Robots are a favorite topic here at Telecare Aware, if you haven’t noticed Down the river from Ed. Donna is the first, to our knowledge, automated pharmacy, which is at NYU’s Langone Medical Center. It utilizes advanced robotic equipment… Read moreRobotics roundup: automating prescriptions, elder care, robobathing
Have a wireless project that needs some very early funding? Vodafone’s 2011 Wireless Innovation Project is closing fast for submissions–15 December. On offer: $600,000 in funding, plus a separate $50,000 award in conjunction with the mHealth Alliance (release). [Update: Open to US companies… Read moreVodafone's Wireless Innovation project 2011 deadline looming
Wide ranging blogpost from Susannah Fox on e-Patients.net (Society for Participatory Medicine) combines ’emotional automation’ (Dr. Joseph Kvedar video from Connected Health Symposium) and ‘enchanted objects’ (David Rose of Vitality GlowCaps at Mayo Transform 2010). Summarizing a 19:34 video is tough… Read more'Enchanted objects'? And don't forget the robots
LifeBot, a Phoenix AZ emergency telemedicine/life-support systems company, has announced ‘an Option Agreement pursuing world-wide exclusive licensing rights to DREAMS(tm)’, a ‘super ambulance’ (Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services) developed by principals at University of Texas, Texas A&M in conjunction… Read more'Super ambulance' to be licensed by LifeBot (US)
The New York Times has a rather ambivalent but quite thorough article on ‘what some experts call telehealth’ (uh, NYT, if it’s vital signs monitoring, it is telehealth!). ‘Ambivalent’ because the writer throws a bit of a wet blanket on it to start… Read moreNY Times visits telehealth, thoroughly but damply
A holiday week here in the US, an early release of a forecast. Chilmark Research’s mHealth @ $1.7 billion by 2014 takes on enterprise usage via smartphones and tablets for analyst Cora Sharma’s paper, mHealth in the Enterprise: Trends, Opportunities and… Read moremHealth to $1.7 billion by 2014: Chilmark Research
Why is editor Steve not more excited by the publication last week of the UK Government’s new 42-page consultation paper Vision for Adult Social Care? (PDF) After all it does reference the benefits of telecare and telehealth. Perhaps it’s that… Read moreUK's Vision for Adult Social Care
A few minutes’ Radio Australia interview with Dr John Menzies, a member of the Global Tele-Health 2010 conference organising committee for the Australasian Telehealth Societies. He talks about the different kinds of telemedicine services available in the Pacific region, including… Read moreExpanding telemedicine services in the Pacific (Audio)
Editor Steve’s take on Philips’s strategy in the UK remote monitoring scene after the TSA conference last week was that it is playing something of a waiting game. A Bloomberg article delves into its strategy and highlights a few other… Read morePhilips's remote monitoring business strategy
Three demonstrator projects in Wales testing new ways of managing chronic conditions including use of predictive risk software and telehealth have reported NHS savings of at least £2.2 million in the last year. More info from E-Health Insider.
