Peter Kruger, on theMobileHealthCrowd site ponders the implications of the new UK coalition government for the NHS in general and NHS IT in particular. It’s an entertaining analysis. What Now For Wireless Health in the NHS?
Since taking on the top job in 2008, Carl Atkey, head of Hampshire-based CarelineUK, has been working hard to modernise and rebrand the community alarm/telecare service. Before 2009 CarelineUK was branded Cirrus Careline. Despite its size (it handles over 4,000 calls a day), it had kept a rather low profile, building up its customer base to cater for the needs of local authorities, housing associations, charities and property management companies in addition to providing a range of call response services to its parent company Peverel Group. As well as those, CarelineUK has also built up a strong base in out-of-hours building facilities management with over 500,000 service users and has recently developed lone worker and personal mobile monitoring services.
In conversation with Telecare Aware editor Steve Hards, Carl indicated that the company has plans to introduce…
A project run by McElwaine Smart that uses the Bosch Health Buddy system was shown on Irish TV news recently. From the following link click on the fourth item on the right to view it if RTÉ permits it to… Read moreHealth Buddy / McElwaine Smart on Irish national news
TRaC has added formal certification testing to the new ZigBee Health Care Profile within days of it being ratified by the ZigBee Alliance. Alongside the ZigBee Health Care Profile, it has added certification testing for the ZigBee Telecoms Services Profile…. Read moreTest services for ZigBee health care and ZigBee telecoms
Has the healthcare IT (read ‘electronic health records’) market reached its next turning point, as Christine Chang from consultants Ovum suggests? However, she bemoans that vendors are “still using an on-premise model and require licensing fees, while much of the… Read moreHas the healthcare IT market reached its next turning point?
Not before time, many would think, the European Commission is to simplify procedures for taking part in EU-funded research projects. Item from eHealthNews.
The Giraff, by Swedish robotics company Robotdalen doesn’t quite seem to me [Ed. Steve] to qualify as a robot, in that it doesn’t appear to have any on-board ‘intelligence’ but is controlled from a distance by visitors over the internet…. Read moreGiraff mobile in-home telepresence
This is an announcement that may be of intense interest to techies. Libelium opens access to Wireless Sensor Networks from portable computing devices with new Waspmote platform Bluetooth module.
Updating our 8 April pointer to the future story, the University of Florida test of a ‘smart pill’ capsule incorporating a chip and small silver antenna may be going to market in two years via a spin-off company (after FDA… Read more'Tattletale pills' update
