Part of what has held back a wider use of telemedicine is hospital credentialing of clinical staff. [For non-US readers, read ‘ability to treat across state boundaries’] Today CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) was scheduled to publish a proposed… Read moreCMS proposes easing clinical staff credentialing for telemedicine (US)
Looking to publicize findings from studies you’ve conducted or discuss your tech expertise? The Mobile Health Expo, 19-21 October 2010 in Las Vegas, has opened a ‘call for speakers’ on several tracks (business, health applications, medical banking, military, care delivery, more). … Read moreMobile Health Expo call for speakers
New York-based Nyack Hospital is evaluating a telemonitoring system which combines RFID smart labels with cell phones to monitor medication adherence in discharged heart failure patients. In the Nyack study, Leap of Faith Technology’s (!) eMedonline system equips medication packaging with an… Read moreRFID/mobile phone for medication compliance test
Intel announced today [26 May] at the World Congress for Information Technology that it will be expanding availability of localised versions of the Intel Health Guide in Europe over the coming year. The Dutch language Intel Health Guide is available… Read moreIntel Health Guide to be marketed in rest of Europe
“The satellite-aided search and rescue technology pioneered by NASA is credited with saving more than 27,000 lives worldwide since its inception nearly three decades ago. Now the agency has developed new technology that will more quickly identify the locations of… Read moreNASA's next-gen satellite-aided person location system
Courtesy of 3G Doctor, video of a presentation about online consultation (in a US context) given by Dr John Bachman of the Mayo Clinic. To help you plan your time, I predict that if you get through the first five… Read moreEffective doctor consultations online (US videos)
It’s a big, big step from the pendant alarm to the ASRock AIWI – so big that I almost flagged this up as a pointer to the future item – but then, the AIWI (pronounced aye-wee) is here, now. Linked… Read moreASRock AIWI turns iPhone into motion controller
That’s Buddy with a ‘B’ and a ‘y’, not to be confused with the buddi GPS tracking device. Right, now that’s out of the way, we flagged up in January some developments under wraps that were codenamed Fred, now re-christened Buddy, being undertaken by the Sidekick Studios which style themselves as a social innovation company. Their mission: to solve social problems using the internet. “We’re not a consultancy; we make things. We don’t do the tried and tested; we like making angels in virgin snow. We’re not interested in the technology; we’re interested in what it can do.”
So what is Buddy? It looks like a radio, but…
