An insistent reminder that if you are interested in presenting at the mHealth Summit near Washington, D.C. in December, the deadline for abstract submissions is this Friday. More information. Telecare Aware is a media sponsor of the mHealth Summit. For… Read moremHealth Summit presentations deadline Friday 8 July
Yes, you are reading correctly. For a company rather heavily invested in its own (Samsung) simplified cell phones, it’s surprising that GreatCall, the parent of the Jitterbug, has released an easy to use iPhone app, the MedCoach. Medication, refill reminders–‘Shake… Read moreJitterbug markets an iPhone app (US)
Showing definite signs of substantially increasing its presence in the integrated telehealth monitoring area–where there’s room to grow–VRI and MedApps signed an agreement for 3,000 MedApps HealthPAL units, transmitting data via MedApps’ cloud-based platform to their web portal. The announcement… Read moreVRI expanding telehealth capabilities with MedApps
A UK-based 5,800 person, six-month study of texting with motivational messages and behavioral-change support for quitting smoking, against a control group that received text messages unrelated to quitting, achieved a significant increase in biochemically verified continuous abstinence at 6 months… Read moretxt2stop: smoking cessation programme (UK)
‘Quantified self’ is the latest buzzy concept flying about eHealth–from Dr. Joseph Kvedar’s encouragement (‘From Couch Potato to Quantified Self’, HealthcareITNews 14 June) to Gary Wolf’s (Wired) sweeping-all-before-it statement that “people are reaching the realization/hope that personal data have personal… Read moreThe downside(s) of the Quantified Self
The UK media yesterday (4 July) was all a-buzz with the report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support Fairer Care Funding (aka ‘the Dilnot Report’. All you need to know [note the picture!] and Key statistics, both courtesy of The Guardian). As required, its focus was on how that expensive phase of care in residential settings can be funded in a ‘fairer’ way in future by giving people more certainty about maximum costs, which should enable a market in insurance products to develop and, ultimately, for the cost of such care to fall across a broader section of the population and thereby reduce financial pressure and stress on people needing care and their families. There is passing mention of the need to encourage more people to be cared for at home for longer and the role that telecare can play in that – page 60…
California-based Karen Routt has devised a system to use a web browser and a telephone. Home care agencies using her service can arrange for patients to receive customized, scheduled, recorded messages. Such messages may reinforce a nurse’s instructions or remind… Read moreDevice-free telehealth system uses phone and internet (US)
Will Lovotics up the ante in terms of care robots, or is it just more academic boundary-stretching? If interested, it’s worth the couple of minutes to watch the video. Lovotics, the new science of human-robot love from ExtremeTech.
An idea from Lithuanian designer Egle Ugintaite recently won the grand prize in Fujitsu’s 2011 design award – a cane (UK – ‘walking stick’) which monitors the users’ pulse, blood pressure and body temperature as their wrist comes into contact… Read moreCane monitors users’ health as they walk
“Approximately 80% of respondents in a new IBM research survey reveal a willingness to pay upwards of $100 for a ‘medical device that monitors their vital signs’.” Item from Mobile Marketing Watch gives lead into the study.
