A piece on the UK’s Royal College of Nursing website describes an interesting use for home-based pulse oxometry: measuring obstructive sleep apnoea, particularly in children, where other forms of hospital-based monitoring are particularly disturbing and produce atypical results: Home monitoring… Read moreUsing pulse oxometry to monitor obstructive sleep apnoea
For over three years the UK Government’s Framework Agreement (FA) for procuring Telecare, Telehealth and Telecoaching services has been perpetuating the industry-wide confusion between Carecalls Ltd trading as Telecare Technology (www.telecaretechnology.com) and the unrelated Telecare Technology Limited. Two weeks ago… Read moreShh! GPS clears up a BS mess (UK)
Social workers are up in arms about the portrayal of a social worker in one of the UK’s favourite TV soaps. Fury over Eastenders’ ‘misleading’ social work storyline – Community Care item. Now, hands up who still thinks it’s a… Read moreFury over Eastenders' misleading social work storyline (UK)
Blueprint Health, the NYC-based healthcare tech accelerator and mentoring center, held their ‘Demo Day’ featuring its current class of nine startups last Thursday (repeated today at the Health 2.0 National conference in San Francisco). Many of these were also previewed… Read moreInvestor alert: sit in on pitches by nine health startups
Back when the weather was warm, we reported on MedStartr as the first crowdfunding platform for healthcare [TA 30 July] and how startups can use it to their advantage. In fact, MedStartr crowdfunded its own party project, Healthcare Revolution: SF,… Read moreCrowdfunding catching on for healthcare (US)
Will the Automist device (video below) become a standard addition to telecare (plesiocare?) providers’ product offerings? However they incorporate it into their business models (via referral commissions or as an accredited installer?), the device is an interesting proposition for them… Read moreSafety product: Automist – Affordable domestic fire sprinkler alternative
The 3millionlives (3ML) team has put together their first newsletter. Download it here (PDF), where you can also ask to be put on the mailing list. The first edition includes a useful list of forthcoming UK events, information about the… Read more3millionlives: Monthly newsletter started (UK)
The Gimlet Eye marvels at the billows of corporate fog rolling across the moors of this interview with Pfizer’s Kristin Peck in McKinsey Quarterly . Soggy phrases like ‘we are now reaching an inflection point’, ‘society-wide discourse on the future… Read moreReading for a wet afternoon: Pfizer inflecting 'connected health'
In an effort by an affluent Connecticut town, New Canaan, to retain older adults in their homes, a pilot of ten residents aged 70 to 85 will receive iPads or Acer tablets, enabling them to teleconference with a nurse two… Read moreTown self-funds 'tablet telemedicine' to retain seniors
The September issue of Stroke (American Heart Association) has published a study validating the use of a smartphone app for use in viewing CT scans of stroke victims. The viewing application tested was Calgary Scientific’s ResolutionMD, and the study of… Read moreMayo Clinic study proves effectiveness of mobile stroke imaging
