Your must-read for the weekend is over at Aging in Place Technology Watch. Worried about long adoption cycle? Trying to reach both a senior housing and consumer market? Infrastructure worries? Who’s looking at alerts (or data) and does it add to (not decrease)… Read morePrice right, partner often: sound marketing advice
A free open house is being held on 30 June in the Boston area (Waltham) to introduce a new healthcare technology working group for New England: the Collaborative Care Technology Working Group (CCTWG). Thanks to Anne Marie Biernacki’s post on the LinkedIn Wireless Health group. Her post follows.
WellPoint, the largest health benefits company in the US, announced an agreement with American Well to adopt their Online Care physician-to-patient webcam/telephone service at AHIP 2010. It will be available in ‘select markets’ (presumably TBD) in 4th Quarter 2010. Release. At the Health 2.0… Read moreAmerican Well adds WellPoint (US)
UnitedHealth Group, which serves more than 75 million people in the US, is rolling out a telemedicine initiative called Connected Care which they describe as the first nationwide network that connects patients to primary care physicians, specialists and hospitals. Using… Read moreUnitedHealth Group’s telemedicine initiative in national rollout (US)
Following on to our earlier and more hopeful report [TA 26 May], the change in staff credentialing rules that would facilitate telemedicine by permitting a hospital to rely on a partner facility or even a third party to furnish credentialing and… Read moreEasing of hospital staff credentialing for telemedicine delayed (US)
Presentations and notes from the Highlands and Islands Enterprise Board’s summit on May 5th. HIE webpage.
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
“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)
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….
