At a sponsor’s session at the Kings Fund Congress last week, a member of the Care Innovations team said that he did not regard their Guide as a telehealth device, more of a disease management tool. [Well, any company worth… Read moreIntel-GE Care Innovations Guide "not telehealth"
Several readers have asked me [Editor Steve] to substantiate by references to Government documents my assertion that the 2006-2008 Preventative Technology Grant (PTG) funding was “an addition to the baseline funding of councils with social services responsibilities” and that it therefore continues to the present in council funding, year-on-year. (3millionlives Plan D item).
Well, it is extremely difficult. Let me begin by telling you, dear reader, as it was told to me when I was contracted on project management work for the Department of Health (DH) in 2003-2005…
The ‘secretive’ Google glasses, details of which have been leaked to anyone who will listen, may well revolutionize mHealth data and imaging feeds to clinicians and surgeons, enabling remote consults into remote surgery, if we are to go with iMedicalApps’… Read moreGoogle glasses: potential mHealth breakthrough?
The Wall Street Journal goes ‘personal-presence’ robotic highlighting Anybots’ QB mobile robot (which sells for $9,700, complete with glowing blue eyes), VGo Communications, Xaxxon Technologies and iRobot (best known for Roomba but also with a toe in robotic health). The… Read moreYour weekend robot fix: "Life of the Party"
Andrew Carle of George Mason University (Virginia), who founded their senior housing administration program and has been a leading voice in integrating technology into senior housing, makes some offers that housing execs shouldn’t refuse to save labor, time and money:… Read moreSenior housing: get on the technology bus or be thrown under it
The winner of the Amazon voucher is Mark, of SeNCit, since his was the only comment! Friday March 9th is ‘Share Telecare Aware Day’! Use the ‘share’ buttons, or email a friend about one of the current home page items,… Read moreIt's Share Telecare Aware Day! (And the winner is…)
At the King’s Fund yesterday Telefonica’s UK mobile arm O2 (O2 Health division) launched a mobile-based pendant alarm system with geolocation and geofencing called ‘Help at Hand’. It has a choice of two user devices, one of which also has falls detection. More information on the O2 Health website or download the info sheet and press release (PDFs).
The positioning of the service, which includes a pendant or wrist-worn device, a secure website and an alarm monitoring centre is interesting…
How the saturation of mobile phones in Kenya is being leveraged to meet an exceedingly challenging set of health problems. While 45 mHealth projects are active or have already been completed in Kenya—more than in any other country, according to… Read moreThrowing out the 'mobile phone lifeline' for Kenyan health
Rather quietly, Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD has been gathering a number of digital or eHealth companies under the NantHealth name. The latest is the recently mentioned [TA 28 Feb] Boston Life Labs, a developer of wireless hubs which connect telehealth devices… Read moreNantHealth: a digital health conglomerate in the making?
In response to an increase in business since the introduction of its ‘Reach’ base unit and ‘Touch’ pendant last year, Tynetec has opened a new facility close to its headquarters in Northumberland. The facility doubles its production and warehousing capabilities… Read moreTynetec expanding (UK)
