Following up on an announcement we carried in July last year, that the Oakland CA-based Center for Technology and Aging had awarded five $100,000 grants for home-based care and disease management using telehealth, including one to the New England Healthcare… Read moreNEHI study update (US)
A ‘once-over lightly’ by Investor’s Business Daily of robotics that mostly isn’t, focusing on in-hospital ‘telepresence robots’ for remote consults–really motorized telemedicine carts–and the companies in the field: InTouch [TA 3 Feb] which has deployed a ‘few hundred systems’ so… Read moreYour Friday robo-fix: 'telepresence robots' (US)
More examples of ‘mHealth in low-resource settings’ (see previous item) is this AFP article on African mHealth: txtAlert reminders for patients at a Johannesberg HIV clinic reducing missed appointments from 15% to 4%; the MDNet phone network linking physicians in… Read moremHealth connecting doctors in Africa, reminding HIV patients
Some new terminology? ‘mHealth in low-resource settings.’ The idea is not alien to our readers spanning the globe–the use of SMS in health reminders and drug anti-counterfeiting (Sproxil) plus uses of smartphone telemedicine in developing countries (MIT Sana). But this is the first time that… Read moreLow-resource mHealth
