Telecare Aware Update Listings

Telecare Aware is recruiting
(Volunteers, that is)

Life-saving diagnosis via Facebook
(A friend in deed)

Doro global strategic partnerships with MyGlucoHealth
and Medixine
(Phone manufacturer digs into mHealth)

Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring Conference (US)
(Baltimore conference news)

BMJ Clinical Review: Telehealthcare for long term conditions
(New academic paper)

Telecare and council cuts (UK)
(Taking the temperature of the UK)

Home Is Where the Heart Monitor Is
(General telehealth item)

Single European patent almost a reality
(Welcome development)

‘First responder’ high-speed wireless network: $10.7 billion
(Are we heartened? No!)

Lancet study: implantable heart sensor reduces heart failure
related hospitalizations by 39%
(Measuring pulmonary artery pressure)

Nanosheets and graphene: powering sensors, computers
(Pointers to the future)

Birmingham OwnHealth shows its worth (UK)
(One of the better items lately)

FDA publishes medical device data system rules
(Published today)

Benchmarking telehealth and telemedicine: study
(Research and Markets’s new study)

A ‘remote’ chance?
(Patient satisfaction is not enough)

New colored pendants (US)
(Sign of the times)

Will cheap small iPhone favor globalization of mHealth?
(2 related items)

Tunstall to participate in NSW telehealth programme (Aus)
(Other providers unknown)

Free telecare petition online (Wales)
(Less exciting than sounds)

Developing an mHealth app for pharma
(Best practice guide, plus comment)

Tele-ICUs for intensive care reduce patient mortality
by 20%, save up to $10,000: study
(Good telemed finding)

Tablet wars #3: Friday ‘soon the weekend’ edition
(Nokia to be third horse in the race?)

VA contracts for healthcare innovations in EHRs and mobile
(Latest VA Innovation Initiative)

Videophone support for family caregivers of dementia patients (US)
(ACITSFCDP: What kind of acronym is that?)

NaviNet extends into mobile care management
(Think Amazon)

‘Reform’ medical device tax–Senate moves repeal (US)
(Has implications for telehealth and telecare)

Why are medical alerts so ugly? (US)
(And see comments on original post)

Continua and GCF to develop certification process
(Looks like a good move)

Telemed cart saves $540,000 in 7 months (US)
(Has ROI even discounting helicopter costs)

EpiLert a step closer to production at last (Israel)
(At last! At last!)

Prevent hospital admissions, win $3m (US)
(Competition, but use pre-existing data)

Telehealth monitoring for 100s of patients in Greece
(Part of an EU initiative)

New end user device: VitalPoint
(With outsourced device manufacturing facility)

Compassion: ‘the universal solvent’
(Don’t lose touch with what inspired you)

Will GP commissioners embrace telehealth? (UK)
(Will they? Won’t they? Will they? Won’t they?)

Brighter days in eHealth financing? It depends…
(Donna takes a long view)

Alaska, Hawaii join for Pacific telehealth
(Establishing a telehealth resource center)

Your Friday robot special: RP-7 in rural Oregon
(You may want to watch the video)

Your Friday digital health forecast: $5.7 billion in 2015
(What better way to spend $3,200?)

Personalized medicine and HIT
(Data still dropping from the blue sky)

Telehealth: more freedom for doctors and patients?
(Telemedicine item)

Automating patient check-in: kiosk or tablet?
(Another tech ‘war’ to keep an eye on?)

Rural and Remote Telehealth Conference (Aus)
(Conference news)

Obama promotes patient-doctor videoconferencing
(See the comment too)

Toumaz launches something that’s possibly interesting
(Contender for the ‘Incomprehensible Press Release of the Month Award’)

Ocean Blue adds Skype video conferencing to TV set top boxes
(Low cost videoconferencing in telecare gets closer?)

NHS Alliance / N Somerset telehealth video (UK)
(Good vid, but where is it being used?)

Neelie Kroes on eHealth (EU)
(European Commission encourages telecoms companies)

Intamac: New 3G-enabled connected home services (UK)
(Home automation development)

Monitors allow for better quality of life (US)
(Good local story)

MBAN a step closer
(Networks coming to a body near you?)

Safety confirmation confirmed (UK)
(Supporting changes to housing warden services)

Remote control: The patient-practitioner relationship in a digital age
(Free report from the NHS Confederation)

Isansys Lifecare: Newcomer to the market (UK)
(Industry news)

GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011 (Barcelona)
(Conference news)

Telehealth in service context
(The importance of…)

Developing Telemedicine: Benefits for rural people (Sri Lanka)
(Interview with Dr Rohana Puspakumara)

Content provider buys app developer=man bites dog?
(Publisher pampers programing pooch?)

A smart ‘smart pills‘ roundup
(LA Times avoids usual cliches)

Plug-and-play telehealth + touchscreen interactive Q&A
(Another new company and another new system)

BT’s Intel Health Guide project in Wakefield (UK)
(BT raises its visibility)

Telenor completes project testing medical alert system (Norway)
(Conflating terminology)

89 million use social media for health, 99 million ‘e-empowered’: study
(8,600 results extrapolate to 89,000,000)

The Haiti earthquake and mobile technology–a look back
(The good and the bad)

Diversinet’s MobiSecure in $5 million distribution deal; expands to Canada
(Industry news)

Voalté integrates nurse call alerts on iPhone
(Eliminating connecting nurse call to hospital PBX systems)

Cardiocom awarded by Frost & Sullivan for ‘enabling technology’
(Cardiocom’s second F&S award)

WellComm: a ‘master app’ for connecting wellness apps
(Works with ‘all existing resources’)

Continua and eHealth standards in European SmartHouses
(Good news for Continua)

The council, the charity and the dementia service (UK)
(Win-win all round)

Bonus added to Telecare Aware In Review
(Extra for TAIR subscribers)

Smart phones help elderly and disabled to manage their homes (EU)
(I2HOME project’s simplified Universal Remote Console interface)

A&D: Three new wireless telehealth and wellness devices (or are they?)
(New product news)

BookIT: System for booking medical and other services from home (UK)
(New product in development)

1st Asia Pacific eCare and TeleCare Congress (Hong Kong)
(Conference news)

Mobile Health Summit 2011 (SA)
(Conference news)

GSMA Mobile World Congress (ES)
(Conference news)

CES 2011 telehealth highlights
(Ed. Donna roundups reports from the event)

Report: boomers’ adoption of health technology
(Free report)

GE/Intel telehealth joint venture unveiled, operational
(Why isn’t it better organised yet?)

Telecare saves two lives – twice (UK)
(Good news local story)

Professor James McLaughlin new chair of ECHCampus (N. Ireland)
(Congratulations)

Skype, iPod and iPhone
(Are Cisco and Vidyo worried?)

InMezzo and University of Kent develop biometric authentication services
(Because passwords are not good enough)

Computers that watch…and see more than you think?
(But can they see what you think?)

Geisinger Health System data breach affects 2900 patients (US)
(Touching an eHealth issue few are talking about)

Nearly one in five UK citizens ‘to survive beyond 100’
(Pointer to the future)

EC and US sign ehealth deal
(On Electronic Health Records)

Study of user-led online learning for mental health professionals
(Participants wanted)

MHealth: Mobile technology brings healthcare home
(BBC report)

Telehealth saves a life in Northern Ireland’s water crisis
(Topical good news story)

Patient monitoring market at $3.4 billion by 2016
(Another Friday, another expensive report)

What mHealth will the FDA regulate? (US)
(Pointer to the future from the mHealth Regulatory Coalition)

Workplace healthcare–telehealth opportunity?
(An opportunity still being missed?)

Rounding up…
(6 items for the price of 1 – updated 29 Dec)

buddi: UK national TV telecare campaign
(View it and read the comments)