Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Preventice this week received FDA clearance for its BodyGuardian heart rhythm monitor. The monitor is affixed to the skin and monitors heart rate, ECG, respiratory rate and physical activity to detect cardiac arrhythmias, uploading the data via mobile… Read morePreventice's telehealth gains FDA clearance
Getting an early jump on it, Information Week forecasts five that will not be all that surprising to our readers: mobile health (professionals loving their tablets and consumer apps and real telehealth, although the writer doubts the stickiness of many… Read more2013 prognosticating for health IT
If coordinated care can lower risk, how is this not like a blockbuster drug? Using the example of coordinated cardiac care in a 2009 Kaiser study, “patients have an 88 percent reduced risk of dying of a cardiac-related cause when enrolled within 90 days of a heart attack, compared to those not in the program.” And, “clinical care teams reduced overall mortality by 76% and cardiac mortality by 73%.” Dave Chase in Forbes projects that patient engagement by nurses, doctors, pharmacists and others in the continuum of care will be…
Following the announcement on Tuesday that the global Chinese ICT provider Huawei is to make UK investments over the next few years equalling two billion US dollars, one wonders whether, with its presence in videoconferencing, links with mobile network companies,… Read moreHuawei announces substantial investment in UK
Yesterday’s announcement by Eastbourne-based Welbeing that they have acquired the telecare monitoring business of CASA Lifeline – which had provided services to approximately 4,000 customers across Kent and East Sussex, reminds editor Steve that one of his first observations about… Read moreUK telecare call centre rationalisation – slowly but surely
TechRepublic’s short ‘n’ sweet summary (picture and eight points, not nine) of the iPhone 5 premiered yesterday seems to be nothing but good news for healthcare users: bigger screen, thinner, metal backplate making it a lot less fragile, updated camera,… Read moreiPhone 5 intro: implications for healthcare professionals
Companies that can position their telehealth service as an innovative idea that can “change the way information is currently used and shared between different organisations [and] NHS staff, clinicians and patients can access information when they need to and patients… Read moreNHS Information sharing challenge fund (UK)
The Strategic Society Centre has published a major piece of quantitative social research – with the support of [telecare service provider] Age UK – to map users of personal alarms and alerting devices among the older population in England. It… Read moreMillions of people could benefit from telecare (UK)
In what has been taken by several Telecare Aware readers as evidence that Tunstall employees live on a different planet, Tunstall Australasia has claimed their broadband-based videoconferencing for telehealth as a ‘world first’ and a ‘monumental achievement’. Senator Stephen Conroy,… Read moreNews from Planet Tunstall (Aus & UK)
In a development that could stimulate the development of cardiac devices far smaller than currently designed, Stanford engineering professor Ada Poon and her team demonstrated that a millimeter-sized device implanted 5 cm. inside the chest on the surface of the… Read morePinhead-sized, no battery cardiac device developed
