It is moving right along at Happtique, the online mHealth application ‘store’ backed by GNYHA Ventures. The first is the upcoming release of compiled comments on its 15 pages of health app certification guidelines released in July [TA 18 July].
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Monthly Archives September 2012
Medical 'bad news' best delivered in person vs. video, study finds
At the Mayo Clinic Transform conference last week, their Center For Innovation announced an interesting outcome of their research done for the Connected Care initiative. Connected Care includes the use of telemedicine to connect patients with specialists; instead of traveling
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Rural telehealth funded for VA (US)
The Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be funding the Veterans Administration (VA) for telehealth to expand rural outreach for VA. The grant of $983,100 (Ed. Donna–why the odd amount?) will be divided equally among three states–Virginia,
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Trauma blood loss sensor research funded (US)
A three-year project to research and develop a sensor-based system to 1) detect trauma blood loss earlier and 2) send the data to a smartphone has been funded by a $1.9 million US Army grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
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CEA Innovation Entrepreneur Awards finalists include telecare
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which is well-known for the International CES Las Vegas show every January (also the site for the Digital Health Summit), now is recognizing an individual entrepreneur and two companies in this first-ever annual award. One
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What healthcare would do if it were responsible for reform (US)
At last week’s Mayo Clinic Transform conference, multiple brainstorming and ‘crowdsourcing’ sessions, led by members of GE’s Healthymagination team, asked participants their ideas on making healthcare better. Onto nearly 12 whiteboards appeared multicolored Post-It® notes. The GEHC team then distilled
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Telecare marketplace "appears to be stagnating" (UK)
“…why can I not use the fall detector I think is best with the dispersed alarm unit I think is best and add the best peripherals to this? Why are we still faced with no choice?” Two good questions raised
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Whole Systems Demonstrator (WSD): Nuffield's summary so far
The Nuffield Institute is making as much as possible of its analysis of the WSD results with another summary page – but actually it is quite a good summary and includes a worthwhile video presentation by Adam Steventon. [It’s interesting
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Helmet-mountable ICEdot Crash Sensor – for falls too?
The helmet-mountable ICEdot Crash Sensor system consists of a slim sensor that can be mounted onto a cycle helmet and pairs to a smartphone via Bluetooth low energy (BLE). When the sensor detects forces consistent with an accident, the smartphone
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Telehealth patent holders continue aggressive defense
As your Editors have reported since February, large companies in the telehealth field have been stepping forward aggressively to defend what they perceive as infringements on their patents and intellectual property. Robert Bosch Healthcare took the lead with their February
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