Which of the 62 items posted in January’s Telecare Aware did your editors find unmissable? Telecare Aware In Review subscribers can find out here: Editor Steve’s picks for January 2011 Editor Donna’s picks for January 2011

Here’s another item [previous TA] on the matter of whether the planned GP-led NHS can deliver telehealth services, by Ade Bamigboye of the Mobile Flow consultancy. It’s a fairly objective brief analysis of the changing UK context for telehealth if… Read moreWill GP commissioners embrace telehealth? (UK)

Yesterday’s reports seem to indicate so, at several different stages from public to startup. An analysis of Epocrates’ IPO, Vitality GlowCaps’ acquisition, Massive Health’s massive ‘seed round’…and whither Series C financings? Epocrates, the medical applications provider of drug information for… Read moreBrighter days in eHealth financing? It depends…

The University of Hawaii at Manoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), the UH School of Social Sciences and the Alaska Federal Health Care Partnership (AFHCP) on Wednesday signed an agreement to jointly develop and field telehealth technology throughout… Read moreAlaska and Hawaii join for Pacific telehealth

A bit more substantial than a ‘video chat’ is this use of a 5′ telemedicine robot, dubbed RP-7, at the Physician Clinic of Baker City, OR connecting to specialist physicians in Boise, ID, over 100 miles away.  The mobile robot, directed by… Read moreYour Friday robot special: RP-7 in rural Oregon

Parks Associates’ latest brace of forecasts in their Delivering Quality Care to the Digital Home: 2010 Update tops 2010 out at $1.7 billion; with a projected CAGR (combined annual growth rate) of 27%. Mobile broadband will be the spur as… Read moreYour Friday digital health forecast: $5.7 billion in 2015

Federal Telemedicine News summarizes a Brookings Institution event held 28 January presenting their Center for Technology Innovation’s white paper on the challenges of HIT handling the enormous amount of medical, financial and genetic data of individuals, then turning them into usable… Read morePersonalized medicine and HIT

eWeek speculates on the impact of telehealth (really telemedicine, i.e. video consults) on medical practice from both the physician and the patient perspective. For the latter of course there is immediacy and convenience (from home or work); for the doctor,… Read moreTelehealth: more freedom for doctors and patients?

Another eWeek article on how patient check-in, payment and histories may become as self-service as checking in for your airline flight (only the exam won’t be done by TSA). One form is the Patient PassPort Express kiosk, designed by CTS (Connected Technology… Read moreAutomating patient check-in: kiosk or tablet?

In his State of the Union Address last week US President Obama emphasised the importance of the high-speed wireless coverage plan. “Within the next five years, we will make it possible for business to deploy the next generation of high-speed… Read moreObama promotes patient-doctor videoconferencing