From Joseph F. Coughlin’s (MIT AgeLab) Disruptive Demographics blog: While you and your colleagues and peers may be tethered to your smartphones, and debate their merits rather than the Yankees and Red Sox, the statistical fact (Nielsen) is that adults 45+ in the… Read moreWhy boomers lag in smartphone adoption
A short article from the San Diego edition of Xconomy that’s making a few waves: CEO Don Casey’s recasting of the West Wireless Health Institute from ‘accelerating wireless health innovations, technology incubation, advocacy and education’ to, according to the article,… Read moreWest Wireless Health Institute's 'evolution'
The Veterans Administration is perhaps the largest institutional user of EHRs. However, the alerts that are supposed to improve healthcare may not be all that accurate. A study published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (12 April), taken from six focus… Read moreExcessive EHR alerts counterproductive: study (US)
The Telecare Aware News Network (TANN) sites for Canada, England, France, Ireland, Portugal, Rising Countries and Scotland all have recent updates. (Right sidebar for links.) If you live in one of those countries are you tracking them and telling other… Read moreTANN site updates
Back in mid-2010 [TA 29 June], we presented Jon Linkous’ (ATA) analysis of mHealth nearing the top of the Gartner ‘hype cycle’ (the peak of ‘inflated expectations’.) A sure sign that mHealth is at the absolute summit–mainstream media and trade… Read moremHealth at peak, exaggerations avalanche
