Well, it had to happen sooner or later: “A British surgeon has saved his long-lost friend’s life by diagnosing him with appendicitis, via Facebook. 30-year-old Rahul Velineni logged on the social network in the middle of his shift [more productive… Read moreLife-saving diagnosis via Facebook

Doro, the mobile phone designer/manufacturer, produces some of the easiest phones for older people to use but awareness of them in the market is probably a lot less than it ‘ought’ to be since Apple and other manufacturers suck up… Read moreDoro global strategic partnerships with MyGlucoHealth and Medixine

Published earlier this month, a British Medical Journal clinical review entitled Telehealthcare for long term conditions by Susannah McLean and Aziz Sheikh of Edinburgh, UK, and Denis Protti of Victoria, Canada. It’s a comprehensive, academic overview and will be useful… Read moreBMJ Clinical Review: Telehealthcare for long term conditions

Editor Steve would bore readers rigid with the many items that could be posted about planned local UK council spending cuts which mention telecare either as the subject of cuts or as a way of saving money, so restraint is… Read moreTelecare and council cuts (UK)

Home Is Where the Heart Monitor Is is the title of a general item from the US’s Hospitals & Health Networks, worth noting for the final paragraph: “Ward [of Covenant HomeCare] warns that ‘what may appear on the surface to… Read moreHome Is Where the Heart Monitor Is

Companies burdened by the need to register patents in each EU country, never mind the rest of the world, will be cheering the news that a single European patent, which has been under discussion for years is now very close…. Read moreSingle European patent almost a reality

In the upcoming Federal budget, President Obama is advocating the spend of $10.7 billion on a high-speed, wireless public-safety network for first responders and healthcare professionals. Called the ‘Wireless Innovation and Infrastructure Initiative’ (WIII…get it?), it will transmit data, images and video… Read more'First responder' high-speed wireless network: $10.7 billion (US)

A trial of CardioMEMS‘ wireless implantable hemodynamic monitoring (W-IHM) system of 280 patients in the NYHA [New York Heart Association] Class III Heart Failure Patients Trial Study Group, sought to assess whether the use of a wireless device could help clinicians better manage heart failure. CardioMEMS measures pulmonary artery pressure that builds up in congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. The test was to see whether use of the sensor would reduce the rate of heart failure-related hospitalizations…

Nanosheets–materials that are one atom thick–may be the mass-produced (in billions) batteries and electronic building blocks of the future. Think of it powering wearable sensors, for instance, which can determine gait, falls, temperature changes. SmartPlanet: Breakthrough in nanosheets. And, in… Read moreNanosheets and graphene: powering sensors, computers