Winter and the holidays mean increased colds, flus and other ‘bugs’ spreading from contact. But what contact? Stanford University researchers recently published a study tracking everyone in one (unnamed) American high school for one day at the height of the H1N1 flu scare… Read moreSensor-based epidemiology

Information on an app for iPad users that can convert many file types to PDF has been put on the Print as PDF Instructions page of the Telecare Aware in Review site (actual and demo).

Telehealth in Medical Tourism – Personalizing Health Care is an informative and balanced article in the Medical Tourism Magazine with a positive but non-hypey tone, by Dr. Antonia Arnaert, President and CEO of Debson Medical Tourism Inc. Apart from being… Read moreTelehealth in Medical Tourism

Antarctic-like weather (well, maybe not quite) hit many parts of the UK last week, from Scotland down to Kent, the latter place being where the large, manufacturer-independent monitoring centre run by Invicta Telecare is located. At the beginning of this… Read moreSnowed-in response centres (UK)

“In addition to lighting, TV, water, electricity, telephone and internet, health should be a standard feature of every household before long.” So finishes the four-and-a-half minute video about telehealth developments and aspirations in Taiwan with, of course, their eye of… Read moreCloud computing gives Taiwanese telehealth an advantage

From a cultural and marketing perspective it is interesting that the Micro Emergency Response System (MERS) is launching in India after trials in Israel. However, the more I read this brief press release, the less it looks like a PERS… Read moreAfter PERS, the MERS (India/Israel)

This year the weather has been particularly severe in Antarctica, as an expedition from Imperial College London, sponsored by Toumaz Technologies, has found out. Not that they seem to be complaining – part of the research associated with it has… Read moreWhat does Antarctica do to your heart rate?

A new RAND Corporation study confirms what we in the industry pretty much know: ‘the center cannot hold’ for healthcare systems globally, but the shift from hospitals or other institutional settings to the home and the integration of telehealth, much less the ‘patient-centered home’ model, is stumbling for a wide number of reasons. Unlike most studies, this includes two Asian giants: China and Singapore, along with France, Germany, the UK, and the United States.

Embedded Computing Design is not the first place one thinks of to find a lengthy discussion of telehealth by five leaders in the field, but…surprise! Interviewed (virtually): Steven Normandin (President, AMD), Joseph Kvedar, MD (Director, Center for Connected Health), Nick… Read moreEmbedded computing and telehealth: the virtual panel