Here are a couple of questions for English telecare services – just out of curiosity: Did riots in your locality affect your ability to respond to alerts? Did you notice a change in pattern of alerts from riot-affected areas? (More?… Read moreDid the riots affect telecare service usage?
This study was published in May 2011, but has recently surfaced (with downloadable PDF) on the Australian Policy Online site. It’s rather inconclusive, but does point to participants in the study finding home health monitoring reassuring and convenient. The impact… Read moreThe effect of telehealth and telecare on clients of the Transition Care Program (Australia)
“A competency framework for practising clinicians involved in eHealth has been launched by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC). It aims to define the knowledge, skills and behaviour that are required by clinicians who have a role in eHealth… Read moreCompetency framework published for eHealth clinicians (UK)
Greater Rochester Health Foundation has announced an award of more than a half million dollars to Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County towards an AMC telehealth system. Grant to boost in-home patient monitoring for Visiting Nurse Service. And… Read moreExpansion of in-home health monitoring systems (US & UK)
We’ve been saying since it first popped up (July 2009) that Vidyo is ‘one to watch’ and now we learn that it has just landed a very large deal with the Ontario Telemedicine Network, one of the world’s largest telemedicine… Read moreVidyo's large deal with Ontario Telemedicine Network
Inevitably hackers find a way…and demonstrated here is successful hacking of control over a remote-controlled insulin pump by reprogramming it to respond to another remote control. This hack had its limitations (the remote control serial numbers were needed) and the… Read moreHacking the insulin pump, and beyond
Two articles to kickstart your thinking about older adults, and what they want (including healthcare), from two vastly different sources: Are you innovating for your parents? Dr. Joseph Coughlin of MIT’s AgeLab states the painfully obvious–that as we age we’re… Read moreInnovating for today's older adult
Two weeks ago (Sat 23 July) editor Donna flagged up “a must-read for your weekend…Neil [Versel] takes on the hype machine of ‘the Left Coast’”. Well, it sparked off one of the most interesting and absorbing discussions yet on the… Read more'Silicon Valley know-it-alls' discussion continues
A watch-sized device worn on the wrist successfully detected loss of pulse in an early-stage trial – a key step in developing a practical, noninvasive way to monitor patients at risk for sudden cardiac death – though it had a… Read moreWrist-worn device may detect cardiac arrest
At HIC 2011 [Health Informatics Conference], Brisbane 1-5 August 2011, Tunstall launched its myclinic@home system onto the Australian market. Info and photo here. The myclinic@home seems to have been on Tunstall’s UK website for some time, so must have had… Read moreTunstall myclinic@home kit launched in Australia
