The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a/k/a the Lord of the Frequencies, released its task force report on mHealth last September. This recent two-part article from e-Commerce Times is written primarily from the wireless, not healthcare, perspective, but goes into… Read moreThe mHealth road map, as drawn by the FCC (US)
Back in September, when Vinod Khosla was predicting that digital health would frog-march physicians into Chateau Obsolescence along with buggy whip makers and battleship designers (while serving his own interests well), the Gimlet Eye felt quite lonely in its skepticism,… Read moreThe human vs. digital in healthcare–breaking the human connection?
Your Editors haven’t touched recently on technologies to authenticate prescription drugs. With counterfeits a huge issue in the developing world, we’ve written about Sproxil in Nigeria and India (confirming packaging code by SMS); Sproxil works with both the national government’s… Read moreDrug anticounterfeiting: a roundup
That seems to be the big bet that Dimitry Grishin of Grishin Robotics, an investment fund for robots and their developers, is making. From academia and expensive, years-in-the-making prototypes, he envisions inexpensive, mass-market robots which solve simple everyday problems through… Read moreIs robotics where PCs were in the 1980s?
We present two views at variance here, based on the headlines: From Pulse+IT, ‘Australasia’s first and only eHealth and HealthIT magazine’, Telehealth to go high tech for aged care: “University of Queensland researchers have received a grant for almost (AU)$1… Read moreIs Australian telehealth alive, dead or just comatose?
Seeing what is barely there: A team at Imperial College (London) has developed a low-cost, fast ‘ultra-sensitive sensor’ of the p24 biomarker for prostate cancer (PSA) and HIV. Nanoparticles in serum from blood samples, put in a disposable container, indicate… Read moreFriday telehealth news roundup
In early telecare days, we looked upon integrating fall detection as the ‘holy grail’ of our systems. A rethink of detection into prevention has led to several research projects around gait analysis and movement patterns. BioSensics’ PAMSys, a wearable sensor… Read moreNew gait sensor in test to prevent falls
‘Big data’ cruncher IBM Watson, lately in the news with oncology decision support [TA 10 Sep], announced a partnering with the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine to improve Watson’s learning process. The three-year project starting early next year is… Read moreCleveland Clinic, IBM Watson project to partner (US)
It’s a mood ring for your forehead…literally. When The Gimlet Eye gazed on this, she thought this was rather clever as it could warn others of her ever-changing moods. It could flash a yellow ‘Caution’ on bad hair days, pulse… Read moreThe Muse that tracks your moods
Updated 1 November: Announced undoubtedly at last week’s Connected Health Symposium, the McKesson Foundation last week awarded a grant to the Center for Connected Health for development of text messaging (SMS) and interactive voice response (IVR) to help cancer patients… Read moreCenter for Connected Health awarded grant for cancer pain management program
