Portable telemedicine equipment clearly has great benefits in many situations, but does it have to be dressed up as a self-propelled robot? That was my principal reaction after watching the video on the OffSite Care Inc. The video is a… Read moreRobot at the bedside (video)
Health care applications for the iPhone, text messages from physicians and even Nintendo’s Wii Fit video game are versions of telemedicine, according to Jonathan Linkous, chief executive officer of the American Telemedicine Association. Jackson Hole Star Tribune story.
“The project TeleWatch Patient Monitoring System was developed to do home monitoring and disease management for high risk outpatients suffering from congestive heart failure. The Home Link system provides for communication and recording of patient’s data.” Read about all the… Read moreJohns Hopkins University working on telehealth devices
You can tell from the title that the first is going to be riddled with jargon: TelaDoc Joins The Center for Health Value Innovation, Aligns with Industry Leaders in Value-Based Benefit Design The second proves that Americans – well, some… Read moreTwo more grit-your-teeth press releases
Good question and a thoughtful answer by Thomas S Nesbitt MD in iHealthBeat.
As telemedicine, telehealth and telecare providers get sucked along in the updraft of the digital trend in health care provision, the provocative conference report and the many comments that have become appended to this E-Health Insider Primary Care item may… Read more"Paper not fit for purpose" Connecting for Health’s chief technology officer
An interesting story on the use of information on MP3 players for people with asthma to listen to when an attack threatens. However, is calling it ‘Telecare for Asthma’ stretching the definition of telecare too far? Do leave a comment… Read moreMP3 players lend an ear to asthma patients
RFID tags can mess up medical devices. Potentially… to a limited extent… according to this article on the Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
Actually, a highly readable account of a robot experiment from the Tahoe Daily Tribune. It attempts to answer the question ‘Why use a [rather limited] robot?’ What caught my attention was that there are apparently 175 of these robots around… Read moreDoctor, Doctor, there's a robot in my room! Oh, it's you…
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