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Integrating health monitoring into the home setting, in the US, is generally private pay. AV and automation installers have marketed eHealth systems since at least 2006 (in Ed. Donna’s QuietCare days) yet it still is early days in the business. Lately… Read moreHome health automation as 'an adolescent with braces' (US)
The West Midlands developed AskTARA website is to be launched nationally on 1 October 2011 (NHS Local announcement). The site will initially target telecare and telehealth products, but will expand to take in a range of services such as personal… Read moreAskTARA for national (UK) launch
Here’s just one reason why developing a universal EHR or PHR is so difficult. There’s much more variety in people’s naming systems than you might expect. So your very first database field gives you a headache – or it should… Read moreWhy a universal EHR or PHR is so difficult
As when Bosch announced it had joined the Continua Alliance [TA item], it’s odd to see something you assumed to be the case being trumpeted. Tunstall press release Tunstall Response Achieves Prestigious TSA Platinum Award. [The ‘Platinum’ level is the… Read moreTunstall Response meets TSA standard (UK)
Sign-of-the-times thought-piece by Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University asks whether the pressures on older people in the UK might lead them into expressing their frustrations by ‘direct action’. Are older people angry enough to riot? Guardian.
15 months ago, in June 2010, editor Donna pointed out the possibility of using the technology in the Xbox Kinect for falls detection. [TA: Xbox Kinect for healthcare?] Now we hear that people at the University of Missouri have been… Read moreXbox Kinect shows falls detection promise
A new sensor-based system for tracking patient respiration and heart rate is being tested at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. Developed by Tel Aviv-based EarlySense, the 30 pilot units will also provide clinical staff with data-driven charts and graphs…. Read moreEarlySense hospital bed sensors piloting in Massachusetts
Patients undergoing hand surgery and under regional anesthesia at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham UK are being supplied with iPads and headphones supplied by the hospital’s charity. The idea was developed by physician assistant Mark Leonard to distract patients from… Read moreiPads are welcome distraction during surgery (UK)
Health New England, a managed care insurer in western Massachusetts, is adopting a HIPPA-compliant smartphone app which, according to the developers, is the first of its kind where HIPAA information can be accessed via a smartphone/tablet app in a secure cloud… Read moreHealth New England adds member app
Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to DecemberBut the days grow short when you reach September ‘September Song’, Weill/Anderson Ed. Donna has lately been summertime-quiet on data breaches [TA 26 May, 25 Feb, 6 Jan] but the changing… Read moreOnce again into the (data) breach: 'September Song' edition
