This item packs a double punch. First, it is significant that the The Nursing Times – the reading for most UK’s nurses – is featuring a positive item on telecare and second, the 12 minute video it is built around… Read moreTelecare – the ethical debate

Two recent thought pieces on the Center for Connected Health’s websites are worth attention:

• Liz Boehm of Forrester Research on the differences between human and technology-mediated engagement for health support, how people use the two and actually how the line between the two is blurring.  How to mix the two in a care model?  Example: the primary-care home model from a Seattle WA-based company called Qliance: primary care delivered on a reasonable fee basis with high-deductible catastrophic insurance attached. ‘How Emerging Care Delivery Models Affect Connected Health’ (much pithier than it sounds!).
• Dr. Joseph Kvedar’s projections on ‘The Future of Connected Health (part 2)’ are ‘more and more’–data, integration with EHRs, entrepreneurship, education/coaching and a better care model in the patient centered medical home.  Quite sunny and ideal….devoutly to be wished….but while Dr. Kvedar believes this New Jerusalem will arrive when ‘healthcare reform ripens’, initial signs are not promising to this editor.  [Donna–short opinion follows]
  

This 2 minute 50 sec. video (having a minimum of explanation) is a demonstration by a US Army researcher of two technologies: a brain-computer interface and a head-mounted display (seen on the screen at left).  The brain-computer interface provides movement (forward, back,… Read more'Avatar' not far away: US Army Research brain-computer interface demo

Perhaps this is a ‘pointer to the future’ that we don’t want to see.  On Monday 27 Sept, the giant New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center revealed that 6,800 patients in the intensive care unit over the past two year had fragments of records made accessible… Read moreEHR major downside? 'Snippets' of hospital data leak online

Well, one competitor’s heard the bell, gotten out of their corner and is coming out swinging.  The BlackBerry PlayBook announced yesterday is slated for early 2011 release, price unknown. According to Fast Company’s lengthy writeup, the PB seems to have… Read moreTablet Wars Round #4.5: BlackBerry PlayBook

Is Buying Solutions (BS) as arrogant as it is incompetent? Or is its failure to respond to my [ed. Steve] requests for a statement just indolence or indifference to the concerns raised by a reader about the ‘both sides of… Read moreBuying Solutions' resounding silence (UK)

An item from the Tayside and Fife’s local paper should be of interest for all advocates of older people getting involved in empowering themselves and others by using technology in the future: here is a group of people who have… Read morePraise for Airlie Silver Surfers' telehealth role (Scotland)

Only a few days left for UK companies to express an interest in joining a trade mission to India in December. “The present Indian market with a fast growing private healthcare sector presents compelling opportunities for UK companies with innovative… Read moreHealthcare and medical technology trade mission to India (UK)