Presented at this year’s SilversSummit @ CES was the National Alliance for Caregiving and UnitedHealthcare’s joint study, The e-Connected Family Caregiver: Bringing Caregiving into the 21st Century. In the US, family caregivers provide an estimated $375 billion of uncompensated care, and as… Read moreFamily caregivers and telehealth: for now, high interest, low usage
Despite the retro title, this blog entry on Huffington Post (a source this editor rarely uses) by Roy Schoenberg, MD, CEO of online consult service American Well, isn’t. He advocates telemedicine (precisely defined as online a/v consults) as a way–not… Read moreTelemedicine–the next big thing (again?)
It’s not on either company’s website yet, but Invicta Telecare‘s newsletter has announced that it has chosen Verklizan’s UK operation Novalarm to provide its monitoring system upgrade as a “flexible, efficient and agile” option that will provide Invicta’s customers with… Read moreInvicta selects Novalarm (UK)
If you fancy a 41-paragraph ramble through what telehealth is, and teleheath in Scotland in particular (and why it could be a world leader if it were not for the lack of understanding of the non-clinical benefits by clinicians and… Read moreScotland: A potential world leader in telehealth?
It is not helpful when recent analyst reports “group patient-to-patient email, robotic surgery, store and forward technology, telemedicine equipment, clinic-to-clinic video conferencing, and home monitoring devices in the same market space.” In No Clear Consensus on Telemedicine Market Size (Hope… Read moreJournalists and analysts need to understand telehealth market segmentation
Flagging this up belatedly. On 9 December 2010 Counsel and Care (a UK charity for older people, their families and carers, whose chief executive Stephen Burke has been a strong advocate of free telecare) published a free 43-page PDF Telecare… Read moreCounsel and Care: Guide to Telecare and Telehealth (UK)
buddi, riding its wave, arrives on US shores, partnering with Mace Security International, a manufacturer of ‘personal defense and electronic surveillance products’ and operator of a wholesale central monitoring station. The device will be branded as MaceBuddi in the US…. Read morebuddi to launch in the US, as MaceBuddi
Neil Versel, who now parks his notepad at Mobihealthnews, takes on the mass media covering the healthcare/technology beat in the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review of 6 Jan. Donning his boxing gloves (no bare knucks, this is the CJR), Neil gets into the ring… Read moreTaking on the mass media on telehealth: in this corner…
The story of BT’s project using the Intel Health Guide at Wakefield is popping up all over the place thanks to the power of BT’s publicity power. Here’s the original press release, but this item from Silicon.com is one of… Read moreBT's Intel Health Guide project in Wakefield (UK)
In a conflation of telecare technology and medically-oriented service and publicity, Telenor Norway reports completing a five-month [!] pilot project “whereby elderly people’s health signs could be monitored remotely by doctors…Healthcare providers received a text message alert on their mobile… Read moreTelenor completes project testing medical alert system (Norway)
