Highlands and Islands telehealthcare event report (Scotland)
Presentations and notes from the Highlands and Islands Enterprise Board’s summit on May 5th. HIE webpage.
Day: 17 June 2010
BIOTRONIK's tenth birthday
Ten years ago, BIOTRONIK [it always seems to be capitalised] conducted the first technical application and feasibility studies for home monitoring its pacemakers which sent an alert via an integrated antenna to the world’s first wireless, mobile patient device. Now… Read moreBIOTRONIK's tenth birthday
PCTs fail to develop dementia plans (UK)
“One in three PCTs [Primary Care Trusts] do not know how they will implement the National Dementia Strategy (NDS) and half cannot account for their share of NDS funding.” The surprise is that anyone is surprised, given the lamentable state… Read morePCTs fail to develop dementia plans (UK)
Telehealth: boom and disruption vs. the 'brick wall' (US)
No argument with Neil Versel in FierceMobileHealthcare this week that telehealth in the general sense is booming–in new innovations, applications and mobile/smartphone cross-platform distribution–worldwide. To date, these technologies, developed by small companies, have overcome credibility issues, forced some concessions on physician credentialing, reimbursement and gained the interest of major corporations. We now confidently speak of iPads and Xbox technology (below) applicability for healthcare. Study after study prove that telehealth works….
Xbox Kinect for healthcare?
FierceMobileHealthcare’s Neil Versel muses on the healthcare uses of the Xbox Kinect, the new motion/voice controller for the Xbox gaming system. [Follow above link to ‘see’ what it is.] It eliminates the handheld controller and step platform–a camera follows you… Read moreXbox Kinect for healthcare?