In an anonymous item worthy of a Telecare Aware Soapbox, Wireless Healthcare, under its new name of theMobileHealthCrowd, questions the chances of the UK’s Connecting for Health continuing to be ‘a player’ in the Continua Alliance and, indeed, on the… Read moreContinua Alliance: will Connecting for Health stay the course?
The Nonin 2500 PalmSAT handheld pulse oximeter with USB is the first product to be certified to meet the Continua design guidelines. Nonin Medical plans to offer Continua compliant tools across its product lines. Nonin press release.
Not huge news in itself, but an interesting company with an interesting product – the remote monitoring Lifeshirt – previously mentioned in Telecare Aware, but the Vivometrics website may be worth a look if you have not seen it lately.
In a statement to Telecare Aware, a spokesperson for Philips in the US denied rumours that the replacement of equipment to Health Watch customers earlier in the year was a recall related to the FDA’s warning letter in February about… Read morePhilips denies Health Watch equipment recall rumour (US)
Health Level Seven (HL7), one of the USA’s national standards development group, has introduced a new guideline for the implementation of the Clinical Document Architecture – a framework for health care data exchange – in home health monitoring. It’s a… Read moreUS standards group HL7: New guide for telehealth data exchange
Well, it is according to this article in the EE Times. Actually it’s a useful canter over the telehealth countryside with an emphasis on what’s ahead. It puts the forthcoming Continua Alliance initial guidelines into context as a significant event…. Read moreTelehealth age dawning
On Monday, Telecare Aware flagged up that the large companies comprising Dossia have joined the Continua Alliance. The implication was that by pushing for consumer-initiated change their presence will further strengthen the world-wide standard-setting role that the Alliance is carving… Read moreGoogle Health to play a bigger part in Continua Alliance
Dossia is a non-profit consortium of several large US employers including AT&T, Applied Materials, BP America, Cardinal Health, Intel, Pitney Bowes, sanofi-aventis and Wal-Mart. They have united to empower their employees to make smarter, more informed decisions about their healthcare…. Read moreDossia to help drive consumer-initiated change
Sad, but true, I spent a chunk of Sunday afternoon browsing two ehealth-promoting sites with similar aims: “We aim to help professionals achieve the most efficient use of resources available for the provision of health services, through the use of… Read moreUKeHA and CST compared (UK and Canada)
A Continua Alliance vision paper subtitled “Looking back on the emergence of integrated person-centered health”. The idea, I think, is that you have stepped forward to 2015 and are reading the history of developments from the late 20th century until… Read moreConnected Personal Health in 2015: "Getting it Right!"
