboards?)

Japan: who cares now for elderly?
(After the earthquake and tsunami)

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
(Why?)

NHS North Yorkshire and York telehealth website launched
(Example of an excellent site)

Northern Ireland Remote Monitoring Service goes to… TF3
(The result announced at last)

Scottish Government’s £10m marketing gift to Tunstall
(Good news for the Scottish people and for Tunstall)

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 as makeshift as it sounds)

Removing the barriers to telehealth–a policy view (US)
(New report)

CTIA E-Tech Awards finalists announced
(Winners due 23 March)

WLSA ramps up partner development
(Paul Sonnier news)

Buying cost effective telehealth services in Northern Ireland
(Major contribution to the telehealth evidence base)

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 item)

Hey Pepco: There’s an app for that
(Food for thought)

eHealth as easy as Craigslist? Craig thinks so
(Craig still pushing at boundaries)

Former Ontario eHealth boss resurfaces in California
(Worthy of publicity? TA readers’ opinions sought)

Ultra-low power MCUs for mobile smart metering
(Technical news)

RSM event Point of care testing: Disruptive innovation
(UK telehealth) Deadline approaching
(Conference news)

Med-e-Tel approaching rapidly
(Conference news)

Catch up with KF conference video
(Conference news)

No demand from patients for EHRs in the UK
(Food for thought for EHR proponents)

AT&T, Sprint talk healthcare plans @ HIMSS
(Gee-whiz item)

The Virginia Telehealth Network; using mHealth to bridge
the rural gap
(Virginia becoming a telecare/telehealth industry hub?)

Moonray Healthcare acquires Telehealth Solutions (UK)
(Industry news)

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 waters
(and Aetna is not known to be an early adopter…)

VA, Defense ‘jointness’ for EHRs (US)
(Seeking better outcomes for verterans)

Tablet Wars, HIMSS edition: docs love iPads, but is it all a conspiracy?
(Is Apple unstoppable?)

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 help?)

Once again into the breach… (US)
(More personal health data losses)

Cardiocom ‘demo’ on local TV
(What you can do in local markets)

Your Friday forecast: ‘telemedicine’ at $23 billion in 2015
(Yikes!)

mHealth Initiative agenda: FDA fears, expectations and hopes
(Conference news)

Phrazer handheld communicator
(Not telehealth, but…)

Continua Alliance in dire financial straits?
(Steve feels sorry for them)

Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua agreement
(Continua news)

GSMA Mobile World Congress: mHealth etc.
(Two views)

GP leader scorns ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
recommendation (UK)
(GP resistance to telehealth monitoring)

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 option on a smart card?)

‘Alarm fatigue‘ and what to do
(An issue for us all)

Philippines to fast track national telehealth project
(Telemed extension)

Drawn by free saree offer, 65-yr-old maid conned (India)
(What are the implications?)

The future of telehealth and telecare in England is on a knife edge
(Doubts about the uptake of the technologies)