By implementing the Telus Remote Patient system the Pointe de l’Île Community Health Centre in Montreal increased the number of patients managed from 30 to 80 per week and reduced home visits from 12 to 2, resulting in potential savings… Read moreQuebec Community Health Centre makes telehealth savings
Mobile networks in North America are filled to 80 percent of capacity, with 36 percent of base stations facing capacity constraints, according to a survey by investment bank Credit Suisse. Report from CIO.com.
Japanese fascination with androids notwithstanding, most people don’t feel comfortable with robots if they look too human, so Robosoft are probably on the right track with their service robots such as Kompaï. (TA report.) Now researchers have been delving into… Read moreO Robot, Robot! wherefore art thou Robot?
If you can do it with zoo animals, you can do it with older people.…seems to be part of the rationale for this brief study by researchers at the Dartmouth (University) Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Lebanon,… Read moreTracking senior activity via mobile sensors
On 14 July, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) sent a letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman sharply criticizing the FCC for continued inaction on and mismanagement of the Universal Service Support Mechanism for Rural Healthcare. Despite the… Read moreATA whacks the FCC on rural telehealth funding (US)
Connect for Healthcare, which pioneered the completely logical notion that long-term care communities should be reporting to family members on a resident’s wellbeing status beyond the ‘chase ’em down’ phone call or visit–and developed the software to provide those status… Read moreLTC communication software goes international
Those of us (like Ed. Donna) in the New York metro have long wondered, with our concentration of major health centers, universities, pharma (diminishing) and research–with plenty of VCs right here–why the bucks aren’t flowing to local healthcare tech companies…. Read moreWhy does NYC lag in healthcare tech funding?
If you liked the Proteus ‘smart pill’, you’ll love this capsule endoscope with a difference. Developed by a team at Osaka Medical College and Ryukoku University, the capsule–dubbed the ‘mermaid’–is propelled by a tail fin which is controlled electromagnetically by… Read moreThe ultimate in remote monitoring? (Japan)
