Whether this news is more due to the good sense of the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) or the ingenuity of the creators of the online telecare equipment prescription guidance (Telecare EPG) website – who just happen to be the TANN:… Read moreWales invests in subscription to Telecare EPG
To connect electronic health records (EHRs) there has to be technical interoperability and, on top of it, ‘semantic interoperability’ so that the systems know they are communicating about the same thing. So the experts are starting to fret about that…. Read moreEHRs and semantic interoperability (EU)
A well-put-together roundup of mainly mobile health for patient tracking and sharing, from Monday’s Boston Globe, with an emphasis on easy smartphone apps (for the 36% of those who have them) such as HeartWise, iTriage and WebMD, plus Boston-area companies such as Hea!thrageous,… Read more'Tapping into smart health' (Boston Globe)
eHealthInsider item written by Dr Jonathan Liberman, a Manchester GP who explains how a ‘telemedical’ ECG service has improved patient cardiac care while reducing its cost…”The pilot, which started in 2007, enabled more than 2,000 people to avoid a trip… Read moreTelemedical ECG service has improved patient cardiac care while reducing its cost (UK)
What was being touted as the healthcare marketing trend of 2010–text messaging for ER (ED [A&E]) wait times [TA 3 Sept]–has morphed into making reservations, and not for dinner at Ta-boo. In dozens of US hospitals, you may go online first and reserve… Read moreNeed the ER? Make a reservation. (US)
…but tsk, tsk, they should be a lot more. So said presenters at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation Health IT Summit this past week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. But what about reimbursement? The hands-on part of patient exams? While Claudia Tessier of the mHealth Initiative and Scott Simmons of the University of Miami’s telehealth initiative were able to find a way around various roadblocks, they are still wide and high for overworked doctors up to their ears in getting insurer payments from actual visits, wary of violating obscure state regulations, HIPAA security concerns and especially malpractice insurance liability (the last three not mentioned).
Better late than never, this free report is just getting some attention. It’s undated but, I’m informed, was published in January 2011. Supporting Unpaid Carers: The Benefits of Telecare (PDF) by the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services examines… Read moreReport: Supporting Unpaid Carers: The Benefits of Telecare (Scotland)
A thin-film feature phone capable of bending–developed by the Human Media Lab at Canada’s Queen’s University. Its flexible E-Ink display is 9.5-cm (3.74-inch), with a flexible printed circuit incorporating resistive bend sensors underneath. You can also use a built-in Wacom tablet and… Read moreFlexible 'paperphone' created
We noted in January the arrival of UK-based Isansys on the scene, but last week they introduced a new, wireless, body-worn heart and breathing monitor device called LifeTouch. Proving the advice that writers should throw away the first three paragraphs… Read moreIsansys Lifecare launches small body-worn heart monitor
At last! An item for the pressure sensor geeks! “The most common type of strain gauge consists of an insulating flexible backing material that supports a metallic foil pattern whose electrical resistance changes as the foil is deformed…However, the relatively… Read moreNew pressure sensor can stretch to twice its size
