Over on MedGadget are two days of dense-pack reports from the five-day FutureMed 2011 held at Singularity University (founded by futurist Ray Kurzweil and X Prize founder Peter Diamandis). Their mission is to ‘explore the exponential growth in technological advances of… Read moreWeekend reading: FutureMed 2011
Gecko Systems, last on BBC Radio 4 [TA 24 Nov] with the CareBot, has developed a robotic wheelchair they call the ChairBot, in conjunction with Imasen Engineering of Japan. It includes AI developed for the CareBot–automatic collision avoidance, room-to-room transitioning,… Read moreYour Friday robot 'fix'; ChairBot
You’d believe that in South Africa, one of the leaders in the ‘developing world’, the South Africa Medical Association (Sama) and the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) would cheer on telephone consults and pharmacy partnerships to improve medical coverage… Read moreNo, no, no! to virtual consults in South Africa
GE Healthcare US head Omar Ishrak moves to Medtronic. A change at the top at GE Healthcare in the US brings in GE Aviation Services VP Tom Gentile as President/CEO. Also a reorganization at GEHC creates a new Global Services… Read moreFriday corporate news
Continua Health Alliance on Thursday announced the public release of their 2010 Design Guidelines, providing wider access to Continua’s industry standards and specifications for interoperability of connected health systems. The press release does not specify how to obtain, and more confusingly, the… Read moreContinua Alliance releases design guidelines to public
Dr. Joseph Kvedar of Partners Healthcare/Center for Connected Health writes movingly in his blog this week about two programs for underserved groups that bridge the ‘internet gap’ through mobile. The first is a personal look at the Boston school ‘Step It Up’… Read moreConnected health and 'crossing the digital divide'
The just-published 2011 edition of The Social Life of Health Information, from Pew Internet and the California HealthCare Foundation, shows that 27% of internet users go online to track weight or other health indicators online and 18% go online to find… Read moreTracking, social networking rising for health information
The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), an international industry association dedicated to the advancement of intelligent homes and building technologies, is calling for project participants in developing and financing a research study on activities within the home that affect aging adults in… Read more'Aging in the Connected Home' research
A point lost in the hype around the $7.7 billion purchase of Skype by Microsoft was Skype’s gradual interest in the healthcare area, in evidence in their sponsorship of the mHealth Summit and international telemedicine initiatives less than one year… Read moreSkype a bad buy for Microsoft?
Google unveiled a home controls framework, Android@Home, that controls wireless or connected devices through any Android device. Premiered at Google I/O in San Francisco, an Android tablet controlled wirelessly connected lights and a simple home theatre: playing a near field communication-enabled CD swiped… Read moreLights, theatre…Android@Home
