The Department of Veterans Affairs, already one of the largest users of telehealth in the US through its Office of Telehealth Services, awarded today six national contracts for ‘home telehealth devices and services.’ Announcing in their own releases are Cardiocom and… Read moreVA awards $1.38 billion in six contracts for telehealth (US)

GP Online runs a report on the Royal College of Physicians event in London last week highlighting that Dr Mark Dancy, England’s clinical chairman of the NHS Heart Improvement programme was talking down expectations that the Department of Health (DH)… Read moreFunding shortage to slow NHS roll-out of telehealth

Regular readers will expect editor Steve to be reaching for the Valium when a news item starts with the sentence “Australian [sic] is moving slowly towards the use of telehealthcare…” but the writer redeems herself by making a distinction between… Read moreGetting smart, slowly (Australia)

The website of the EU-funded BRAID programme (part of the ITC research theme ‘Cooperation’ of the 7th European Framework Programme) has noted a spate of recent stories from Portugal about people who died alone and remained undiscovered for a long… Read moreEU BRAID programme highlights people dead and undiscovered in Portugal

A Cisco Internet Business Solutions/Princeton Survey Research Associates International survey of over 100 international senior healthcare leaders, released last Wednesday at the World Health Congress in Washington, DC, found that telehealth and related technologies which enable collaboration and information-sharing have the greatest… Read moreInformation sharing, telehealth technologies rated top in innovation potential

The Edison Awards, given to companies demonstrating the most innovative new products and services in multiple categories, were awarded in NYC last week. In the Innovative Services/Health, Wellness and Safety category, the top two winners are no strangers to our… Read moreEdison Awards to American Well, MedApps, ZPass