Well, one competitor’s heard the bell, gotten out of their corner and is coming out swinging. The BlackBerry PlayBook announced yesterday is slated for early 2011 release, price unknown. According to Fast Company’s lengthy writeup, the PB seems to have… Read moreTablet Wars Round #4.5: BlackBerry PlayBook
Is Buying Solutions (BS) as arrogant as it is incompetent? Or is its failure to respond to my [ed. Steve] requests for a statement just indolence or indifference to the concerns raised by a reader about the ‘both sides of… Read moreBuying Solutions' resounding silence (UK)
An item from the Tayside and Fife’s local paper should be of interest for all advocates of older people getting involved in empowering themselves and others by using technology in the future: here is a group of people who have… Read morePraise for Airlie Silver Surfers' telehealth role (Scotland)
Only a few days left for UK companies to express an interest in joining a trade mission to India in December. “The present Indian market with a fast growing private healthcare sector presents compelling opportunities for UK companies with innovative… Read moreHealthcare and medical technology trade mission to India (UK)
Healthagen‘s iTriage, first mentioned here as a physician-developed app for iPhone and Android and deployed by Meridian Health in NJ [TA 20 July] is now in use in Houston, TX with HCA Houston and HealthOne Emergency Care Centers. Yes, it gives you GPS turn-by-turn… Read moreiTriage app guides you to healthcare
i2i TeleSolutions, a Bangalore and Chennai-based startup, is developing an ultrasound platform based on the iPad and iPhone as screening platforms for detecting fetal abnormalities. The platform would link sonographers around the world, helping experts monitor pregnancies as well as reviewing… Read moreIndian company uses iPad to screen for birth defects
This spring we covered the impressive win by the MIT MocaLab (now Sana) of Vodafone’s and the mHealth Alliance awards [TA 20 April] and the project head’s thoughts on the Android platform [TA 24 April]. Since 2008, Sana student teams have been… Read moreMIT's students continue development of Sana telemedicine
Having hosted its first-ever conference, the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) is profiled in this article, with the usual about the potential of telemedicine (video consults) and telehealth reaching into rural areas to make healthcare available, affordable and accessible…. Read moreTelemedicine's shaky start in South Africa
