Diabetes is associated with a three-fold increased risk of dementia in older people with memory loss, a study at King’s College London suggests. If that’s correct, telehealth monitoring to help people control their diabetes may have a double benefit. HealthcareRepublic… Read moreDiabetes linked to risk of dementia
First part of an article from AlphaGalileo about the EU-funded SensAction-AAL project, focusing on comments by Lorenzo Chiari, a researcher at the University of Bologna, Italy. “Patients’ movements, picked up by the accelerometers and gyroscopes, can be translated into feedback… Read moreTechnological safety net for fall-prone elderly
The Vitalsens wireless health monitor of Belfast-based Intelesens, a University of Ulster spin-out company, has gained a CE marking. The Vitalsens device can monitor heart rate, ECG, temperature and levels of activity from a disposable electrode patch in the chest… Read moreVitalsens device CE marking (NI)
Do you really know what nanotechnology means? Trusting that our readership will not find this tangential to our focus, this Opinion article in Friday’s Wall Street Journal (no subscription required to view) on the ‘father of nanotechnology’, Richard Feynman (who… Read moreWhat's it all about, nanotechnology?
This week’s In Business on BBC Radio 4 (available to listen to via the internet) looks at whether the increasing number of old people that will have to be supported by a shrinking younger workforce is a threat to the… Read moreGE Healthcare features in BBC radio programme
A insightful article by Pauline Chen, M.D. in The New York Times explores the willingness (or more accurately, the lack) of physicians and nurses to adopt telemedicine–video conferencing and data transfer–for consults and even to perform procedures. She expands upon the recently published… Read more'Virtual visits'–acceptable to healthcare professionals?
Home care has traditionally been slow to embrace PC-driven or mobile solutions, so this is cheering news. CellTrak, a US company which has developed a mobile platform for tracking home care scheduled visits, providing client-specific care plans to aides and… Read moreCellTrak home care software expanding in Canada
As CES 2010 begins, Vigilance, a remote monitoring software program for iPhones that was demonstrated by Craig Barrett of Intel at his keynote, is being released to market by a Birmingham, AL company, Acuitec. Originally developed by Vanderbilt Medical Center… Read moreNew iPhone software for critical care video, vital signs monitoring
The mHealth Initiative has published a schematic of twelve ‘application clusters’ on their website. Their theory is that applications, no matter how diverse, can be grouped by type, e.g. point of care documentation, professional communication. They are inviting comments from solution… Read moremHealth application clusters
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