Following Telefonica’s global announcement last week, the UK’s O2 operation has announced its moves: aiming to deliver better self care for patients and smarter working practices for staff, as illustrated in the press release (PDF) by the introduction of digital… Read moreO2 Health aiming to improve services (UK)
UK-based person tracking company buddi that has been making some headway with services for people with dementia, has just sold some equity to raise expansion funds and to bring in new expertise and contacts to the board. All is explained… Read morebuddi prepares for expansion (UK)
As many of our readers know, there are quite a few LinkedIn groups that have commentary and discussions on healthcare, mobile health, wireless health, connected health….with a liveliness unusual for any vertical. This continues a discussion that started in the… Read moreTelecare Soapbox: Android or iPhone
This interview with Barry Chaiken, M.D., chief medical officer of Imprivata network security and former chair of HIMSS, is unsettling for several reasons. The first is about halfway down (after the vineyard chat)–smartphones solve the problem of having a physician’s desktop… Read moreHow secure are mobile health devices? Not very.
Here in the US, as EHRs begin implementation in stages for the 2015 deadline as stipulated in the HITECH Act (iHealthBeat, 13 July and more), Verizon debuts its health information exchange (HIE) to consolidate patient clinical data over the web and translate it… Read moreVerizon announces cloud-based 'health information exchange'
