What a small but focused telehealth company can do in one year. Vitality, which developed and markets GlowCap medication reminders, reviewed their very busy year on video (on Vimeo) rather than going ‘old school’ press release or annual report. Among the… Read moreVitality GlowCaps' busy year in video
A dramatic story of a Haiti earthquake survivor using an iPhone medical application (unnamed) to self-diagnose and treat himself. Trapped in an elevator shaft at the devastated Hotel Montana, film producer Dan Woolley used his camera light to see/confirm his leg and head wounds, and used… Read moreUS Haiti earthquake survivor aided by iPhone medical app
Further to the Telehealth Solutions HomePod project extended to Fife item a few days ago, the HomePod now features on a video on a BBC news item. In fact, it has had considerable publicity on the BBC this week, including… Read moreVideo of Telehealth Solutions 'HomePod'
Aerotel Medical Systems of Israel and EcoTec, a Finnish provider of personal safety and tracking services, have jointly launched a new personal telecare service in Finland. The service, based on Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper personal safety and location system, enables the accurate… Read moreAerotel and EcoTec launch new personal telecare service in Finland
In second part of FRED, the SidekickStudios folks cast their eyes over existing telecare equipment and do not like what they see… who puts the assistive in technology? First part, if you missed it, here.
HomeCall, the telecare division of Coast and Country Housing, has completed a two-year £1 million upgrade to the Tunstall equipment in people’s homes and in its call centre. According to the press release the upgrade increases the reliability of the… Read moreHomeCall buys into £1m Tunstall equipment upgrade
Rob Havasy writes on the Center for Connected Health’s discussion page that while ‘the signs of a mobile health (mHealth) revolution are all around us’, the technology may be outrunning most of its potential users. The people who need it the most (e.g…. Read moremHealth for all? Not quite yet….
Another (US-centric) 2010 healthcare forecast, this time from consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the quaintly named ‘Squeezing the Juice Out of Healthcare’, has three predictions directly relevant to our telecare, digital and eHealth interests: Physicians and hospitals will scramble to adopt… Read moreAnother 2010 forecast
