EMRs, or as the Wall Street Journal terms them, digital medical records (yes, more terminology)…great in theory, problematic in practice, according to Jacob Goldstein’s sample of physicians and administrators.  When you get down to the patient care level, it seems… Read moreCan EMRs cure healthcare? (Wall Street Journal musings)

As reported in Telecare Aware [22 December] about their UK introduction, Bayer will be marketing the Didget blood glucose monitor for juvenile diabetes in the US starting in May, according to this Business Week report.  It synchs with a Nintendo DS handheld and tracks readings into… Read moreDiabetes tracking Nintendo style: Bayer rolls out Didget in US

This is a pointer to the future item on something that will change the whole of computing including, of course, telecare and telehealth devices. In 1971 a professor at University of California at Berkeley theorised about a ‘missing fourth basic… Read moreHP's major computing breakthrough

Wondering where the recent FCC $145 million funding of broadband for the Rural Health Care Pilot Program went?  Here are the winning 16 regional telehealth networks, with a summary and funding levels.  See this article from Stories in Wireless Medical… Read moreRoundup of FCC rural broadband for healthcare

The ‘Health and Wealth Care Initiative for Vermont and New Hampshire’ proposes retraining of more traditional IT workers to work in telehealth.  Examples given are training the elderly to use telehealth technologies (which seems to be linked to broadband access–not a… Read moreTelehealth retraining for IT workers in New Hampshire and Vermont proposed

This short local (Memphis, TN) newspaper article introduces us to a company that’s been around since 1976:  StatLink.  Their specialty is real-time, ‘second set of eyes’ interpretation of neurophysiological readings during brain and nerve surgeries.  They also transfer remote data and… Read moreSurgical live telehealth monitoring