At a time when governmental institutions at all levels are tightening their belts, the European Commission announces requests for projects to help fund. It’s really difficult to decide whether these are truly visionary or if they are the kind of… Read moreEU spending: visionary or pointless?
The FEELIX GROWING (Feel, Interact, eXpress: a Global approach to development with Interdisciplinary Grounding) project’s aim was to develop robots that are capable of identifying different emotions based on facial expressions. Now the project has announced the completion of its… Read moreRobots get emotional
Moray’s telehealthcare strategy 2010-2013 was approved by councillors at a meeting of the Moray Council health and social care services committee and it is now open to the public for comment. More information from the council’s website.
If you didn’t bother to read the recent WSDAN paper, this item by American blogger John Farrell might encourage you to do so. Proof of cost effectiveness needed to spur UK telehealth uptake. MobileHealthWatch.
Applicable to companies in South East England: SEHTA has issued a call for proposals which will result in the award of £50,000 in funding to businesses demonstrating the effective use of technology to improve health and wellbeing at work. Details… Read more£50,000 available to telecare projects through ICE-T
Max Miwa, Director, Tokyo R&D Centre, Panasonic Corporation will deliver a talk entitled ‘Supporting mobility in an aging society; a new ubiquitous sensor network infrastructure’ at the mHealth Conference and Expo. This presentation will describe how Panasonic have developed their… Read morePanasonic and Vensa to talk at mHealth Conference, Dubai
I [Ed. Steve] had to put on my antigobbledygook glasses before the significance – and it is significant – of this press release from Wave Technology Group got through to me. (Why DO they write like that? The website is… Read moreWaveTracker Plus – free GPS tracking app
A round-up, and a reminder, of the potential of mobile devices to benefit people in Africa. Areotel blog: Mobile networks to bring health relief to Africa. [Thanks to Boaz for the heads up.]
The links to the press releases have been moved to Full list of companies on the BS Framework Agreement.
A study published last week in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews confirmed positive results for both structured telephone support (remote monitoring for self-care management), and telemonitoring (telehealth), with telemonitoring taking the lead versus standard post-discharge care. For the study, researchers reviewed… Read moreRemote monitoring improves heart failure rehospitalization, mortality outcomes–study
