Taxonomy of usability requirements for home telehealth systems is an item from the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction. It’s paid content, but readers might like… Read moreTaxonomy of usability requirements for home telehealth systems
At a launch last week Kent County Council unveiled the results of a large telehealth project that, conducted in 2006-07, predates the Whole System Demonstrator Programme. According to the Kent website, rolling out telehealth could save Kent £7million a year…. Read moreTelehealth project report shows savings. Kent (UK)
Indian mobile provider Aircel has announced the launch of a health consultation service for people in India in association with the Apollo Hospitals Group. It will provide structured medical advice and a disposition [sic] will be available round the clock… Read moreAircel Apollo Mobile HealthCare (India)
A pointer to the future for mobile monitoring devices? Researchers develop pinhead-sized gyroscope for smartphones and medical devices.
A short item on a website for English people in Torrevieja, Spain. The recipients were people on the waiting list for conventional telecare. Pity about the photo. Forty pensioners get free GPS mobiles. Supplier’s website: Idi Eikon.
It must be a sign of the austere times: two announcements for the price of one. The Continua Alliance makes two significant announcements in a lash-up (ecosystem?) of a press release. Continua Health Alliance Releases 2010 Design Guidelines, Adds New… Read moreContinua releases 2010 design guidelines, adds new member Microsoft
Home care has tended to be behind the curve in technology–but one area that’s been eagerly adopted (for efficiency and profitability) is staff management via mobile time, tracking and schedule compliance systems developed by companies like Sandata, Kronos and Cerner. Allscripts has combined these functions with… Read moreAllscripts releases mobile EHR system for home care
‘Accountable care’….what is it? It’s generally defined as a local healthcare organization that is able to provide a continuum of care for patients across different institutional settings. It allows doctors to team up with each other and hospitals in new ways, and… Read more'Accountable care' a way forward for eHealth?
Is depression treatment a neglected area for telehealth? Early findings of a Weill Cornell Homecare Research Project/Rhode Island Hospital/University of Vermont Telemedicine program indicate that telehealth (called variously telemedicine and even telecare in article) can be used to improve treatment of depression, prevalent in… Read moreTelehealth may help treatment of depressed older people
The Health 2.0 conference, 6-9 October, part of San Francisco’s Health Innovation Week, will be culminating in the Developer Challenge awards on 7 October. The team and company list is extensive (starts here) for each of the sponsored challenges and the combinations of companies and projects show… Read moreHealth 2.0 Challenge connects
