Legislators in Texas have passed an Act that will come into effect September 1, 2011 which will enable the development of a system to reimburse providers of telemedicine and telehealth services under the state Medicaid program. This is significant in… Read moreTexas legislators define home telemonitoring, telehealth and telemedicine services

Just another example of buddi’s GPS-location system in use would not normally make it onto TA these days. However, editor Steve is offering this one as a good example of how story focus on an individual, rather than the company,… Read more'Spy in the sky' keeps Andy safe (UK)

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners has been given AUS$ 567,000 funding to develop telehealth standards – ‘telehealth’ as in ‘online consultations’, that is. Most informative source: item in PDF from 6minutes.com.

Competition is fierce in the medical devices market and one way that companies try to protect themselves is by creating ‘patent thickets’ (technology areas that are densely populated by patents referring to a similar technology) to make it difficult for… Read moreFree report: Emerging patent thickets and standards in the medical devices and telehealth space

We have not heard much from Alphadaughters since we commented on the website in December 2009, but things are stirring, and the site for women over 50 who are worrying about, or looking after, their parents has just announced a… Read moreAlphadaughters to use Ziconix technology (UK)

A long, gushing piece in Singularity Hub about the Practice Fusion EHR (“What’s makes it different than [sic] its 300+ competitors? For starters, it’s web-based, 100% ad-supported, and absolutely free. It’s the fastest growing EHR community by a long shot,… Read moreWeb-based, 100% ad-supported, free EHR (US)

Assessment of the prospects for the adoption of telehealth by the NHS as a result of the pressures on NHS funding. NHS cuts driving healthcare opportunities in What Investment. This editor (Steve) wonders where the evidence for this upbeat assessment… Read moreNHS cuts driving healthcare opportunities

With the Alere Masterclass announcement, we have just posted the 601st item in the members only Telecare Aware In Review section since it was started in October. That’s 601 items that are easy to search, easy to print, easy to… Read more601

Taiwan’s Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta took a recent opportunity in Geneva to remind the world that Taiwan is getting on with setting up an integrated e-health system: “Our system encompasses medical facility and patient record reporting, health smart card issuing… Read moreTaiwan gets on with telehealth