Telecare Aware Update Listings

Coast and Country HomeCall (UK)
(Breath of fresh air press releases)

Telecare – the ethical debate
(Good video – US readers please note)

Wireless tech changing global health–fast overview
(Well-written roundup for non-healthcare audience)

Personal Commentary: mHealth Conference and Expo, Dubai
(An attendee’s report for TA)

Center for Connected Health thought pieces
(Waning: includes rant by Donna!)

‘Avatar’ not far away: US Army Research brain-computer interface demo
(Short video may leave you giddy)

EHR major downside? ‘Snippets’ of hospital data leak online
(A ‘pointer to the future’ that we don’t want to see)

UK Health Minister Paul Burstow flags up telecare
(But is the focus on cost saving a positive one?)

Tablet Wars Round #4.5: BlackBerry PlayBook
(Blackberry comes out swinging)

Buying Solutions‘ resounding silence (UK)
(Readers with BS contacts please note)

Praise for Airlie Silver Surfers‘ telehealth role (Scotland)
(Empowered users here and now)

Healthcare and medical technology trade mission to India (UK)
(Urgent if interested in doing business there)

iTriage app guides you to healthcare
(Houston, we have an emergency…)

Indian company uses iPad to screen for birth defects
(Helping experts monitor pregnancies)

MIT’s students continue development of Sana telemedicine
(Working in India and the Philippines)

Telemedicine’s shaky start in South Africa
(But at least it’s a start)

Orange promises NHS savings
(From mobile messaging)

Google Health revived
(Not a zombie after all!)

The Future of Patients
(Clever video)

Med-e-Tel 2011 Preview
(Conference news)

Funding for telemedicine projects in rural Wales
(Good news for Wales)

Robotics and stroke #2
(Or ‘sroke’, even)

Broadband access Federal grants (US)
(US ‘stimulus’ funding non-stop BTOP)

‘Killer app’ mHealth + EHRs–Deloitte
(Don’t you love killer health apps?)

Your robot news for the weekend
(Two videos)

Q: What’s the difference between an African Elephant and ECCH?
(Northern Ireland’s fiasco -again)

Digital Wellbeing Conference (UK)
(Update – next week reminder)

Now a $2,000 ‘EDA’ for hospitals from Motorola
(Pricey entry into the hospital data race)

Technologies key in preventing unplanned hospital readmissions: report
(More for the evidence-base)

Home care: reasons why *not* to adopt telehealth (US)
(Refreshingly frank – and disappointing)

PwC study finds physicians going mobile
(Some reasons to be cheerful…)

Top eHealth for older adults picked
(List of ‘nana’ technologies)

Neurotechnology to stimulate brain function
(Complements the ‘to words to speech’ item last week)

Tablet Wars Round #3: Dell positioning Streak tablet for healthcare
(Android tablet already in 350 US hospitals)

Zargis remote stethoscopes testing in Ontario (Canada)
(Zargis continues its roll)

DH personal health budgets Learning Network: new site (UK)
(Update)

Ofcom report: Next Generation Services for Older and Disabled People
(Find out if it’s worth reading)

CUHTec T-cycle Service (UK)
(‘cycle’ as in ‘recycle’, not ‘bicycle’)

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and the BSFA
(Press release goes some way to explaining why)

“Aloha, robot, mon chéri!”
(More for the robots in care file)

A patient wish list
(Does it match your wish list?)

Thoughts to speech
(Pointer to far future)

Simpla Phone: New UK product
(Does it meet the T&M test? See comment)

Mobile phones no silver bullet for Africa
(One from the University of the Bleedin’ Obvious?)

US Northwest Region Telestroke Survey results
(Hopeful signs of development)

Three forthcoming sponsorship opportunities
(Telecare/telehealth suppliers please note!)

“We have not announced the closure of NHS Direct” — Lansley
(Lansley takes a robust line)

NHS Direct denies demise (UK)
(But doesn’t answer the questions about the BSFA)

Invicta first to achieve European Standard in alarm monitoring (UK)
(Congrats)

Gateshead Council offers free telecare trials (UK)
(So it looks like its neighbours’ offer was successful)

Intel buys Infineon Wireless Radio Chip Unit
(mHealth implications?)

The realities of telecare
(In Stockton on Tees, UK)

Japan’s centenarians falling through the cracks
(And not a robot in sight)

eHealth solved: you just need the right multiplier
(Bullish eHealth predictions explained)

Everything you wanted to know about telehealth…
(UK Toolkit: Reader reviews welcome)

Another success for Tunstall
(“A small step for man”)

Now text messaging for…emergency room wait times
(The healthcare marketing trend for 2010??)

NHS Direct to be ‘scrapped’ within lifetime of BSFA
(Surprise announcement)

Smartphone-based remote monitoring for epilepsy
(Development in a difficult area for monitoring)

Mobile Health Expo–session information
(Conference info)

AirStrip OB enters home health with Alere Health
(For monitoring pregnant women)

The ultimate baby monitor?
(Biosensor textiles getting ‘out there’)

Dishing it out on mHealth hype
(Self deprecating item by Eric Dishman of Intel)

Clinician acceptance of telehealth
(Reminder of importance of user-driven design)

Physician adoption of smartphones: HIT headache
(Problem for hospital IT departments)

Sugar in your tea…or battery?
(Pointer to the future)

Remote monitoring + home health management = FBQ answers?
(Resolving the four big questions)

Virtual visits under the palm trees: InteractiveMD goes video
(Ambitious development)

Modernising healthcare in Armenia and Karabakh
(Telemedicine and teleconsultation)

Is this India? Yes it is!
(Surprise at the level of sophistication)

Life-changing healthcare technology (UK)
(One of the better stories for ages)

Carmarthenshire Telecare to be featured on S4C (Welsh TV)
(And a nice blog post)

iPad – love ’em or hate ’em
(We whip up two more iPad stories)

A small doubt on text messaging effectiveness
(Devise your own reminder system instead?)

iBrain diagnoses sleep disorders; MIT recognition
(And the top young innovators of 2010)

Healthsense gains fresh financing for telecare system
(Encouraging US industry news)

Satellites used to track mentally-ill violent criminals (UK)
(buddi-based tracking pilot scheme)

Business Week gets mHealthy
(Big players making investments but no one making money)

Knowsley telehealth project saves £185,000 in 14 months
(More evidence of telehealth effectiveness)

TeleMedCare appoints Interim CEO
(Industry news)

Three UK telecare telehealth jobs advertised
(In telecare and telehealth)

Intel‘s purchase of McAfee: what it means to healthcare
(Inspecting their footfall)

NPR’s acid flashback to telecare, 2006 (US)
(National Public Radio makes a discovery)

BRIC telemedicine market forecast
(If you need an ‘exotic forecast’ fix)

‘Second’ remote monitoring market larger than first?
(Juniper Research re-works its old study)

Telemedicine briefs (US)
(2 items re federal funding)

Boots pilots TeleMedCare telehealth equipment in stores
(Interesting UK development)

Clarification of the BS framework three-year qualification requirement
(Telecare Soapbox follow-up)

Framework agreement. Serious questions that need answers
(The most serious of which are still unresolved)