Archive for the ‘Telemedicine’ Category
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Mobile phones are the dominant space where consumers get their understanding of sensing technologies, and that will inform the development of emerging medical sensing systems, Bill Sermon told MEDTEC UK conference attendees last week. Speaking on wireless medical devices at the conference in London on 1 May, Sermon stressed the ...
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam) has announced the launch of the Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment (ACT) programme. Led by Philips, the EU-funded ACT programme brings together healthcare authorities, clinical experts, universities and industry partners in five EU regions to establish benchmarks for the successful implementation of care coordination and ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Despite government initiatives in Europe to adopt telehealth and promising results from the UK program Whole System Demonstrator, there is much room for growth in the area of telehealth, says Theo Ahadome, Senior Analyst, Health IT; and Shane Walker, Associate Director of Consumer Health & Wellness Devices in Digital Health; ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Telemedicine can reduce inconvenient doctor appointments and be especially helpful for patients in remote areas, but the field is not advancing nearly as quickly as it could. Challenges in reimbursement, regulation, law and privacy are some factors slowing the growth. Moreover, many patients remain sceptical.
The recent debate on the UK ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Remote monitoring of patients with pacemakers, defibrillators and related implanted electronic devices has several benefits: patients don't have to schedule frequent appointments with care providers, thus improving quality of life, and it is cost effective, which heartens payers in these financially strapped times. And yet, uptake of the technology has ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Denmark has announced that its new Action Plan for Telemedicine will be built on Design Guidelines created by Continua Health Alliance, according to a press release from the international industry association.
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
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Isansys Lifecare CEO Keith Errey may have his head in the cloud, but his feet are planted firmly on solid business ground. Isansys has developed the LifeTouch Patient Surveillance System, which is touted as the first cloud-ready product to be ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
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Guest blogger Andrew Parton, Joint Managing Director, Hugo Technology (Bromsgrove, UK), writes:
We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of the changes that the web will bring to healthcare. Until now, it’s been mostly telecare innovations—remote monitoring of patients with long-term ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2012
Mobile technology is destined to play a significant role in the global healthcare market, and GSMA, a body that represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has the numbers to back up that claim. Revenue in the mHealth space could reach the tidy little sum of US$23 billion by ...
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Monday, December 12th, 2011
From the wire: An interdisciplinary research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI; Worcester, MA, USA) has received a US$1.2 million award from the US National Science Foundation to develop a smart phone application that will help people with advanced diabetes and foot ulcers better manage their disease. The four-year project ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Despite what publicists and copy writers would like us to believe, fundamental technology breakthroughs are few and far between. Bringing incremental improvements and assembling existing, sometimes decades-old technologies to fix persistent problems is the more common scenario. That describes the home health hub (HHH), which semiconductor company Freescale introduced at ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
An innovative body patch that incorporates an ultra-low-power electrocardiogram (ECG) chip and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio was introduced at the imec Technology Forum on 10 October. The combination of power-efficient electronics and standardised communication opens new perspectives for long-term healthcare monitoring, imec told journalists gathered ...
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