Leading ‘automated retailer’ Coinstar (self-service coin counters, Redbox DVD vending machines) has invested in SoloHealth, the developer of the EyeSite vision screening kiosk. The SoloHealth Station will screen not only vision, but also blood pressure, weight, and body mass index, along with an… Read moreGo to the supermarket, visit the healthcare kiosk?
A potential market for telemedicine consults–and conceivably for telehealth–are retail health clinics which in many states are located inside drugstores (notably CVS and Walgreens) or free-standing. They provide quick attention to sudden non-emergency health problems, are convenient and furnish quality care for less: 30-40%… Read moreRetail health clinics impeded in NY, other states (US)
The positives and negatives of ageing are to be examined in a new £3M, five-year study, looking at health and well-being, including changes in factors that could promote ‘healthy ageing’. The project, led by Professor Bob Woods from Bangor University’s… Read moreMajor new survey into health, wellbeing and ageing (Wales)
Congratulations to new contributing editor Pedro Brandão for getting the Telecare Aware News Network Portugal site off to a flying start with several posts! (Don’t read Portuguese? Use the ‘To read this site in another language, click here’ link to… Read moreTANN: Portugal goes live
We don’t normally publish “we have a new customer” news (see Policies), but given the large monitoring company Invicta’s recent switch of monitoring technology supplier to Novalarm, the acquisition of a significant customer in the housing market (the Guinness Partnership,… Read moreInvicta and Guinness Partnership contract (UK)
Research2Guidance continues its series of interesting blog items with a piece entitled mHealth market: Sensor-based mobile apps show how mHealth business models could work. It explores business models whereby mobile apps are given away as a means of promoting sales… Read moreHow mHealth business models could work
Can you help either of the following two Telecare Aware readers? Do you know of any interesting telecare or telehealth services in Paris or Istanbul? Jennene Buckley, CEO of Feros Care (community care/telehealth/telecare provider in Australia) will be visiting those… Read moreReaders' requests
There were 76 items posted in Telecare Aware in March 2011 on top of the 85 in February and 64 in January – and 6 already in April! If you are having trouble keeping on top of them all, check… Read moreItems posted in March
Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) has launched an ImagineNation Ideas Challenge, asking Canadians how they would improve health and health care through innovation in information and communications technologies. TANN: Canada.
Not on the British Heart Foundation (BHF) website yet, so local news of a BHF donation of £1.8m towards a £3.8m study of 2000 heart patients to improve their treatment compliance presumably came straight from Professor Morgan: Southampton heart patients… Read moreBritish Heart Foundation and Southampton monitoring study
