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Here’s an item for suppliers looking at developing dedicated smartphones for the health/wellness/telecare market. It describes a system that helps configure the hardware/software mix: BlueSpec system determines circuitry and code for electronics designers from GizMag
Our space for articles about and videos of the mHealth Summit (Disclosure: Telecare Aware was a media partner of the 2011 Summit). mHealth Summit official site: Videos–US Surgeon General Benjamin keynote, HealthInterLink remote patient monitoring system demo, Day One exhibit… Read moremHealth Summit: videos, slideshows and other coverage
News announced at the mHealth Summit will be percolating through the industry over the next few weeks. One not-surprising-at-all trend is ‘connecting up’–wireless providers with telehealth devices, providers with insurers, devices with telecom platforms, platforms with funding, already integrated health… Read moreConnecting up in telehealth
mHealth Summit also confirmed a system trend for once single-minded telecare systems–the addition of telehealth and social connectedness to their behavioral monitoring to add value. You see this with GrandCare Systems (telecare+video+social) and WellAWARE Systems (telecare+vital signs). One of the… Read more…as single-purpose systems now multi-task
Importing or copying the latest ‘e-health’ technology from developed countries may not be the best way forward for health services in Africa, the attendees at the AfriHealth conference in Kenya has heard. The high-tech healthcare could come at the expense… Read moreAfrican e-health 'moving in wrong direction'
From TANN: Ireland – The European Centre for Connected Health (ECCH), established ‘to promote improvements in patient care through the use of technology, and to fast track new products and innovation in the Health and Social Care system in Northern Ireland’… Read moreECCH changes its name – to CCHSC (N. Ireland)
Sensible advice from telecare expert Guy Dewsbury, on the Telecare Blog: Choosing a telecare mobile phone.
Frankly, Editor Steve gritted his teeth when he saw ‘Low-cost alternative to home care’ as the tagline on the Memo (Memo Touch?) website (http://memotouch.com/) and Gizmag didn’t think much of it either, but for more techie reasons. Read the comments… Read moreCan a tablet computer be a low-cost alternative to home care? (US)
Dreams of a Life (info and trailer) which is about to go on UK release at selected cinemas is a dramatised documentary about Joyce Vincent, a 38 year old woman who sat dead and undiscovered in front of her TV… Read moreDreams of a Life (Movie) (UK)
In connection with what’s now being called the 3ML initiative (3 million lives, announced yesterday), Tunstall’s Group CEO Gil Baldwin made an appearence by phone on a popular national radio programme, Simon Mayo’s Drivetime. Unfortunately access to the BBC’s recording… Read moreTunstall CEO "We guarantee savings" on radio (UK)
