A Kaiser Permanente study in Colorado with hypertensive patients, using home monitoring and reporting versus a control group with doctor office visits, were50 percent more likely to have their blood pressure controlled to healthy levels compared to the control group after… Read moreKaiser study finds 50% improvement in healthy hypertension control
Every year worldwide, 500,000 women die owing to complications from childbirth. Of these, 10% are in Nigeria. A Californian health sciences student, Evelyn Castle, is doing something about it through an initiative called e-Health Nigeria and an ‘Instant EMR’ she… Read moree-Health Nigeria and the 'instant EMR'
Over at his blog, Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet has a wonderful acronym for the feelings stirred by FDA’s recent blanket declaration that health IT (HIT) software is a medical device and under regulation: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. (Just what we… Read moreFDA and digital health = FUD?
The Telecare Services Association (TSA) has announced that it has appointed Trevor Single as its new chief executive. Trevor will take up his post in mid-June. Press release with some bio. (PDF)
In last night’s ’60 Minutes’ (US-CBS) profile piece on Marty Cooper, the developer of the Motorola DynaTAC ‘brick’ cell phone while he was their corporate director, R&D 37 years ago, reporter Morley Safer segues gracefully into where cell phone technology… Read moremHealth featured on '60 Minutes' (US)
The interestingly named CollaboRhythm (sounds like a musical co-op) out of MIT’s Media Lab is aiming to connect patients with physicians 24/7 in a variety of ways. This avatar (on website) asks the patient a series of questions about their… Read more'Doc in poc' redux: MIT Media Labs' CollaboRhythm
A University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) engineer, Aydogan Ozcan, has created the world’s smallest, lightest microscope. The microscope builds on his previously developed imaging technology known as LUCAS (Lensless Ultra-wide-field Cell Monitoring Array platform based on ‘Shadow imaging’) and is specifically… Read moreUCLA engineer develops world's smallest microscope for telemedicine use
Jaan Sidorov, MD’s Disease Management Care blog provides an overview of a just-published article in Epidemiologic Reviews (subscription required) on ‘Text Messaging as a Tool for Behavior Change in Disease Prevention and Management’. According to the blog post, the article focuses on five… Read moreStudy: texting as mHealth tool
The California-based Center for Technology and Aging now has the final version of their study, ‘Technologies for Remote Patient Monitoring in Older Adults’, that we previewed earlier this year [TA 22 January], online. The report covers how remote patient monitoring (RPM) can reduce the cost of patient care, aid in fall prevention (via algorithmically-based detection systems) and highlights the VA Telehealth program. Their April newsletter also has a short study on a grant used to fund the Philips PMD med dispenser for a non-profit home health in Northern California. Details of the report and devices covered…
Many people attending the 2nd European Connected Health Leadership Summit in Belfast 14 -16 June will arrive by air. If, that is, the volcanic ash cloud doesn’t cause more cancelled flights. However, the European Connected Health Campus which is organising… Read moreVolcanic ash flight disruptions – great offer
