The Good Night Lamp is a set of table lamps that you distribute among friends or family. The lamps communicate remotely via the internet so that as a lamp is turned on or off by its owner, that action is
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One of the Good Things of the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) was that in addition to analysing the actual results, a group of researchers were assigned to look at the organisational processes employed in the implementation to see if there
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Compact, all inclusive and spot-on analysis of the First Big Question* (who pays?) in the US, written by someone new to us, Rene Quashie, senior counsel at a Washington law firm not new to us, EpsteinBeckerGreen. It confirms that for
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“Worked with Just Checking, reviewed 10 packages of care, impact on 3 packages, savings £68,000…Overall they have done 7 assessments and made savings totalling £168K” These comments are in notes of a workshop given at the TSA conference by Jessica
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“Despite widespread enthusiasm about the potential impact of new investments in comparative effectiveness research, recent history suggests that scientific evidence may be slow to change clinical practice.” The authors identify “five causes that underlie the failure of many comparative effectiveness
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Further to our note earlier this week about Doro’s new phones with eyes on the telecare/telehealth market comes the news that Bosch is teaming up with them to use the new phones at first in Germany and Switzerland, but later
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The seven ‘pathfinder’ sites (Worcestershire, Merseyside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Cornwall, Kent, Camden) are named in an unbranded press release (PDF) on the 3millionlives (3ML) site. All have been ‘pathfinding’ – some with more success than others – for the
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Mike Clark (Twitter @clarkmike) has edited a Storify summary of tweets from the TSA Conference including announcements on the TSA Code of Practice, NHS Mandate references to telecare/telehealth, Norman Lamb’s speech, the Crystal Awards winners and Jeremy Hunt’s announcement on
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Last week's release of the Pew Research Center's 2012 mobile health survey has generated considerable analysis of trends both in health information lookup and apps. Smartphones now top 50% of mobile phones in the US, and according to the CEA, the major trend in content and apps is health and fitness. Pew's snapshot of the recent past outlined in FierceMobileHealthcare helps to confirm how the trend developed. Separating information-seeking from apps....

• Information: 52% of smartphone users have sought information on their phone, with the most frequent users African-Americans, Latinos, those aged 18-49 and college graduates.
• Apps: increased adoption by women under age 50, higher education, those with annual household incomes $75,000+--and those with a significant health change in the last 12 months.
• What they are tracking is pretty much as expected though--it's not vital signs or heavy-duty Quantified Self stuff: 38% track their exercise, 31% monitor diet and 12% manage weight.

Brian Dolan in Mobihealthnews takes a more pessimistic view of the Pew survey data, maintaining that adoption as a whole is flat since 2010; only about 10% of mobile phone users have downloaded apps to track or manage their health. His discussion with Pew's Associate Director Susannah Fox goes into why she believes that adoption will be trending upwards with smartphones, points out that some respondents may have not included 'fitness' as a health app, and the bright lights ahead (or is it an oncoming train?) of media coverage and doctors actually prescribing apps. Speaking of oncoming trains....