Andrew Carle, George Mason University (VA) professor and generally acknowledged expert on ‘senior living’, released his latest list of  ‘nana’ technologies (a term he coined in 2004–one can tell).  The first two are familiar to our readers: Vitality GlowCaps (med reminder) and Wellcore (fall detection). … Read moreTop eHealth for older adults picked

While research is going on to convert brainwaves to words to speech–for those who cannot speak [TA 11 Sept]— research is also taking place in the opposite direction: to non-invasively stimulate parts of the brain using transcranial pulsed ultrasound.  The research… Read moreNeurotechnology to stimulate brain function

Starting this fall in the US, the Dell Streak tablet will be available to hospitals and physicians as part of Dell’s EMR and mobile clinical computing product line.  What’s not generally known is that Dell Services is a major HIT player due to its purchase of Perot Systems.  This small Android tablet (5″) is beating the Cisco Cius (7″) to market [TA 2 July] and Dell Services is already in 350 hospitals.  No starting from scratch here.  According to ZDNet, the Streak is positioned to: 

Zargis Medical, the developer of the Zargis TeleSteth telemedicine stethoscope system, has signed an agreement with the Ontario Telemedicine Network (Canada) to test this system.  OTN is one of the largest networks of its type in the world with over 2,000 telemedicine systems… Read moreZargis remote stethoscopes testing in Ontario (Canada)