Can you help either of the following two Telecare Aware readers? Do you know of any interesting telecare or telehealth services in Paris or Istanbul? Jennene Buckley, CEO of Feros Care (community care/telehealth/telecare provider in Australia) will be visiting those… Read moreReaders' requests
There were 76 items posted in Telecare Aware in March 2011 on top of the 85 in February and 64 in January – and 6 already in April! If you are having trouble keeping on top of them all, check… Read moreItems posted in March
Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) has launched an ImagineNation Ideas Challenge, asking Canadians how they would improve health and health care through innovation in information and communications technologies. TANN: Canada.
Not on the British Heart Foundation (BHF) website yet, so local news of a BHF donation of £1.8m towards a £3.8m study of 2000 heart patients to improve their treatment compliance presumably came straight from Professor Morgan: Southampton heart patients… Read moreBritish Heart Foundation and Southampton monitoring study
Following up on an announcement we carried in July last year, that the Oakland CA-based Center for Technology and Aging had awarded five $100,000 grants for home-based care and disease management using telehealth, including one to the New England Healthcare… Read moreNEHI study update (US)
A ‘once-over lightly’ by Investor’s Business Daily of robotics that mostly isn’t, focusing on in-hospital ‘telepresence robots’ for remote consults–really motorized telemedicine carts–and the companies in the field: InTouch [TA 3 Feb] which has deployed a ‘few hundred systems’ so… Read moreYour Friday robo-fix: 'telepresence robots' (US)
More examples of ‘mHealth in low-resource settings’ (see previous item) is this AFP article on African mHealth: txtAlert reminders for patients at a Johannesberg HIV clinic reducing missed appointments from 15% to 4%; the MDNet phone network linking physicians in… Read moremHealth connecting doctors in Africa, reminding HIV patients
Some new terminology? ‘mHealth in low-resource settings.’ The idea is not alien to our readers spanning the globe–the use of SMS in health reminders and drug anti-counterfeiting (Sproxil) plus uses of smartphone telemedicine in developing countries (MIT Sana). But this is the first time that… Read moreLow-resource mHealth
