Honda has been working on robotics and walking technology since the 1980s, and developed the Stride Management Assist system in 2008. The latest version developed by its ASIMO spinoff is being tested by Japan’s National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology… Read moreHonda's latest mobility assistance is not a car
Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya have developed a bathroom scale that can conduct an electrocardiogram and report back weight and ECG results at the same time. Will it ever fly as a telehealth device when there are simpler… Read moreExperimental weigh scale also checks your heart (Spain)
Editor Donna jumped on her terminology hobbyhorse [stabled with Editor Steve’s, TA 24 July] with spurs on when she read the Examiner coverage (for a general audience) of a panel at last week’s ‘World Congress on Telemedicine’ in Boston. Now… Read moreMuddling telemedicine and telehealth, Chapter 2
Also up in Boston at the World Congress on Telemedicine was a panel on the alternative world of funding called crowdfunding. “Funding From The Crowd that Cares: How Crowd Funding From Patients and Providers is Driving mHealth Innovation” panelled Alex… Read moreFunding and the wisdom of crowds
Research commissioned by the Telehealth Forum has found that the vast majority of people in the UK still have never heard of ‘telehealth’ or ‘telecare’. The research, conducted by YouGov, surveyed 2,054 adults (over 18s) online in the UK and… Read moreResearch indicates UK public has no idea what telehealth is
This month’s Telecare LIN Newsletter has just been released. The main document has been slimmed down to 14 pages as the previous large section with links to news items has been floated off into a separate one. There is also… Read moreJuly 2012 Telecare LIN Newsletter published (UK)
In less than a year The Carephone company has established a reputation for being the most creative company in the telecare market in the UK – its products, decorative pendant ‘skins’, pizzas on demand, GPS tracking shoe. Despite the fact… Read moreThe Carephone keeps the creativity coming (UK)
Earlier this month I (editor Steve) raised the question of the provenance of the 3ML campaign. No one has definitively pointed the finger or fessed up – although we have had a number of denials! However, reader Alasdair Morrison of Sandwell’s STAY service has pointed me to an attention-getting parallel between 3ML and the Government’s policy on obesity (The Public Health Responsibility Deal). He spotted it in a BBC television programme The Men Who Made Us Fat (Episode 3). In both cases it seems that Government has given the reins of policy to the industry’s large companies in return for promises of action to achieve a future target that is ill-defined and unassessable. The industry players are given Government blessing but it is clear that Government will be able to claim some of the credit if it succeeds and shift the blame if it does not.
The obesity strategy was driven by no other than…
The RP-VITA (Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant) robot for live remote consults is the result of a joint partnership between the busy robotics firm iRobot and remote presence telemedicine company InTouch Health. Built on the iRobot Ava, it… Read moreYour robot news for an Olympics weekend
A new care home providing dementia support is said, by the owners, to be set to revolutionise care in Britain and they are going to build a lot more. Anchor Trust – a not-for-profit provider of housing and care for… Read more'Revolutionary' care home for dementia support opens (UK)
