The 10 year loan to Philips, provided under the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility will be used to finance research and development (R&D) activities across a range of innovative healthcare projects, including image-guided intervention and home healthcare, in Europe. [Editorial emphasis]. Press… Read moreEuropean Investment Bank gives Philips EUR 200 million healthcare R&D loan
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (London) has launched, in partnership with iPLATO Healthcare, a new service to support people with epilepsy. Using web and mobile phone based technology, they will use text messaging to remind patients to take… Read moreNew service to support people with epilepsy (UK)
A project at De Montfort University, Leicester and the University of Lincoln is either genius or dotty. I can’t decide. Can you? Mobility scooters to be fitted with tracking technology to prevent users getting lost from the Telegraph.
“Hospitals, like most enterprises, have tried for years to keep only certain, approved technology inside their four walls. All other technologies were effectively banned. Yet, from cell phones ten years ago to iPhones today, these bans eventually break down.” Excellent… Read moremHealth: The Buzzword of 2009
This item is included to help those keeping an eye on Japan’s telehealth monitoring scene – Akio Koyama of Yamagata University and colleagues there and at Yamagata College of Industry and Technology and the Fukuoka Institute of Technology are working… Read moreYamagata University telehealth devices (Japan)
According to Health Investor, UK Chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget Report has revealed that the NHS’s capital spending allowance to 2011 has fallen by £500 million. Details. [Will NHS funding cuts kill telehealth developments in the UK before they really get… Read moreNHS capital spending to fall
