We sincerely hope our readers will not be availing themselves of emergency rooms (emergency departments) over this holiday and end of summer weekend…but if you do, at least in some areas in the US, hospitals are communicating their ER wait times via smartphone apps, text… Read moreNow text messaging for…emergency room wait times
In an apparently bungled announcement the UK’s relatively new Secretary of State for Health let it be known this week that the generally popular phone and online health information service NHS Direct is to be ‘scrapped’ or, more exactly subsumed… Read moreNHS Direct to be 'scrapped' within lifetime of BSFA
Researchers at the University of Chicago Hospitals Pediatric Epilepsy Center, with Chicago-based Wave Technology Group, are developing a smartphone-based system which can help monitor severely epileptic patients 24/7 from anywhere. A small EEG (brain wave) set (contained in a hat) transmits data to… Read moreSmartphone-based remote monitoring for epilepsy
The Mobile Health Expo website now has full session, speaker and abstract information up on their website. For your preview if you’re already registered–and more incentive if you’ve been thinking about attending. Especially since reduced rates expire 10 September. Save… Read moreMobile Health Expo–session information
From what this editor [Donna] can discern from this release, Alere, a very big health management services company, has a marketing agreement with AirStrip Technologies to distribute their AirStrip OB mobile obstetrical monitoring through its Women’s and Children’s Health division. Alere ‘will act as a… Read moreAirStrip OB enters home health with Alere Health
