FierceMobileHealthcare picks up on a NASA experiment in training non-medics to use ultrasound for remote diagnostics and speculates that the lessons learned may encourage the adoption of other remote health technologies. NASA experiment will give boost to telehealth-enabled ultrasound
Enabling Mobility for Continua Guidelines is a Continua Alliance paper that has no date or authorship acknowledgement [don’t you just love that?…however, the document properties give 6 July 2011 and Ian Hay of Orange] but is of interest as it… Read moreContinua MTF Mobile Personal Health Managers Guidelines
Some of the items posted recently by Telecare Aware News Network (TANN) site editors: TANN: Australia: New Telehealth partnership formed in Northern NSW [Feros Care telehealth trial, too small and too short to be useful, in Editor Steve’s opinion.] TANN:… Read moreTANN news roundup 12 July 2011
Vodafone has launched mHealth Professional, ‘a healthcare package dedicated to mobile working’. It comprises iNurse from Advanced Health and Care, digital pens from Ubisys, and a lone worker protection app from SitexOrbis. The question, as a commenter on this EHI Mobile… Read moreVodafone first telcom in UK with package for community health professionals
From TANN: England… Telecare Ready: Creating a universal entitlement to telecare (46 page PDF download) is a new report by James Lloyd of the Strategic Society Centre. In it he argues a case for delivering free telecare to enable people… Read moreThe case for FREE telecare (UK)
Non-US readers will be interested in this newspaper report not for the technology – it is basic fare for any UK telecare service – but for the price that the State of Ohio is apparently prepared to put on the… Read moreTelecare for Ohioans living alone (US)
The writer of this item fell right into the terminology trap and appears to refer to three different types of technology as ‘telecare’. Still, it’s a good sign if GPs really think they should adopt it. Whatever it is. GPs… Read moreGPs back expanded role for telemedicine/telehealth/telecare (UK)
A pointer to the future item – 50 severely physically impaired people have been trying out a new brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by medical engineering company G.Tec of Schiedlberg, Austria. The new interface lets users explore Second Life’s virtual world… Read moreControl your home with thought alone
In November 2009 TA brought you news of the SimplicITy Computers interface for older people. At the time we thought it rather clunky, but the creators have clearly been listening to the people who have been trying it out and have introduced a ‘two tier’ approach so that people can start simple and go more complicated when they are ready…
The Australian Government’s AS$620 million system of telehealth rebates and incentives aims to provide patients in rural and regional areas with remote access to GPs and specialists through videoconferencing between major metropolitan centres and regional clinics, hospitals, and residential aged… Read moreAustralian telehealth scheme 'not good enough'
