The Wireless Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) and Triple Tree (investment bankers) have announced a ‘call for nominations’ for the 4th Annual TripleTree iAwards for mobile and wireless healthcare. The three categories for the 2012 iAwards are: Operational Effectiveness – Best… Read more'iAwards for Wireless Health' applications open

Neil Versel over at Information Week takes a thorough look at Ford’s tweaks to its in-vehicle health monitoring system which was displayed to the over 153,000 visitors to CES. The Microsoft Sync ‘infotainment’ system is now mounted on the dashboard,… Read moreFord's 'car that cares' visits CES, Syncs up Healthrageously

[Ed. Donna realizes the following may sound rather cranky, but perhaps it is an antidote to and an observation on the post-CES afterglow that annually suffuses the landscape, and raises the mHealth fervor expressed on various boards and forums.]

It may sound far-fetched, but it is possible to live a long, disease-free life. Most of the conditions that kill us, including cancer and heart disease, could be prevented or delayed by a new way of looking at and treating health. The end of illness is near.

One can only wish. The Wall Street Journal is now in the territory of Life Extension–the bible of the mild hypochondriacs who are seriously into the science of longevity. But Dr. Agus attributes this to patient engagement–young patients…

Back in October 2010 Telecare Aware readers were raising doubts about the cost-effectiveness of North Yorkshire and Yorks’ PCTs procurement of 2000 telehealth units. [In fairness, not all the £3.2m project cost went to equipment supplier Tunstall. We understand that… Read moreNNY £3.2m telehealth project – negative evaluation hits local headlines

Qualcomm staged a second announcement at CES on Tuesday of the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize for the development of mobile diagnostic devices much like those depicted on Star Trek. While our readers knew about this when first announced in spring… Read more'Tricorders' galore: X Prize update at CES

Far from the hullaballoo of CES, the US Navy Office of Naval Research, which also supports medical research, announced the FDA approval of the first handheld, battery-powered medical device, the Infrascanner, that can image an intracranial hematoma in that other… Read moreFDA approves mobile medical imager for brain hematomas

Mrs Kathleen Cliff, aged 74 died in hospital two weeks after a fall. She lay on her floor all night until a neighbour found her. Her phone and pendant alarm (PERS or medical alarm button for our American readers) were… Read moreWill the coroner ask the right question? (UK)

Hands up who thinks it is a good idea to pay $6000 each for a videoconferencing system on wheels and then expect parents of young children to let it roam about their home under the control of a doctor or… Read moreThe Curse of the Were-Robot

…is Fast Company in this breezy article.  Profiled: EyeNetra to diagnose vision problems, Mobisante ultrasound, Zeo sleep monitoring (recent beneficiary of an investment from Johnson & Johnson), Alivecor ECG, Cellscope microscope, Withings scale (on a neat ‘bodymap’), more.  ‘Handheld hospital’… Read moreQuite bullish on Dr. Smartphone…