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Month: August 2008
Medical Intelligence announces 2008 second quarter results (Canada)
Medical Intelligence, which produces the Columba GPS bracelet and the Urgentys device for lone workers, has posted a
Swindon PCT launches mainstream telehealth monitoring
Tunstall press releases back from a two month break. Like the press releases that claimed that Nottingham, Walsall and Hull are mainstreaming telehealth using Tunstall equipment, they still don’t tell us how they define ‘mainstreaming’. Is that every single patient… Read moreSwindon PCT launches mainstream telehealth monitoring
Woman uses life alert system to inform police of robbery
After a few stories lately where people were failed to be helped, a good news story, where a woman talked to her call centre after the thief ripped out the phone handsets. Item from West Palm Beach News.
XTend Medical begins remote patient monitoring program in UK
At last they tell us who the UK partner is… Find out here.
ICW selected for US telehealth programme
German e-health specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has been selected by US health network Coventry Health Care to provide the infrastructure for a home monitoring programme. Full story from E-Health Europe.
Ageing Britain: Pensioners outnumber under-16s for first time
So the UK passes another ageing milestone. Full story from the Guardian.
Congressional interest in telemedicine is at an all-time high (US)
Health care applications for the iPhone, text messages from physicians and even Nintendo’s Wii Fit video game are versions of telemedicine, according to Jonathan Linkous, chief executive officer of the American Telemedicine Association. Jackson Hole Star Tribune story.
Infection, Rejection, and Hospitalizations in Transplant Recipients Using Telehealth
Study with ‘unclear’ results. This is a full article, unfortunately rendered almost unreadable by the formatting. However, once you work out that some of the numbers scattered through it are references to studies listed at the end, it becomes a… Read moreInfection, Rejection, and Hospitalizations in Transplant Recipients Using Telehealth
XTend Medical raises $1 million
XTend Medical has raised $1 million, apparently to reduce the manufacturing cost base for its diabetes monitoring system. Press release.