Telecare Aware Update Listings

Telecare service tender (Ireland)
(Business opportunity)

Arrhythmia remote monitoring device FDA approval
(Product news)

London Telecare Group opens to all comers (UK)
(For services and suppliers)

Personal Health Device Standards Update
(From the IEEE 11073 Personal Health Devices WG)

Med-e-Tel 2011 abstract submission extended
(Prizes available too)

Telehealth: from the general to the specific
(3 items for the price of one)

Sign of the times
(Aging and isolated people)

Fife Telecare Development Programme Annual Report 2010
(Good read)

Year-long study of EMR data errors announced; ‘meaningful use’ more distant? (US)
(Will they be regulated by the FDA?)

US/Taiwan study of physician smartphone usage
(Will they will, or will they won’t?)

Robots, avatars, video games–and healthcare
(Another take on ’emotional automation’)

iPLATO and T-Mobile in Czech Republic
(Industry news)

200 million mHealth applications in use, 70% interested in paying for them
(Your weekly forecast)

Telecare in assisted living communities (US)
(Includes new entrant, AFrame Technologies)

A request to TA readers with smartphones or iPads
(Help us improve your TA experience)

‘Tis the season…why healthcare marketers should be thankful
(Donna thought this was to be her last post before Christmas 😉 )

Robert Bosch Healthcare withdraws from Northern Ireland tender
(re-included in case you missed it on Friday)

‘TriageBots‘ for EDs (A&E)
(Coming to a hospital near you…but when?)

Mobile phone disposable diagnostics
(Diagnose anywhere with immunoassay technology)

Consumer engagement in diabetes management–not easy
(Ah yes, healthcare would be easy if not for the patients)

More on the RAND home health study
(We want more demos! We want more demos!)

Smartphone health apps to reach 462 million users worldwide by 2015: study
(A lot of chomping going on here)

Is high-tech ‘medical jewelry‘ effective in emergency situations?
(This could be crucial for someone you know)

Romeo: NAO’s big cousin
(“Wherefore art thou?” indeed)

Adoption and diffusion of technology for older adults
(Double edition of the journal Ageing International)

Wales invests to save in telecare
(Not quite what it seems)

Telecare Soapbox: What is telehealth doing in prison?
(An overlooked topic)

Chorleywood Health Centre still out in front (UK)
(The quiet leader in telehealth)

eHealth business models should take a page from…
(Hmm…are you over 18?)

Sensor-based epidemiology
(One for your medical statistician (biostatistician) friends)

Britain lags behind in the telemedicine revolution
(Telemed/telehealth in the public spotlight)

Save as PDF for iPad
(Update to Telecare Aware In Review service)

Telehealth in Medical Tourism
(A more interesting read than it sounds)

Snowed-in response centres (UK)
(Invicta well prepared this time)

Cloud computing gives Taiwanese telehealth an advantage
(Video in English)

After PERS, the MERS (India/Israel)
(Maybe not quite what it sounds like)

What does Antarctica do to your heart rate?
(Research news)

Home-based telehealth can transform global healthcare delivery,
but needs ‘buy in’: RAND Corporation study
(Confirms what we know)

Embedded computing and telehealth: the virtual panel
(Five leaders interviewed)

WellDoc announces DiabetesManager integration with EHR
(But which EHR?)

Are you finding it hard to keep up with it all?
(TA In Review LAUNCHED TODAY!)

Telecare and dementia: Reader’s request
(Can you help with a decision tree?)

TSA Crystal Award winner announced (UK)
(And it is…)

Telehealthcare – the terminology debate
(With video)

Telecare Soapbox: Evaluation of telehealth services:
How good is ‘good enough’?
(David Barrett, University of Hull)

New collaborations of note:
BeClose/Ankota; Healthsense/Meru Networks (US)
(Industry news – with implications)

Digital Health Summit @ CES 6-9 January
(Get your skates on!)

Presto computerless email opens ‘newsstand’
(Presto’s new funding model)

Profitable telemedicine?
(No! Don’t say it has to be profitable!)

Philips vs Intel/GE in home health?
(Industry views)

11 items posted since Tuesday’s alert:

Study on health data breaches: $6 billion/year
(Our own WikiLeaks?)

Tablet wars: EHRs and practice management
(Staking out the next frontier)

Why mHealth should matter to pharma companies
(Another expensive research report)

Bosch Healthcare in US: a change at the top
(Derek Newell, ex-Health Buddy, to pursue other opportunities)

EHRs a ‘key connection’ for telehealth device use.
(Practice Fusion inviting telehealth companies to connect)

IBM, American Well expand data security
(Timely move)

US Army testing EMR mobile apps; ‘military grade’ rugged tablet
(Army more receptive to telehealth than general population?)

Mobisante’s portable ultrasound profiled
(Has appealing price tag too)

FCC proposes new rules to aid wireless health research (US)
(Significant development for everyone developing devices)

Detroit hospitals adopt ER smartphone locator apps
(Detroit drives forward)

OptumHealth/American Well NowClinic telemedicine in MN
(What took so long? And where’s Texas?)

2020health report starts to get an airing (UK)
(This looks like a space to watch)

Australian Government consults on telehealth
(But does it?)

HomePod can now be rented privately (UK)
(Industry news)

Telehealth heart failure readmissions reduced to 3%: NJ home care study
(More for the evidence base)

“I’ve Fallen, and I Can’t Get Up”
(Historical item)

European mHealth Alliance adds Intel
(Not to be confused with the other mHealth Alliance)

WellDoc profiled in Wireless Week
(Will you “See the love”?)

Was 2010 mHealth’s year?
(A: Depends what criteria you use!)

When will the NHS wake up to telehealth?
(When? When? … Major report)

Sparkly new website
(No, not ours!)

Robotics roundup: automating prescriptions, elder care, robobathing
(More on care robots)

Vodafone’s Wireless Innovation project 2011 deadline looming
(Need some early funding?)

‘Enchanted objects’? And don’t forget the robots.
(Are smartphone health apps going to annoy rather than help?)

‘Super ambulance’ to be licensed by LifeBot (US)
(Hmm…)

NY Times visits telehealth, thoroughly but damply
(Ambivalent but thorough)

mHealth to $1.7 billion by 2014: Chilmark Research
(Another holiday, another forecast)

K-SERA for NAO (Video)
(Cute little robots)

UK’s Vision for Adult Social Care
(Heard it all before?)

Expanding telemedicine services in the Pacific (Audio)
(Radio interview)

Philips’s remote monitoring business strategy
(Still trying to work out what they are up to)

Welsh demonstrator projects update
(Good news)

‘Connected healthcare’ panel at NY MIT Enterprise Forum
(Were you there?)

Telecare monitoring profiled by CNN
(Wishing it were less formulaic)

DoD health IT plans need work, too (US)
(Inter-departmental squabbling)

Test of cell phone based blood pressure monitoring doubles improvement
(But which test, by whom, where?)

Online doc services profiled in USA Today
(Credentialing problems and a horror story)

TSA 2010 Conference reports
(Further updates since yesterday; A request and reflections)

Microwaves could replace electrodes for monitoring vital signs
(Pointer to the future item)

AMIA Informatics 2010 Year in Review
(Items for the evidence base)

More people in UK with undiagnosed COPD than previously thought
(According to a survey)

Aerotel GeoSkeeper–first US viewing
(Will be interesting to hear what readers make of it)

Tablet wars: 20 iPad competitors to watch and definitive
review of Galaxy Tab
(Continuing developments)

Bosch Healthcare in US: interesting moves too
(Reaction to observation from the TSA conference)

WSD sites enrol just one patient in ten (UK)
(Lifting a little more of the veil on the WSD)

500m people using healthcare mobile applications in 2015
(Expensive report alert)

Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine (Video)
(Interesting mhealth presentation)

Light-emitting biomedical tattoos and more
(Pointer to the future)

Mobile phone ‘chip’ for STD self-testing (UK)
(Pointer to the near future)

News from mHealth Summit: Wednesday
(Eight more updates)

O2 Health announces first NHS deals
(Industry news)