Editor Steve’s impressions on Robert Bosch Healthcare and the absence to date of an ‘aggressive sales position in the UK’ [Tuesday TSA conference report, 9th from end] are interestingly mirrored in the US. While Bosch has done large-scale tests with… Read moreBosch Healthcare in US: interesting moves too
A new non-profit organization, Honor Vet, has been organized in the New York area to link returning service members and veterans with mental health professionals through online services and social networking. What they are organizing: telemedicine (online video consults), instant… Read moreNew mental health telemedicine service for military (US)
Thanks to some last-minute sponsorship from the conference organisers and from Tynetec, editor Steve attended the Telecare Services Associations’ 2010 Telecare and Telehealth conference in London this week. Links to the reports are: Monday 15 November (updated Monday evening) Tuesday… Read moreTSA 2010 Conference reports
Another Friday, another glowing mHealth prediction. My prediction is that it is to sell another expensive report. 500m people will be using healthcare mobile applications in 2015.
Hats off to eHealth Insider for an item about the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) programme based on a conference presentation and an interview with George MacGinnis who, as a consultant with PA Consulting working on the NHS Connecting for Health… Read moreWSD sites enrol just one patient in ten (UK)
Pointer to the future – an interview with one of the researchers involved in developing thin, flexible LEDs, with many possibilities for remote patient monitoring. Light-emitting sutures, biomedical tattoos and more future medical tech from Smart Planet.
Put bodily fluids on a chip, diagnose a sexually transmitted disease. That is the idea behind the development of a chip which, once applied and plugged into your mobile phone or computer on a mini-USB drive, will send you back… Read moreMobile phone 'chip' for STD self-testing (UK)
According to Health Investor, O2 Health has announced it is to roll out pilot telehealth and telecare services programmes to NHS Western Isles, Berkshire East Community Health Services, and NHS Rotherham. NHS Western Isles press release.
Not at the mHealth Summit either: Novartis expects within 18 months to go for regulatory approval–probably European first–of the Proteus Biomedical chip-implanted ‘smart pill’. Trevor Mundel, Novartis global head of development, announced at the Reuters Health Summit in New York… Read moreNovartis will seek regulatory approval for 'smart pill'
As a telehealth or mHealth company, have you been considering targeting employee wellness programs, either through health plans (like Aetna’s ActiveHealth, UnitedHealthcare’s OptumHealth), independent vendors or directly to self-insured companies? After all, healthcare costs are on the rise–in 2011, 8.9% projected for large companies. And for telehealth, wellness programs are a ‘natural’ for self-monitoring. But…
