Leaving behind the posh hotel ballrooms of the latest m/eHealth conference (as described in Dialing back the hype and Mind the gap), organizations like CAST (Center for Aging Services Technology) have been laboring, in absence of hype, to create an… Read moreReal-world 'ecosystem' supporting telecare and telehealth (US)
The difficulty of assessing mobility in older adults may be helped by the Mobility Assessment Tool (MAT) in development at Wake Forest University (North Carolina). “Using an iPad or PC, older adults watch short videos of animated figures performing everyday… Read moreiPad tool for assessing mobility
Israel-based OxiTone is the developer of a wrist-worn oximeter which measures blood oxygen levels continuously, sending the information via Bluetooth to a wearer’s smartphone. Oxygen saturation is a key vital sign for those with COPD. Current ‘pulse-ox’ meters are generally… Read moreWristwatch-style oximeter developed (Israel)
From David Shaywitz, a writer attending the FutureMed/Singularity University conference near Google’s HQ in California, a further dissection of the disconnect between healthcare technology (not all IT) and the everyday practice of healthcare. (Ed. Donna would also add the everyday… Read moreMind the gap between tech and medicine
David Whelan of Forbes turns a gimlet eye (not Ed. Donna’s, but close) on healthcare tech startups that overpromote into a stratospheric ‘hype zone’ of self-importance. His case in point is ZocDoc, an appointment setter for participating doctors that will… Read moreA call for 'dialing back the hype'
Fujitsu Laboratories of America and the interestingly named Jardogs, a subsidiary of Cleveland Clinic, announced at HIMSS a ‘joint development collaboration’ for remote patient monitoring and reporting. Fujitsu built a pocket-sized prototype platform for remote sensor data integrated with Jardogs’… Read moreNew arrivals to the monitoring web portal party…
Or ‘beyond Angry Birds’…Harvard University researchers have been testing a smartphone app that effectively desensitizes users to a common fixation in social anxiety–hostile faces in a crowd. The app shows faces, hostile and neutral, stacked on the screen, which then… Read moreSmartphone apps to reduce social anxiety
AirStrip, which recently announced an investment from the Qualcomm Life Fund and a redirect to home health monitoring [TA 10 Feb], is adopting Diversinet’s MobiSecure technology for authentication, encryption and mobile security. This will help their hospital-grade monitoring on smartphones… Read moreAirStrip selects MobiSecure for government health apps
