Don’t give up after the first paragraph of this article, it has possible implications for telecare. And don’t underestimate the company, just because the guy in the photo looks like a young geek. His company, Bug Labs has raised about… Read moreBugs for home-constructed telecare?
The full title of this item is A Second Life for eHealth: Prospects for the Use of 3-D Virtual Worlds in Clinical Psychology. (If you are not up to speed with what Second Life is, read this Wikipedia entry.) The… Read moreA Second Life for eHealth
The ‘Growth Partnership Company’ (consultancy) Frost & Sullivan, seem to think so. They have awarded Noninvasive Medical Technologies, Inc. their annual Award for Healthcare Innovation for, amongst other things, a device that measures directly the fluid status of the chest…. Read moreWill remote chronic heart failure monitoring become less dependent on weighing scales?
The Health Service Journal has published a long and interesting item about Birmingham OwnHealth, the service developed by NHS Direct and Pfizer which will, no doubt, form the basis of the national developments they are planning. (See Watch out NHS… Read moreBirmingham OwnHealth to expand rapidly
The Vena platform is “a low cost single chip communication solution for health devices, with the capability to deliver both wired (USB) and wireless (Bluetooth) connectivity to health devices.” Paul Williamson, Head of Wireless Medical at Cambridge Consultants, said “Vena… Read moreCambridge Consultants brings its Vena platform to the Continua Health Alliance
Someone ‘gets’ it. Interesting that it is someone in the telecoms and not the telecare industry: The ‘business case’ for Fibre-to-the-Home networks is no longer based solely on the commercial returns from Internet access and other communication services. Important services… Read moreThe future place for telecare and telehealth
The ‘iShoe’ has been widely reported in the general media, but here is the source story.
Following my passing comment about Google Health last week, I thought you might be interested to watch this 50 minute video of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt addressing the HIMSS conference in February. Amongst other interesting things, he points out how… Read moreGoogle Health video
Interesting little item from US blogger on broadband Andrew Cohill. He points out that “Companies like Steeplechase Networks [a broadband provider] are on the cutting edge of these kinds of consumer services, and Steeplechase is actively seeking out open, multi-service… Read moreTelehealth will support community broadband, lower health costs (US)
Queen’s University Belfast is researching ways to improve the signal transmission of wireless body worn sensors so that, in a few years, they will be much more efficient and therefore use less power and be more comfortable. The implications are… Read moreBody sensors to benefit from new wave technology
