November is ‘Aging Gracefully Showcase’ month on healthcare crowdfunding site MedStartr. They are seeking US-based startups or projects which need to raise funds, awareness, and customers. According to MedStartr founder Alex Fair, “Aging Gracefully projects are ideas or programs that… Read moreShowcase your 'aging gracefully' telehealth project on MedStartr in November (US)

Cornish councillors, prompted by a large petition, have stopped for further reconsideration, an outsourcing of services that included significant telehealth and telecoaching elements. Here’s one councillor’s blog about it: Shared Services Halted. For some background published before today’s vote, see… Read moreCornish democracy slams brakes on IT outsourcing (including telehealth) (UK)

With the aim of reducing the number of patients presenting at secondary care, the telehealth service in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles is trialing the remote support of patients with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs). Labmate-online item.

Vancouver-based Lionsgate Technologies Inc. is launching a universal interface that transforms smartphones, tablets and laptops into mobile medical diagnostic tools capable of real-time vital signs monitoring. It will connect sensors through the universal audio port of virtually any mobile device…. Read moreLionsgate turns smartphones into 'medical monitors' (Canada)

The GPS Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching framework agreement is still current and, despite all the well-known problems with these agreements that Telecare Aware has highlighted over the years, someone else is planning another! The Yorkshire-based organisation YPOThe Lincolnshire-based Eastern Shires… Read moreAnother UK telecare and telehealth framework agreement planned – from Jan 2013

The title of this UK Times-related Raconteur item Technology is key to unlock healthcare cost savings sums up the UK establishment’s view on health monitoring technologies, even if critics in academia and the medical profession argue that this is still… Read moreTechnology is the key to unlock healthcare cost savings (UK)

Remote Patient Monitoring in Cardiology by doctors Suneet Mittal and Jonathan Steinberg “offers a concise, practical and current guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the existing remote monitoring technology and provides a framework for incorporating it into clinical practice.”… Read moreBook: Remote Patient Monitoring in Cardiology

Older people who have suffered a heart attack often do not stick with the drugs their doctor prescribes, although the medications have been proven to save lives, according to a new US study. Many heart attack patients don’t refill their… Read moreThe case for improving medicine compliance

Mobile health company AirStrip Technologies filed a lawsuit this week against mVisum over recently issued patents for remote patient data monitoring on iPhones, iPads and other smartphones. Airstrip sues over iPhone patient monitoring patents. MassDevice item. UPDATE 22 Oct: More… Read moreAirStrip Technologies sues mVisum over patents (US)