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?
Just as in the early days of home computing, the world of wireless and mobile health (mHealth) is full of small and large players trying to get their products noticed and adopted as the dominant technology. They are having to… Read moremHealth (r)evolving through the chaos
Nexus TV has a set-top product that connects its owners to a variety of facilities, including limited internet, through their TVs. It is owned by Ocean Blue, a specialist digital TV software house based in Bristol UK and in Hong… Read moreNexus TV communication hub
The UK’s Telecare Services Association (TSA) has today announced that it will be working with the Continua Alliance (CA) to develop a ‘Telecare over IP Use Case’. Press release (PDF) Translation for the rest of us… ‘a scenario involving a… Read moreTSA and Continua to develop a Telecare over IP Use Case
[Following posted as a comment, but I’m giving wider exposure to it. Thanks ‘Mike’. Ed. Steve] Current legal standing as advised by Buying Solutions:“Dear Suppliers, As you know, the Telecare framework agreement expired on 1st June 2010 having reached its… Read moreBuying Solutions Telecare NFA update (UK)
Curious about the iPad’s ‘chops’ on the hospital floor? Check this article from the field in MedCity News by Dr. Henry Feldman, a hospitalist (North America terminology for physicians specializing in hospital medicine) using it on rounds for a week. Since the hospital’s… Read moreA doctor's review of hospital rounds with an iPad
At last week’s AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) Institute annual conference, Aetna and Intel announced ‘preliminary study results’ from their joint research on telehealth usage for congestive heart failure (CHF) . During a six-month test of the Intel Health Guide in a random… Read moreAetna, Intel Home Health Guide study announced
At the Continua 2010 Summer Summit, running alongside the ECH Leadership Summit in Belfast, Continua and Vignet have announced that they will begin developing an interoperable source code software library for various mobile phones. The mobile Continua Enabling Source Library… Read moreContinua and Vignet to provide reference interoperable software for smartphones
Philips has launched [at the Continua 2010 Summer Summit??] the market’s first ZigBee Health Care ‘reference design’. “Device manufacturers can develop a range of wireless telehealth devices, fast and cost-efficiently, for home patient and fitness monitoring, such as blood pressure… Read morePhilips: first ZigBee Health Care ‘reference design’
On 24 June, the Subcommittee on Health of the US House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs will hold hearings on ‘Overcoming Rural Health Care Barriers: Use of Innovative Wireless Health Technology Solutions’. The hearing will examine how the VA… Read moreVeterans' Affairs subcommittee hearings focus on telehealth (US)
