With the aim of reducing the number of patients presenting at secondary care, the telehealth service in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles is trialing the remote support of patients with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs). Labmate-online item.

Vancouver-based Lionsgate Technologies Inc. is launching a universal interface that transforms smartphones, tablets and laptops into mobile medical diagnostic tools capable of real-time vital signs monitoring. It will connect sensors through the universal audio port of virtually any mobile device…. Read moreLionsgate turns smartphones into 'medical monitors' (Canada)

The GPS Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching framework agreement is still current and, despite all the well-known problems with these agreements that Telecare Aware has highlighted over the years, someone else is planning another! The Yorkshire-based organisation YPOThe Lincolnshire-based Eastern Shires… Read moreAnother UK telecare and telehealth framework agreement planned – from Jan 2013

The title of this UK Times-related Raconteur item Technology is key to unlock healthcare cost savings sums up the UK establishment’s view on health monitoring technologies, even if critics in academia and the medical profession argue that this is still… Read moreTechnology is the key to unlock healthcare cost savings (UK)

Remote Patient Monitoring in Cardiology by doctors Suneet Mittal and Jonathan Steinberg “offers a concise, practical and current guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the existing remote monitoring technology and provides a framework for incorporating it into clinical practice.”… Read moreBook: Remote Patient Monitoring in Cardiology

Older people who have suffered a heart attack often do not stick with the drugs their doctor prescribes, although the medications have been proven to save lives, according to a new US study. Many heart attack patients don’t refill their… Read moreThe case for improving medicine compliance

Mobile health company AirStrip Technologies filed a lawsuit this week against mVisum over recently issued patents for remote patient data monitoring on iPhones, iPads and other smartphones. Airstrip sues over iPhone patient monitoring patents. MassDevice item. UPDATE 22 Oct: More… Read moreAirStrip Technologies sues mVisum over patents (US)

Out-and-out heartwarming local story of a 4-year-old who called for help using a panic button when her mother was suffering from an epileptic fit at their home in Wales. All good publicity. Quick-thinking Maddison helps save her mum’s life. Where… Read moreMaddison Darby: telecare hero (UK)

If you think that sanitizing smartphones and iPads prevents ‘virus problems’ with healthcare technology and devices, look again. Malware has reached seemingly every kind of software used in the hospital setting. At a meeting of a medical-device panel at the… Read moreNo surprise here: viruses of all types afflict healthcare tech

Scanadu, a Silicon Valley startup (sort of, at the historic NAS Moffett Field, now a NASA facility), has an intriguing ‘single point’ sensor system in prototype that when held to the temple, can measure five points such as temperature, breathing, heart rate, pulse transit and oxygenation (pulse ox) onto a smartphone. Demonstrated at last week’s WIRED Health Conference: Living by Numbers, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alan Greene’s premise was that temperature varies during the day and 98.6 degrees F. is not exactly the norm. Their objective is to make vital signs monitoring simple, fast, accessible and cheap. AllThingsD article. WIRED video. Website/video.

An aside from The Gimlet Eye….