In a Healthcare IT News item, John Moore prods at what’s happening with Google Health, and its implications for Microsoft Health Vault. The opening paragraph gives the measure of it “Since its initial launch to much fanfare, Google Health has… Read moreIs Google Health heading for oblivion?
D-Link is a dominant market participant and price/performance leader in the networking and communications market and Intamac Systems is a market leader in the integration and networking of devices within the connected home. So what are they up to in… Read moreIntamac and D-Link demonstrate new generation home monitoring solutions
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According to Dr Pawan Kumar, Head of Telemedicine Department ay Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai who, with IT company Maestros, thought up the Blackberry-based device, “Heart attacks are the number two killer in the country. In 2006, we started the telemedicine department… Read moreBlackberry-Vodafone to detect heart attacks (India)
The previous Telecare National Framework Agreement (NFA) (CM/RSC/05/4376) expired on 1st June, but the tender process for its replacement (for telecare, telehealth and telecoaching) being undertaken by Buying Solutions (BS) has been held up “as a result of the General Election”… Read moreOld UK Telecare NFA expires; new one is delayed
Industry watchers in the UK will know that the folks at SupraUK, which supplies keysafes to most telecare services, are not usually coy when it comes to promotion (see TSA conference photo), so what are they up to now? We… Read moreSupraUK new product?
…The New York Times seems to think so. From their Business Day (not Health) section, NuPhysicia’s telemedicine connecting oil rig workers with physicians worldwide; Cisco’s HealthPresence high-definition hospital-to-hospital networks in Colorado, California and New Mexico; American Well’s physician-to-patient via webcam… Read moreTelemedicine–a gold rush on horizon?
Interesting think piece by Dana Blankenhorn on his ZDNet blog on how technology can improve care, but not necessarily make doctors more productive and save money. Examples: the above-mentioned NuPhysicia’s telemedicine setups on oil rigs (a touchy subject here in the US),… Read moreDoes technology mean more efficient care? Or just more care?
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s HealthPopuli blog (she frequently works with the California HealthCare Foundation) takes on the Towers Watson study of 661 employers on ‘healthcare reform’, and delivers the depressing (and underreported) news that 90% believe that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will increase… Read moreTowers Watson: 90% of employers believe 'health reform' increases benefit costs–eHealth as remedy?
This article (New Markets Advisors’ blog) contemplates the changes that scheduled cuts in Medicare (US) payments may have on the adoption of telehealth and telemedicine by physicians. It posits that lower payments will force physician practices to negotiate compensation by insurers for less… Read moreWill Medicare cuts help..or hurt…telehealth adoption?
