On 24 June, the Subcommittee on Health of the US House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs will hold hearings on ‘Overcoming Rural Health Care Barriers: Use of Innovative Wireless Health Technology Solutions’. The hearing will examine how the VA… Read moreVeterans' Affairs subcommittee hearings focus on telehealth (US)
If you’re in Belfast (N. Ireland, not Maine) on Monday 14 June for Continua Health Alliance’s Summer Summit & Plugfest or the European Connected Health Campus’s Connected Health Week [TA Events], drop in at the Black Box Cafe for a… Read moreMobile Monday Belfast–catch it on 14 June
Paul Williamson, head of wireless medical, in his Wireless Medical blog for Cambridge Consultants (UK) looks back on nearly four years of the Continua Health Alliance. In 2006, the goal was to have 100% interoperability–that is, any device with a Continua… Read moreWhere next for the Continua Alliance?
I suppose that ‘certified’ is much more widely used in the US to mean ‘approved’ than it is in the UK where its strong association with ‘certified insane’ (in old speak) means that it is much less widely used except… Read moreContinua's certified products list
A great quote from a telehealth user as the BBC picks up on Cornwall’s intended continuation and extension of its telehealth service roll out following the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) project. Previous Telecare Aware report.
How many Continua Alliance members are happy, we wonder, about its press release which referenced without comment the FCC’s coining of the unnecessary term ‘e-Care’? Continua Alliance press release PDF. (TA comment on the term.)
Late Thursday afternoon, after three-hour brain-bending ‘boot camps’ at the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit, a standing-room-only group of over 50 CEOs, company founders, VPs and other executives crowded into a lower level meeting room at the Hyatt Regency Chicago–without being served drinks and… Read moreAgeTek–Aging Technology Alliance–steps forward at What's Next
If you are heading to Las Vegas 23-25 March, or can get there, CTIA Wireless 2010 now has a large Wireless Health Pavilion located in North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The official list is only 25 or so, but 3G Doctor… Read moreTelehealth pavilion debuting at CTIA
O2 UK has appointed Keith Nurcombe, a former executive at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, to head a new mobile healthcare division. Report in Rethink Wireless. I don’t often make predictions, but I will here. I predict that we shall see Mr… Read moreO2 UK appoints to new mobile healthcare division
Sensor-based monitoring from the M2M perspective. This article is the first news in quite a while from Healthsense, a remote behavioral telecare system used in US assisted living and home care. Healthsense, like WellAWARE, has moved into basing the person’s everyday… Read moreSleepless sensors
