‘The studies of tens of thousands of patients show the value of e-care and frankly, we don’t need “further study” and decades and billions of dollars more before implementing e-care models that are already here today. We simply don’t have
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Monthly Archives July 2010
Business briefs for 30 July
As we end the week and the month of July (where oh where did it go?), here's more for your weekend reading:
- Convex Portugal has selected AMD Global Telemedicine to integrate their peripherals (stethoscope, camera and illumination for DICOM imaging) into their primary care and hospital-based Healthpoint system. The initial focus is improving care in rural Portugal. AMD release.
- San Diego-based medical device company GlySens and the University of California-San Diego have developed an implantable wireless sensor that takes blood glucose readings. They are urging that it move in FDA trials from mice to men. If this works, possible end to pinpricks and manual readings. iHealthBeat, 'New blood glucose monitor...' San Diego-Union-Tribune.
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Take part in FAST's telecare survey (UK only)
The Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST) is running a survey to evaluate education and training for installers of telecare and telehealth technologies In the UK. There are two parts – one for installers themselves – go here – and one
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Friday extra: Physicians and their smartphones–what is the real adoption?
No Friday here at TA’s New York office would be complete without a projection or prediction, most of which are treated to a gimlet eye. By now our readers have heard about the 94% of US physicians who have smartphones
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July's Telecare LIN eNewsletter published
This month’s eNewsletter (funded by the UK’s Department of Health) focuses on proposed changes to the commissioning of NHS services with lots of links to related documents; presentation slides from the Whole System Demonstrator Event in Newcastle, and a new
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There's good news *this* Friday!
In contrast to last Friday’s ‘hash’ of an article, the New York Times has not one, but two worthy articles on monitoring technologies. For your weekend reading: ‘Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents’ profiles real families using (in order) GrandCare‘s behavioral/telehealth/connectedness system (Trillium; see
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Center for Technology and Aging grants awarded
This week, the Oakland CA based Center for Technology and Aging awarded five $100,000 grants for home-based care and disease management using telehealth to the Sharp Healthcare Foundation (reducing readmissions via home care), New England Healthcare Institute (ExpressMD Electronic House Call), AltaMed Health
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Another doc and his apps (UK)
A follow up to our article on doctors and their iPhone apps [TA 20 July]. Dr. Neil Paul of Cheshire has already developed several iPhone apps (iCalcRisk cardiac risk calculator, iMCQ for medical students, A2Z of Dermatology), is IT head
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FCC, FDA agree…to understand. And regulate. (US)
This past week, at the beginning of a two day conference on wireless medical technology, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg signed a memorandum of understanding and released a joint statement of principles. This rather vague set of
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GrandCare introduces HomeBase, VRI partnership
Whither telecare? At the cutting edge, it’s more and more comprehensive. In GrandCare’s new HomeBase system, we see converging telecare, telehealth and even ‘social connectedness’ for older people at home. Like its high-end Trillium system (depicted in the New York
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