Wearing a watch may not remain the generational marker that it currently is. A revival in the popularity of the watch may come with phone-related functions as the following brief pointer-to-the-future item from PopSci illustrates: Stop Rummaging for Your Phone… Read moreWill watches make a comeback?
An in-depth article based on an interview with Telefónica’s e-health boss José Perdomo pulls back the curtain on the company’s strategy. It looks at its three areas of focus: TeleCare, TeleHealth and Health IT. The strategy seems to be along… Read moreWhere's Spain's Telefónica e-health division heading? José Perdomo tells all
Not electronic bugs, but bed bugs (Wikipedia), which are on the rise in many cities including London and New York. They feed on human blood and live for a long time in nooks and crannies as afforded by bed frames… Read moreBugs in monitoring devices
No! Not a challenge to the Intel/GE Care Innovations Health Guide, but a competition to see who can – if I have understood it correctly – mash up the best dedicated search engine on health topics for Walgreens’ customers. And… Read moreWalgreens' Health Guide Challenge (US)
Avery Dennison Medical Solutions (pressure-sensitive adhesive technologies) and Proteus Biomedical (‘intelligent’ medicine and mobile health) have announced a new partnership as “a key component of our strategy to become a leader in the emerging areas of consumer and remote patient… Read moreAvery Dennison Medical Solutions and Proteus Biomedical new partnership (US)
Now Frost & Sullivan are about to join the terminology fray and lay down ‘the’ definition of ‘telehealth’ in a free webinar Telehealth Defined, Explained and Explored on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1 p.m. EDT – sign up to… Read moreTelehealth Defined, Explained and Explored
A selection of recent posts on Telecare Aware News Network (TANN) sites: TANN: Canada Curricula reform needed to develop more tech-savvy physicians TANN: England mHealth report from WHO rates UK highly TANN: Ireland ‘Mobile Medicine’ at the University of Ulster… Read moreTANN round-up week ending 11 June 2011
One expects important announcements from top companies to be clear and informative. But this editor (Steve) has struggled to understand what yesterday’s Intel-GE Care Innovations Health Guide on Windows 7 devices press release means in practice. Just what are these… Read moreCare Innovations Health Guide Windows 7 puzzle announcement
David Mosher, Healthcare Business Manager at HP Canada makes the case for the advantages to doctors of using tablet PCs (HP’s Slate 500 gets two mentions) in an item on a Canadian technology for doctors site. His analysis of potential… Read moreHow tablet PCs are changing medicine
If you remain unconvinced that smartphones (and hence ‘mHealth’) are much more than marketing hype then How the smartphone is killing the PC by Charles Arthur in the UK’s Guardian newspaper will be interesting reading.
