Vodafone has just published a white paper they’ve dubbed a ‘Health Debate’, covering four areas: the opportunity, behavior influencing decisions about mHealth services, the challenges facing healthcare professionals who adopt mHealth and the factors around user adoption behavior. The release… Read moreVodafone publishes first mobile 'Health Debate'
American Well’s virtual consult service, via two-way video, phone and secure text chat, has been chosen by the Veterans Administration (VA) to set up three ‘online practices’ for US service veterans. As of now these are relatively local ‘practices’ in… Read moreAmerican Well wins contract from the VA (US)
GrandCare adds streaming music…Coro Health’s MusicFirst, which can be customized for the individual’s taste in entertainment and to influence mood, is being added to GrandCare’s Trillium and HomeBase monitoring and socialization system. Music to lift mood, soothe and calm particularly… Read moreTelecare briefs: mood music, securing data…and not
David McCullough, Chief Executive of the WRVS (formerly the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service) is reported as having a pop at telecare (or is it telehealth?) services for increasing social isolation because they help keep people at home. Assuming he’s not… Read moreOnline services 'isolating' elderly people (UK)
Mark Ayton, managing director of Honeywell HomMed UK, describes his view of the potential opportunities for telehealth home health monitoring in the Healthcare Equipment & Supplies (HES) Magazine: Will GPs take telehealth into the mainstream?
Burnside Telecom has combined cloud based technology with mobile phones and launched a new app, Monicare, aimed at care homes and local authorities. Burnside’s main proposition is that cellular/GSM/private networks are a viable alternative to traditional landlines and the introduction… Read moreBurnside Telecom: Monitor care equipment from your mobile phone (UK)
Rather belated notice of this (sorry) but the latest Telecare LIN newsletter, for October, has been published. (PDF download) The contents cover:Section 1: November 2011 – an important month for telecare and telehealth – Page 3 [includes useful pointers for… Read moreTelecare LIN October newsletter published (UK)
