In a ‘we have another client’ press release, the marketing consulting firm Linus Group is flagging up that Canadian health monitor company BioSign is going to start to promote a new service dubbed ‘Cloud Diagnostics’.  According to the press release… Read moreBioSign to launch the Cloud Diagnostics brand (Canada)

Disease diagnosis as a branch of telehealth when ‘lab-on-a-chip’ and ‘microfluidic’ technologies connect to mobile phone networks to deliver their results? Lab-on-a-chip (Wikipedia) Microfluidics (Wikipedia). Item prompted by news of a microfluidic device that can identify infectious diseases such as… Read moreLabs on chips

The UK media regulator Ofcom’s Ofcom’s eighth annual Communications Market report indicates not only the speed of uptake of such internet-enabled phones but that, driven by social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, their owners are becoming increasingly addicted to… Read moreSmartphone users 'addicted'

SiliconRepublic has reported on Irish fabless [semiconductor vendor that does not have inhouse manufacturing facilities] semiconductor firm DecaWave’s development of low-cost wireless sensors for accurately tracking an object or person. Key features include its ability to locate objects indoors to… Read moreDecaWave: Indoor location tracking to within 10cm

The Philippine Department of Health and telecoms firm Smart communications are seeking to create an electronic database of patients’ medical records that will enable recording of consultations; fill and send referral acknowledgements and feedback forms; search for health care specialists,… Read morePhilippines: Progress on rural ehealth to shine on

A Dutch study due to be published in print in September, but available online now, indicates that patients will accept the use of telemedicine technology if they are allowed to experiment or play with it for a short time first…. Read moreStudy: Change of Patients’ Perceptions of Telemedicine After Brief Use (Netherlands)