The mHealth Initiative’s spring networking meeting in Chicago, 30-31 March, has added a discussion on FDA’s looming shadow over mobile devices. Speakers include senior representatives from West Wireless Health Institute, Boston Scientific, MedApps, Qualcomm and Nokia. Don’t stick your head in… Read moremHealth Initiative agenda: FDA fears, expectations and hopes
Not telehealth exactly, but since much of the topic is about patient-doctor communications, this may be of interest: the hospital-oriented Phrazer is said to be “the world’s first multilingual communication system, where patients provide medical background information, symptoms or complaints… Read morePhrazer handheld communicator
The Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua Health Alliance have entered into an agreement to facilitate and promote the adoption of Wi-Fi networking technology in connected health applications. Press release.
“mHealth was clearly the biggest cross industry topic on the conference…Interesting that most of the mHealth solutions where not smartphone centered but made use of a specific device…Home monitoring has been another interesting cross industry area which caught a lot… Read moreGSMA Mobile World Congress: mHealth etc.
“Plans for GPs to diagnose most hypertension cases using 24-hour ambulatory BP monitors may be ‘unfeasible’ and would cost practices thousands of pounds.” according to GP Online, quoting Dr Kathryn Griffith, president of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, who was… Read moreGP leader scorns ambulatory blood pressure monitoring recommendation (UK)
HIMSS11 may be a nexus for eHealth and mHealth news and introductions this year, in a way that wasn’t true in 2010. Palomar Pomerado Health System, California’s largest public health system has introduced a self-designed Android mobile application, in conjunction with Cisco. Called… Read moreHIMSS news in brief: Monday
The announcement at a conference in Belfast on Friday by Home Telehealth Limited’s (HTL) managing director Peter Range that the company has been acquired by Alere is a highly significant one. This editor (Steve) predicts that, fed by Alere’s resources the Home Telehealth team will grow rapidly from being a substantial fish in the UK’s small telehealth pond to being a big fish in the global connected health ocean.
More news of the acquisition is expected from Alere later this week.
However, for those readers who are saying “Alere who?” I can point out that the company
Proliferation of both mHealth apps, companies and conferences are a pointer to the future that may not be promising, according to research2guidance. Pay per download and subscriptions, which long-term don’t make money, will give way before 2015 to service charges for remote monitoring,… Read more'Hype curve alert' on mHealth apps: research2guidance
A mobile application which is not quite what research2guidance is referring to above is MEDecision’s electronic health record ‘push’ to mobile. The InFrame mobile application will enable clinicians to access patient records–medical history, meds list, conditions list, admisions history, ER history and lists… Read morePushing patient clinical summaries to mobile devices
A team of electrical engineering grad students and professors at Stanford University has done what researchers have long thought impossible–an antenna setup that allows wireless signals to be sent and received at the same time. Since wireless networks employ a complicated work-around to… Read moreWireless signals sent and received, simultaneously
