GE Healthcare to Grow its Health Information Exchange Services by Joining Global eHealth Leader. Hmm…this could be relevant to remote patient monitoring…but if I were running a class on how to hide a potentially interesting story behind a wall of… Read moreGE Healthcare to grow its health information exchange services by joining global eHealth leader

If your reaction to ‘Vodafone launches signal booster’ is “So what?”, then read this pointer to the future item and think about how telecare and telehealth systems are currently set up in people’s homes.

“Advocate E-Health not for your sake, but your children’s. They will inherit the problems of today” (Senator Edgardo Angara in the conference keynote speech.). Good to see the pace of developments picking up in the Philippines. Press report.

A great round-up of telehealth developments in Pakistan and Asia, with lots of links to more information.

A team of University of Houston researchers “hopes to ease worries and frustrations by designing an affordable in-home health-monitoring system that will notify caregivers, via smartphones or PDAs, if their loved ones need attention.” So the existing technologies are not… Read moreHouston, we have plug-and-play telehealth

Oh dear! Oh dear! It looks as if, as relative newcomers to the field, Intel and GE have allowed themselves to be talked into investing in a ‘telemed/telecare house’ project… the kind beloved of academics but which numerous previous projects… Read moreIntel and GE develop Health House

Last Friday, McElwaine Smart Technologies held the official launch of its Telecare Monitoring Centre in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. Although based in Northern Ireland, the service will serve the whole of Ireland and government ministers from both NI and Eire were… Read moreMcElwaine Smart launches Ireland-wide service