The latest double edition of the journal Ageing International has been ‘guest edited’ by The Center for Technology and Aging and its theme is ‘Adoption and diffusion of technology for older adults in home and community-based settings’ so it has… Read moreAdoption and diffusion of technology for older adults

Given the Wales invests to save in telecare headline in eHealth Insider Primary Care, you might be forgiven for thinking (as they have spun it on the Tunstall blog) that £7.3 million is heading telecare’s way, but reading the list… Read moreWales invests to save in telecare

Of the 1153 people who now receive the twice-a-week alerts emails, 15% (172) have been receiving them since before 20 July 2006. So they may recall one of the first telehealth videos posted on Telecare Aware on that date: called… Read moreChorleywood Health Centre still out in front (UK)

…online pornography. Lest you think that Ed. Donna has gone daffy from our late fall (autumn) cold or had too much glogg this past weekend, the perfectly respectable Nick Hunn asks us to take a closer look at this example of…a disruptive business… Read moreeHealth business models should take a page from…

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