The Guardian’s ‘Patient from Hell’, blogger Dick Vinegar, whose earlier item Keep me out of hospital and save millions of pounds we flagged up here, has, with his latest piece Let’s stop purely academic delays to telehealth, provoked a series… Read moreAcidic rant provokes telehealth clarification (UK)
Previewed yesterday on FDA’s website, but officially published 21 July, is the Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff – Mobile Medical Applications. The Guidance Document is printed in the Federal Register (and on the FDA website)… Read moreFDA proposes guidelines on mHealth apps (US)
It is so long that the UK’s Department of Health has produced a successful policy on anything that its current officials are probably clueless about what one looks like. What other explanation can there be for a national strategy on… Read moreUK's new national COPD and asthma strategy
Hats off to Alan Long, Executive Director of the housing maintenance and home care services provider company Mears Group for putting his company’s money on the line to demonstrate his confidence that the provision of telecare pays. According to the… Read moreBravo! Mears Group installs telecare for free (UK)
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
