…for those who can’t. This SmartPlanet article rounds up four exoskeleton-type systems that assist users in walking and climbing stairs. What they have in common are true mobility and that, with FDA approvals and right financing, can go to market… Read moreRobotics making strides…
The two Harvard researchers who earlier this year announced their ‘lung-on-a-chip’, designed to replicate real lungs in minature with human cells, received a $3.3 million Federal grant to use this system for testing the toxicity of cardiopulmonary drugs. This possibly could eliminate animal testing,… Read more'Lung-on-a-chip' tests for drug toxicity?
Last week, owing to the limited launch information, we were only able to make a passing reference to the headline result of the 2005-2007 Kent TeleHealth Evaluative Development Pilot which involved 250 patients with long term conditions. Now we have received a copy of the full 148 page report, we can tell readers that it is a veritable cornucopia of positive results and…
Isn’t it odd to see the news announced of something you always assumed was the case, anyway? Robert Bosch Healthcare Joins Continua Health Alliance.
Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to read is true. Not even the names have been changed to protect the innocent. That’s because, as far as I [ed. Steve] know, no one involved in these events has done anything illegal, so they are all innocent. In the words of Dragnet’s Joe Friday “All we know are the facts, ma’am”.
A prototype of an Android based system to monitor a user’s heart, beat by beat, could potentially allow doctors to keep a remote eye on patients with cardiac abnormalities.
If you are an eHealth developer and wonder why you can’t get anyone’s attention at your target organizations’ IT departments, this CMIO report on a study by CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives) may explain why: departments are short on… Read more51% of healthcare CIOs are short staffed, admit projects at risk
Why is the Android platform so hot, so fast? Why is it the fastest growing mobile platform on the planet, in fact? ZDNet’s Tech Republic presents five arguments why, ranging from anti-Apple sentiment to creating a brand new operating system with… Read moreHandicapping the smartphones, race #2
Community matrons [Wikipedia, half way down the page] could play an important role in getting telehealth embedded into GPs’ clinical practices and signs are springing up in press items lately that the UK’s community matrons are waking up to the… Read moreCommunity matrons waking up to telehealth (UK)
It’s good to see the Society for Telemedicine and e-Health in Nigeria (SFTeHIN) continue to promote the cause of eHealth in Africa via a report in BusinessDay (Nigeria) on their 4th conference on telemedicine and e-health. Telemedicine, e-health: Latest path… Read moreSFTeHIN continues to promote eHealth in Africa
