Your Editors haven’t touched recently on technologies to authenticate prescription drugs. With counterfeits a huge issue in the developing world, we’ve written about Sproxil in Nigeria and India (confirming packaging code by SMS); Sproxil works with both the national government’s… Read moreDrug anticounterfeiting: a roundup
That seems to be the big bet that Dimitry Grishin of Grishin Robotics, an investment fund for robots and their developers, is making. From academia and expensive, years-in-the-making prototypes, he envisions inexpensive, mass-market robots which solve simple everyday problems through… Read moreIs robotics where PCs were in the 1980s?
i-Spy Digital is a specialist company in the ‘digital media space’, that is, linking mobile telecoms with point of sale (POS) terminals and digital signage, etc. According to their website they “pride ourselves on our innovative and first-to-market leading initiatives.”… Read moreConnect with older people via SMS on their TV (UK)
At the forthcoming TSA conference, Cardiff-based Telecare24 is launching Reassure24, its ‘we call you’ reassurance and reminder offering. The marketing hook is that the messages can be recorded by the UK’s ‘TV doctor’ Hilary Jones, who will be well known… Read moreReassure24 – new entrant to the 'we call you' services (UK)
An interesting opportunity for someone…a 12-week paid internship analysing the national telecare market [good luck!] and helping design a marketing campaign for Flagship Housing, based in Dereham, Norfolk. Closing Date for Applications: 19 November 2012. Details here.
This editor’s nose tells him that the organisation promoting this franchise has not thought through whether or not bodies other than independent operators can legally get involved in such schemes, or whether they would want to. Or maybe he is… Read moreTelecare retail franchising for councils, NHS, CCGs and independent providers? (UK)
“In COPD, telehealthcare [where did they find that word?] interventions can significantly reduce the risk of emergency department attendance and hospitalisation, but has little effect on the risk of death.” is the conclusion of the meta-analyses [beware!] of 10 telehealth… Read moreTelehealthcare for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Cochrane Review and meta-analysis
The Isles of Scilly, 30 miles off the coast of Cornwall, like many communities somewhat remote from ‘proper’ hospitals need facilities for telemedicine videoconferencing consultations. So thumbs-up to the resourceful islanders who bought some equipment via eBay. They now just… Read moreIsles of Scilly's eBay telemedicine (UK)
A study just published in the BMJ’s ‘Open Access’ section reports on an evaluation of Simple Telehealth’s Florence system that is a simple, interactive mobile phone texting service with blood pressure management intervention. For three months (or less if appropriate)… Read moreUsing Simple Telehealth in primary care to reduce blood pressure: a service evaluation (UK)
We present two views at variance here, based on the headlines: From Pulse+IT, ‘Australasia’s first and only eHealth and HealthIT magazine’, Telehealth to go high tech for aged care: “University of Queensland researchers have received a grant for almost (AU)$1… Read moreIs Australian telehealth alive, dead or just comatose?
