Did you attend this event and could you put together a short report for publication here? We cannot find any reports online but we understand that there was a particularly interesting session that touched on the sensitive matter of the… Read moreRequest: Telehealth and Telecare event 1 November, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh: Were you there?
There’s a major article by Kevin Doughty in the November 2012 CUHTec newsletter (PDF) about commissioning telecare delivery services in the UK. “Many telecare services are at a crossroads. Should they take the managed service propositions offered by several national… Read moreCommissioning cost-effective telecare delivery services (UK)
In a thoughtful piece, John Guyatt, Telehealthcare Director, Solutions4Health, walks the reader through some of the issues for GPs around implementing some form of technological support for people with long term conditions. Among the points he makes are: “‘Telehealthcare’ is… Read moreTelehealthcare: an acceptable helping hand for General Practice? (UK)
A trio of researchers, including Simon Fraser University’s Andrew Sixsmith, is working to develop intelligent, interactive sensors to be embedded in seniors’ homes and used to support independent living. “The European Union’s investment of billions of dollars in ambient assistive… Read moreCanada and Europe fund intelligent senior homes
Clayton Christensen, who many of us know from ‘The Innovator’s Prescription’ on disruptive healthcare, in his New York Times article discusses the three-stage cycle of innovation that powers economic growth and jobs, and what has happened to break it. The… Read moreClayton Christensen on the broken circle of innovation–and funding
One of the barriers to wider adoption of eHealth and remote monitoring (aside from those organizations using mHealth for ‘no reason’) has been the difficulty of obtaining reliable ROI data. Although there are studies on effectiveness and ROI, they are… Read moreROI tool for telehealth monitoring (US)
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a/k/a the Lord of the Frequencies, released its task force report on mHealth last September. This recent two-part article from e-Commerce Times is written primarily from the wireless, not healthcare, perspective, but goes into… Read moreThe mHealth road map, as drawn by the FCC (US)
An indication from The Independent and Corporate Watch that the worrying prospect of more care home providers going bust may be closer than we feared. It’s not a problem technology is going to solve but it is inextricably linked to… Read moreBritain's biggest care home owners have debts of more than £4.5bn
New University of Michigan research evaluated the impact of automated calls (‘telehealthcare’) from a US-based server to the mobile phones of patients with hypertension in Honduras and Mexico. Hypertension is an ‘epidemic’ in countries with limited access to health care…. Read moreTelehealthcare: successful test with people of limited literacy in Honduras and Mexico
Back in September, when Vinod Khosla was predicting that digital health would frog-march physicians into Chateau Obsolescence along with buggy whip makers and battleship designers (while serving his own interests well), the Gimlet Eye felt quite lonely in its skepticism,… Read moreThe human vs. digital in healthcare–breaking the human connection?
