Striking a blow for common sense, West Sussex’s council and PCT have bought into a service from Wealden and Eastbourne Lifeline to which both council and health staff can refer people. Dee Christie, the county’s operations manager for occupation therapy… Read moreCouncil and PCT collaborate on telecare deal
An Ars Technica item predicts an technology innovation drought in the next few years owing to big companies making R&D cuts. Intel, 24 venture capital firms and 17 other tech companies want to do something about it with a $3.5… Read moreThe coming technology innovation drought
Laurie Orlov guest-posts over at Mobihealthnews with a bracing essay on mHealth hype and hysteria, ranging from CNBC’s ‘doomsday boomers’ bankrupting the world to GSMA’s new-found love of mHealth for growth ($6.1 billion by 2012, Datamonitor) and savings ($200 billion worldwide,… Read moremHealth: sorting the hype from the here-and-now
We haven’t heard much lately from Health Buddy, one of the early telehealth providers acquired by Robert Bosch Healthcare. Their most recent news, which surprisingly hasn’t received much notice, is their large-scale program for up to 6,600 Medicare beneficiaries in the Bronx, New York. The… Read moreBosch Health Buddy deployed at Montefiore Medical Center
The Huffington Post (or HuffPo) isn’t a usual source of eHealth information for this editor (Donna), but this report from their ‘Investigative Fund’ about FDA moving to regulate electronic medical records (EMRs) and HIT companies appears to be a primary report. “Over the past two… Read moreFDA considers regulation of 'safety risks' of health IT
Still early days for this pointer to the future item, but the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Nano Letters is reporting on development of a super-thin film they call ‘piezo-rubber’ –flexible, biocompatible rubber films for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting… Read moreGenerating device power from body movements
