One of the many panels on mobile health at Mobile World Congress (Thursday has a full track) discussed how to best develop the potential of mHealth. McKinsey & Company’s key study of 3000 households in India, China, South Africa, Brazil and the… Read moreBarcelona: growing the mHealth 'ecosystem'
New alliances: The formation of the Wholesale Applications Community by 24 major global telcoms and three manufacturers (LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson) to build an open platform for delivery of mobile and internet applications. This will certainly impact healthcare. Release (FierceWireless) Optimistic predictions… Read moreHealthcare highlights @ Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
WebMD’s free Medscape Mobile for iPhone and iPod Touch has been upgraded with a new multimedia clinical reference that includes medical images and procedure videos. This is in addition to thousands of in-depth clinical reference articles and information on over… Read moreWebMD upgrades Medscape Mobile
We are still looking for sponsorship support (perhaps split between a few companies) to enable Donna or I to report each day from forthcoming conferences that we think will have significant content for Telecare Aware readers. See the Event Report… Read moreSponsorship Opportunities
I hate to think that you may be unable to keep up with Telecare Aware postings if your laptop is stolen, so take a look at this Locate a stolen laptop with Prey video, from TechRepublic.
The McRoberts DynaPort Hybrid was developed through the EU-funded Sens Action-AAL project for remote mobility monitoring technology. The system comprises a waist-worn triaxial piezocapacitive accelerometer and triaxial gyroscope and online monitoring software. The company believes that the system can help… Read moreMcRoberts DynaPort Hybrid (Netherlands)
According to Healthcare Equipment and Supplies, Age Concern and Help The Aged are selling Aid Call – apparently to the existing management. The background story is labyrinthine but not ultimately interesting unless you work for them. Are you sitting comfortably? Once upon a time…
Amber is a new telecare-type service being provided by curiously-named security and home automation company ‘Locked Up Home Security’. It is great to integrate the security, automation and telecare but, as you will see from the video below, it is… Read moreAmber: New kid on the UK telecare block
Revelation in eHealthEurope: “Jaakko Aarnio, a project officer in the European Commission’s Information Society and Media directorate, offered an eye-opening revelation about the EC’s mobile healthcare policy recently. “We don’t have a policy now,” Aarnio told an international networking conference… Read moreEurope 'has no mobile health policy'
Texas Instruments and S3 Group have announced they have constructed the first Continua Certified USB-enabled platform for building agent healthcare devices. The significance is that it “will enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to bring personal health devices to market quicker… Read moreS3G and TI to help speed up device development
