In this otherwise excellent article on the Federally funded ‘Money Follows The Person’ program in 29 states in the US that helps to transition residents from nursing home or other long-term care (LTC) facilities to individual or small group homes, restoring… Read moreMoving from long-term care to home–where is the remote monitoring?
We’ve been keeping a running narrative of various market projections in telehealth, eHealth and mHealth–the most recent being Juniper Research’s 2014 mobile healthcare global estimate of $1.9 billion–but if you haven’t seen and bookmarked Brian Dolan’s bar graph comparison at Mobihealthnews, you should. … Read moreForecasts, forecasts…where do they end for mHealth?
A paper presented at the 2010 Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles in February confirms what has long been suspected: people with pendant alarms (medical alerts/PERS) wear them less often than would be optimal for their safety. Researchers Andrea Taylor and Stefan Agamanolis of Distance Lab, in Evaluation of the User Experience of a Standard Telecare Product – The Personal Trigger (etelemed, pp.51-56) surveyed over 1,300 clients who were using the leading UK manufacturer’s ‘Personal Trigger’, as they prefer to call the pendant alarm, in North East Scotland. They had a 60% response rate and the abstract tells us that…
I suppose that ‘certified’ is much more widely used in the US to mean ‘approved’ than it is in the UK where its strong association with ‘certified insane’ (in old speak) means that it is much less widely used except… Read moreContinua's certified products list
A great quote from a telehealth user as the BBC picks up on Cornwall’s intended continuation and extension of its telehealth service roll out following the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) project. Previous Telecare Aware report.
Proteus Biomedical, best known here for ‘chip pills’ that monitor medication compliance (13 January, 9 February, more), just received FDA 510(k) approval for their Raisin Personal Monitor, a wearable device for remote recording and analysis of heart rate, physical activity, body… Read moreProteus Biomedical gains FDA approval for telehealth monitor
Picked up from Dr Lance Forbat’s blog, an example of how patient care managed from a distance using telehealth monitoring is protected even when a physical presence is suddenly and unexpectedly made impossible. IHS solution to Volcanic Ash and grounded… Read moreCardiologist beats volcanic ash flights ban with telehealth monitoring
The Vodafone Americas Foundation and the mHealth Alliance announced today that Sana, formerly MocaMobile, had won third place ($100,000) in the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Prize as well as the mHealth Alliance Award ($50,000). Sana was developed at MIT to enable… Read moreMIT's Sana mobile health platform wins $150,000 prizes
It paraphrases a 1950s sci-fi movie ad campaign, but it’s not fantasy. Expect that FDA will be regulating hospital and other caregiver mHealth (and by implication, all the ‘teles’, eHealth and the FCC’s favored term ‘eCare’) if they stray beyond the practice of medicine into developing, modifying or selling HIT that starts to resemble what FDA classifies as ‘devices.’ Brad Thompson presents his legal point of view in his latest article over at Mobihealthnews. (Our 25 February article on FDA and EMRs, with link to previous Thompson article here)
[Editor’s update 22 April.] Brad Thompson’s summary of his eight-article series, plus a preview of the eighth and final article, follows. It is reprinted here from his posting on LinkedIn with his permission:
In checking previous stories about the US Department of Defense and TATRC for the story that follows, this editor [Donna] wrote about a seemingly successful TATRC mCare pilot (20 November) with AllOne Mobile, a subsidiary of PA-based health management company AllOne Health. Two… Read moreAllOne Mobile zeroed out?
