Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency, IDA Ireland (Industrial Development Agency) which is responsible for the attraction and development of foreign investment in Ireland has today announced that global healthcare company Alere is establishing its International Business Service Centre in Galway. This will create 100 jobs… Read moreAlere establishes International Business Service Centre in Ireland
An interesting piece of news if you think the car is a suitable place for health monitoring [we have our doubts], but unfortunately another gobbledygook press release from MindTree. MindTree Unveils Bluetooth Solutions Suite for In-car Health Applications.
‘Patient from hell’ Dick Vinegar, writing in the Guardian Professional, wishes he lived in Staffordshire – a place with a bad record for hospitals but which has practical ideas for keeping people out of them. It’s a good view of… Read moreTelecare and telehealth 'for real' (UK)
According to Fierce Mobile Healthcare, ultrawideband (UWB) works by sending super-fast bursts of signal over large swathes of radio spectrum. It only transmits over short distances, but doesn’t interfere with other frequencies, and can coexist with other technologies like Bluetooth… Read moreUltrawideband – the future for remote monitoring?
The Queen joins Mick Jagger on list of Britain’s ‘gold age power list’ of the country’s most influential pensioners. The list aims to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions about older people. It was compiled by the charity WRVS, which said the… Read moreGold age power list (UK)
It’s a great concept – a week (19-25 September) dedicated to encourage people to pass on their IT skills BUT to call it Itea and Biscuits Week seems like an example of when ‘clever’ word play becomes a marketing mis-step…for… Read moreAge UK appeals for people to pass on IT knowledge to older friends and family
Independa, the San Diego wireless health startup, says it is making its integrated telecare app, Angela, available today for beta testing. The program provides a very simple interface that enables ‘the elderly’ to send and receive e-mail, download photos, and… Read moreIndependa unveils Angela (US)
Citing the need for an ‘umbrella organization in mobile health over all of the special interest groups and associations that make up the mobile health ecosystem’, founder Wendy Thomas of Mobile Health Expo announced during MHX the formation of the… Read moreMobile Health Expo sparks Mobile Health Association
While we’ve attended several wakes for Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault softly, softly registered with FDA in early June as a Class 1 medical device with no pre-market approval (see registration). The regulation it is under pertains to medical image storage devices and not… Read moreHealthVault quietly registers with FDA (US)
