While in the USA the President’s health reform proposals have divided opinion even amongst his friends, and Medicare takes the first steps towards removing the barriers to telehealth, the UK’s NHS Direct has introduced as part of the government’s flu… Read moreUK's National Pandemic Flu Service the first true mass telehealth system?

A new (expensive) ABI Research study Wearable Wireless Sensors examines the factors fuelling demand for wearable wireless sensors as well as the short range wireless technologies that may be used by them. It also identifies the key players in the… Read moreMarket for wearable wireless sensors: more than 400 million devices by 2014

For readers who like to know who is doing what. Item from Cyprus Mail. By the way, did you know that the Chubb company was founded in 1818 by Charles and Jeremiah Chubb? That’s handy because the average sale of… Read moreChubb extends to Cyprus

“The major problem of the older person is, what are you going to do with the rest of your life? … when you ask them, 90 percent of the time people have no answer. And it’s not their fault. Society… Read moreHow the 'Old Old' can have best lives

Soliant Healthcare blog lists them as: Skype; Webcam MD; robots at a distance; eTime’s home endoscope; Vidyo’s HD telepresence without a dedicated line; Radvision’s video source linking; telemedicine via cell phone; Bluetooth heart monitoring. Item here. [There are clearly some… Read more9 killer (!) telemedicine apps

I’m always happy to see a fellow blogger pick up a thought (see: UnitedHealth and Cisco telehealth partnership) and develop it, as Laurie Orlov does in: Aging In Place Technology Watch: Cisco and telepresence: If you have a hammer, everything… Read moreCisco and telepresence: If you have a hammer…