This Guardian article, reporting on Edinburgh following Croydon’s example of setting up ‘virtual wards’ of people being cared for at home, is slow to get going but read on to where it gets into some of the detail. It’s a… Read moreVirtual wards linking home and hospital
NY Times story about the American Well service – consultations with a doctor online.
Could new web-based medical applications, coupled with the next generation of Bluetooth consumer medical devices, change personal medical care? That’s the question in a White Paper written by by Nick Hunn, Advanced Technology Director of Laird Technologies Wireless Systems “a… Read morePotential disruptive developments in the consumer medical market
There is something significant in this rather pedestrian press release. It’s the admission that, despite all their publicity and marketing efforts, it has taken Medical Intelligence (Columba bracelet, Vega GPS bracelet, etc.) until now to achieve its first significant revenues… Read moreMedical Intelligence announces 2008 third quarter results
VivoMetrics LifeShirt is described as “a continuous, integrated and wearable remote patient monitoring (RPM) system” and it is being used by Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) to learn more about lifestyle factors that may put children at risk for developing cardiovascular… Read moreVivoMetrics' LifeShirt to provide data for heart research project
The Project Lifesaver bracelet operates on radio telemetry rather than GPS. According to this item, some 805 public service agencies in 45 states are tracking missing people with the equipment from Project Lifesaver, a nonprofit headquartered in Chesapeake, Va. and… Read moreProject Lifesaver devices track lost Alzheimer's patients
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
OK, I’ve truncated the story a bit for the sake of a reasonably concise headline, so here’s the first paragraph of the press release: “Bayer HealthCare LLC confirmed today that it has reached a settlement with the United States Department… Read moreBayer promises to behave itself with Viterion TeleHealthcare
Well, kind of. ‘Intelligent’ monitoring of movements by analysing GPS signals from phones and satellite navigation units in cars is now possible. So it can reduce your blood pressure by helping you avoid jams? BBC News item. Thanks to a… Read moreTelecare for drivers
The Hungarian Government and GE Healthcare, part of the General Electric Company announced today a major new research programme to transform the care of older citizens. A consortium of private and public sector organisations has secured HUF 895 million (US… Read moreHungarian government funds major telecare/telehealth research: GE Healthcare to lead the $5.3m initiative
