I have received an enquiry from a reader in Croatia asking if I know any Red Cross organisations that run telecare services. I only know two: in Catalunya and Moray, Scotland. I understand that the Red Cross is active in… Read moreRed Cross telecare services?
Minus the WSJ snark, MarketWatch reviews various wireless health initiatives and pilots and finds them nearly ready for consumer prime time, with the usual caveats: the promise of cost savings and hurdles of insurance payment and provider reimbursement stall adoption…. Read moreMarketWatch reviews wireless health
Invicta Telecare has issued the following statement to its customers, letting them know about management changes it is undergoing: “Invicta Telecare has undergone a review of the way its services will be best managed within the Circle Anglia Group. The… Read moreChanges at Invicta Telecare (UK)
The headline may be doomy-gloomy to grab attention, and it does, but perhaps not in the way intended. An interview with Dr. Mohit Kaushal, director of health care for the FCC’s Broadband Strategy Initiative in the interestingly named GigaOM, jumps… Read moreWill US telemedicine be DOA?
Our link here is to the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ vendor presolicitation notice for ‘Home Telehealth Devices and Services,’ for the 38,000 patients enrolled in the Home Telemedicine program, which will grow by an additional 32,000 patients by the year… Read moreVeterans Administration presolicitation notice for telehealth
Express Scripts, the major pharmacy benefit manager, is nationally testing the Vitality GlowCaps medication reminder system, with a small test in April and a larger test this summer with patients using cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart failure drugs. … Read moreExpressScripts testing GlowCaps
The (UK) Times Online Health goes a bit over the top with the lead (smartphones are a long way from being a ‘doctor in your pocket’) and subhead (‘Will we all become iPho-chondriacs?’), but otherwise it’s a lively, current consumer-oriented overview of how… Read moreTimes Online Health: smartphones r doc in poc
