Probably less dramatic than it sounds, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced last week plans to halt temporarily 45 IT projects, a few of which are telehealth-related, that are either behind schedule or over budget to assess whether it… Read moreVA suspends telehealth projects pending review

The London Telecare group held its first MarketPlace Workshop on Friday 10 July. The idea was to give members first handknowledge of new developments in the telecare and telehealth markets. The following companies presented displays of their new products or… Read moreLondon Telecare's first MarketPlace Workshop

Nordic Semiconductor is sponsoring the first ever Bluetooth Innovation World Cup and inviting its customers to enter their design concept ideas for innovative sports, fitness and healthcare applications based on the forthcoming Bluetooth low energy specification. Now here’s a publicity… Read moreNordic announces Bluetooth health innovation competition

According to mobihealthnews, “It’s been more than four years since Qualcomm first announced its plans to help launch a healthcare-focused mobile phone service, called LifeComm. Qualcomm and its (still) undisclosed partners recently decided that it was time to pull the… Read moreQualcomm pulls the plug on LifeComm

Cisco has released results from a survey of patients taking part in a Scottish telemedicine trial, showing that almost 100% were satisfied with the technology used to remotely assess minor medical conditions. [They don’t tell us what the questions were.]… Read morePatients pleased in Cisco's Scottish telemed trial

Yesterday evening I received in my inbox a request to add a link from ‘my blog’ to a site in exchange for a link back from it. I get these several times a week because Google considers Telecare Aware to… Read moreHow NOT to ask for a link from Telecare Aware

Goodnews story in local Dudley paper. And good to note that the PCT has sidestepped calling it ‘telehealthcare’.

According to a recruitment agency, Proton Healthcare/Pegasus – which, of course, it doesn’t name – is getting on with its strategy to market health monitoring devices in the UK through high-street chemists shops. (See: Proton Healthcare to target UK consumer… Read moreProton Healthcare moves its UK strategy on

Of clients using Pharos’ Tel-Assurance remote patient monitoring platform, 60 percent (those with the highest percentage of patients enrolled in the program) ranked among the best quartile of health systems nationally for low readmission rates following an admission for heart… Read moreHospital Users of Pharos Innovations’ Tel-Assurance: significantly lower readmission rates