There were 76 items posted in Telecare Aware in March 2011 on top of the 85 in February and 64 in January – and 6 already in April! If you are having trouble keeping on top of them all, check… Read moreItems posted in March

Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) has launched an ImagineNation Ideas Challenge, asking Canadians how they would improve health and health care through innovation in information and communications technologies. TANN: Canada.

Not on the British Heart Foundation (BHF) website yet, so local news of a BHF donation of £1.8m towards a £3.8m study of 2000 heart patients to improve their treatment compliance presumably came straight from Professor Morgan: Southampton heart patients… Read moreBritish Heart Foundation and Southampton monitoring study

Following up on an announcement we carried in July last year, that the Oakland CA-based Center for Technology and Aging had awarded five $100,000 grants for home-based care and disease management using telehealth, including one to the New England Healthcare… Read moreNEHI study update (US)

Ex-doctor, international statesman and veteran campaigner for NHS reform Lord David Owen heaps scorn on the UK’s Coallition Government’s plans for an external market driven NHS in a 36-page PDF. (The first part also contains a brief history of the establishment and organisation of the NHS that may interest non-UK readers.)

According to Roy Lilley (who chaired the Telecare Services Association conference last November)…

Growth by acquisition was a key part of Philips’s growth strategy in the telecare and home health market this past decade. However, in an interview, Stephen Rusckowski, the head of Philips Healthcare in Amsterdam, has said that it will now… Read morePhilips talks down expectations of more large acquisitions

Kiwok, that produces a mobile heart monitoring system BodyKom, will use the money from the IPO for ‘global’ rollout and Nordic expansion. A launch in India is already underway and the introduction to Canada is planned after the flotation. The… Read moreSwedish m-health firm Kiwok plans IPO

Bordeaux-based eDevice has introduced Cellgo, a low-current modem that enables power-constrained products (battery-powered ones) to handle the power bursts needed during cellular data transmission. The Cellgo can be used with devices equipped with serial ports including remote patient monitors and… Read moreLow current GSM/GPRS modem for M2M (France)

Northern Ireland’s super-speedy European Centre for Connected Health (which managed to let £28 million funding for a telehealth service evaporate in the three years it to commission it) has today updated its web page with the result of the Remote… Read moreECCH updates its Remote Telemonitoring Service web page at last (N. Ireland)