Philips Lifeline has published a free CarePartners Mobile app for iPhones and Android smartphones that enables family caregivers (carers) to connect with each other and to coordinate care plans privately and securely. More information and download links: CarePartners Mobile. We
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Monthly Archives December 2012
Tell Ecumen what you think of pendant alarms/medical alarms/PERS
Ecumen is conducting an online survey of people over 55 on behalf of a “group of PERS device companies [who] are looking for your input to design the next generation of this product”. Good grief! To mis-quote one of the
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Ideal Life chooses Orange Business Services to expand its remote health management offering (Canada)
Toronto-based remote health provider Ideal Life announced that it has chosen Orange Business Services to expand its remote monitoring solutions for wellness and chronic conditions to an international audience. Orange will provide seamless machine to machine (M2M) wireless connectivity for
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Africa's mHealth breakthroughs to pave way for US
The United States will look to Africa to gain knowledge about advances in mobile health technologies…While it’s still the early days of mHealth and the digital revolution, “we will see huge breakthroughs in Africa and South Asia,” said Jeffrey Sachs,
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High-end eHealth centres in shipping containers (India)
Shipping containers are being put to all sorts of uses these days, including for homes and shops. Now, in the Kaithal district of Haryana, India, the first of what is intended to be a series of eHealth (telemedicine? telehealth?) centres
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Cooking up something for Raspberry Pi (Spain and US)
Editor Steve hardly understands this one, but smells money for someone who can exploit this open source development… New e-Health Biometric Sensor Platform for Arduino and Raspberry Pi: Cooking Hacks by Libelium Helps Makers Develop Products to Monitor Medical Data.
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Telehealth accelerating transplant patients' recovery in Italy
The Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and High Specialisation Therapies (Ismett) is a major transplant centre in Italy and has been running a trial with post-transplant patients in partnership with Intel-GE Care Innovations. “The study is still ongoing but the signs
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Do we need a telehealth tsar? (UK)
Good question. Good article. Good comments. Good gracious, go and read it! Do we need a telehealth tsar? The Guardian.
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mHealth: evidence, not anecdotes, needed
Earlier this week, Editor Donna, in reviewing David Shaywitz’ Forbes ‘2013 awards’ article on the top book for 2012, noted that disease management (and telehealth overall) has had difficulty with determining traditional ROI. Our long-time readers might remember this editor’s
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Food allergies? Maybe iTube for you…
For those of us who have food allergies, or even sensitivities, any new food or prepared dish holds a level of risk, but current testing is bulky, lab-based and for professionals only. A new device may be able to simplify
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