Dossia is a non-profit consortium of several large US employers including AT&T, Applied Materials, BP America, Cardinal Health, Intel, Pitney Bowes, sanofi-aventis and Wal-Mart. They have united to empower their employees to make smarter, more informed decisions about their healthcare…. Read moreDossia to help drive consumer-initiated change
The American Heart Association (AHA) last month recommended that patients should be screened regularly for depression because people with heart problems are three times more likely to become depressed. Pharos Innovations has technology that automates such screening by phone. Press… Read morePharos Innovations screens and identifies depression risk
Tunstall is involved in something that may be innovative…monitoring with RFID tags on buttons the items of clothing of people with dementia in care homes in Derby. This is to eliminate the distress caused when clothes end up being worn… Read moreTunstall buttoned up
Sad, but true, I spent a chunk of Sunday afternoon browsing two ehealth-promoting sites with similar aims: “We aim to help professionals achieve the most efficient use of resources available for the provision of health services, through the use of… Read moreUKeHA and CST compared (UK and Canada)
I’m pleased to say that a characteristic of these stories is that they are focused on user’s experiences. If you only have time to read one, I’d recommend the last. Home monitors improve health, behavior (US) Help is at hand… Read moreLocal stories featuring telecare and telehealth
A request for information from Dr Nicholas Robinson, Associate Clinical Director, Long Term Conditions & Telehealth, at NHS Direct. If you have any experience of providing telecare or telehealth monitoring in a palliative care context, please can you get in… Read moreTelehospice work in the UK
Radvision team writer Sagee Ben-Zedeff has taken the time to put together a useful overview of the use of various video technologies in telemedicine. A recommended read, with video links.
A Continua Alliance vision paper subtitled “Looking back on the emergence of integrated person-centered health”. The idea, I think, is that you have stepped forward to 2015 and are reading the history of developments from the late 20th century until… Read moreConnected Personal Health in 2015: "Getting it Right!"
Here are a couple of items that remind us that, for many people, telecare and telehealth are new concepts. Technology links patients, health care providers 24/7 ‘Pioneering’ telecare system helps Gwynedd’s older residents
A telemedicine project by the US’s State Department, IBM, and other public and private organizations has enabled medical specialists to treat patients in remote, medically underserved areas of northern Pakistan, some of whom have suffered for years from easily treatable… Read moreState Department and IBM build telehealth bridge to rural Pakistan
