Personal health records and a payment option on a smart card? Introducing at HIMSS11 (Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual meeting) is the LifeNexus Personal Health Card, supposedly the first multi-purpose electronic health card with the individual’s PHR with a payment
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Much more than a nuisance, false alarms or ‘false positives’ on telemonitoring can be fatal. Human factors on receiving too many alarms, false positives, dead batteries, detached leads can all contribute. ‘Smart monitors’ that pick up multiple vital signs and algorithmically
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The Philippines’ Congressional Commission on Science Technology and Engineering (Comste), has identified telehealth [as in ‘telemedicine’] as a top national priority for 2011 and is seeking to fast track the implementation of the National Telehealth Project. This was initiated by
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Touching story of a poor woman who was conned out of her 500 rupee pension money ($11, £6.80, €8 approx). But I wonder what’s more striking to TA readers… Her age? Her work? Her poverty? Or that she also had
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A Kings Fund blog item by Nick Goodwin which probably started life as a bit of publicity for their conference next month, raises some doubts about the uptake of the technologies even if the results of the Whole System Demonstrator
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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