Flagstaff hospital using remote patient monitoring Good one from the Washington Examiner (US). Should nurses be at the forefront of telehealth? Good one in The Guardian, by David Barrett. Why telehealth will transform care of Kent’s patients Good one from… Read moreRoundup of good and bad news items

“[Popsi Cube from] Popsicare allows for the integration and transmission of remotely captured pulse and blood pressure data along with patients’ answers to a medical questionnaire.” [Then let’s hope they’ve got their Bosch patents portfolio covered]. Medical Design Online article.

“A new platform for wearable electronics, known as the FLORA, was announced by its creators Adafruit Industries on Friday. Essentially a small, round, fabric-friendly circuit board that looks a little like a flower, the FLORA will, when ready, be launched… Read moreFLORA for wearable devices?

Published last week…as it has a distribution of 45,000 you probably know about it already. PDF download. It contains UK policy-related updates and, for the first time, the news links are arranged by category rather than date: Policy, funding and… Read moreTelecare LIN January 2012 newsletter published (UK)

Just catching up on the 3 Million Lives (3ML) website, which was launched last week… Is there anything interesting on it? Not much beyond the occasional typo; the information that Angela Single (Clinical Director BT Health) chairs the Working Group… Read more3 Million Lives website launched (UK)

First telehealth… do you have a copy of North Yorkshire and Yorks (NYY) PCT’s Telehealth Internal Audit Report (August/September? 2011) that you’d like to share with us? It’s the one that reveals more of what went on during the telehealth… Read moreReaders' help wanted

Proteus Biomedical’s Helius ‘sensor-enabled tablets’ can be taken with pills or incorporated directly into medicines by the manufacturers. The sensors are activated by stomach acid and each sensor, the size of a grain of sand, contains a tiny amount of… Read moreProteus Biomedical to introduce smartpill into UK in September

Cornwall is aiming high. Good! With its Whole System Demonstrator phase over – effectively a 3-year pilot project that was bigger than many so-called ‘mainstreamed’ places – if anyone can do it, they can! NHS Cornwall in Telehealth 30,000 patient… Read moreCornwall: 30,000 people to use telehealth (UK)