In what is a clear example of the West Health Institute’s new direction [TA 18 Oct], they are partnering with the Naval Medical Center of San Diego to conduct clinical trials of the West Health-developed Reflexion Rehabilitation Measurement Tool (RMT)…. Read moreWest Health, Naval Medical Center Kinect-ing for rehab
The National Football League (NFL), which we spotlighted on major support of the FNIH on TBI research [TA 7 Sept] is using technology to observe football players on the sidelines and reinforce the role of trainers on the scene. In… Read moreTechnology catching injury earlier in NFL (US)
Independa, the San Diego-based developer of the Artemis telehealth monitoring system and Angela social engagement/telecare platform, announced the launch of its pilot with LG announced at International CES this past January. LG’s Pro:Centric Healthcare TVs will run the cloud-based Angela… Read moreIndependa goes LG TV; adds $1 million in funding
AirStrip Technologies, developer of patient monitoring software, announced a $10 million funding from the UK-based Wellcome Trust charitable foundation. This will likely be dedicated to the development of the AirStrip platform to facilitate accessing and querying data housed in EHRs,… Read moreAirStrip gains $10 million from Wellcome Trust (US/UK)
A recent change that escaped your Editors (and even the all-seeing Gimlet Eye), even as the weather changes, is the digital health influencer Eric Topol, MD’s quiet departure from the board of the West Health Institute at the end of… Read moreEric Topol steps down from West Health (US)
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) awarded one of its two ‘Small Business of the Year’ Innovation Entrepreneurship Awards to telecare, video and socialization system GrandCare Systems. The Awards recognize entrepreneurs leading businesses with revenues under $30 million and the contributions… Read moreCEA names GrandCare Small Business of the Year (US)
Rather surprising in their synchronicity were two new reports–the first from research company Frost & Sullivan, the second an academic study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)–detailing problems and concerns with mobile health from the perspective of… Read moremHealth challenges: two perspectives
Some good news on the US funding front for early-stage and second round companies: New York funding eight startups: Announced at this week’s New York eHealth Collaborative conference was the formation of the New York Digital Health Accelerator, which is… Read moreSome good news on the telehealth funding front
TapCare is promoting an interesting idea – that it is possible to use Near Field Communication (NFC) tags with smartphones and tablets as a simple way of alerting the carers (caregivers) of people living independently to changes in their care… Read moreWhat is TapCare? And who?
Adam Steventon of the Nuffield Turst continues to ruminate on the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) results in his latest blog item, Should clinical commissioning groups invest in telehealth? More and more, the answer to the question of whether telehealth monitoring… Read moreThe answer to the question of whether telehealth is a good thing (UK)
