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Gamification in the US; any great examples closer to home? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
In spite of gamification being at the peak of inflated expectations in the 2013 Gartner Hype Cycle, here’s a great example from the US journal Pediatrics of its use to encourage young people with canc...
At last a supportive article on telehealth! (UK) 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
Richard Vize has written a highly-recommended article in the Guardian today entitled “GPs continue to do battle with government over telehealth”. This gives some valuable context to why publications s...
Saving a life with Google Glass 27 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am
click to enlargeFurther to Contributing Editor Toni’s posting on Google Glass being used during cardiothoracic surgery [TTA 26 August] is this report of a Glass app, CPRGLASS, coaching the user throug...
Medtronic confirms forecast direction change, the market reacts, and brains are stimulated 27 Aug 2013 | 07:46 am
The ‘reasons why’ we (and others like David Shaywitz in Forbes) proposed back on 12 August for Medtronic’s purchase of Cardiocom were fully confirmed by their CEO Omar Ishrak in Bloomberg (21 August) ...
Signs of a home monitoring bubble? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
click to enlargeSuddenly home-based remote monitoring is very warm, if not hot. The news of investments at all levels–from Medtronic’s purchase of Cardiocom [TTA 12 Aug] to a $525,000 third angel roun...
Humanising healthcare…or doctor making a ‘glasshole’ of you? 27 Aug 2013 | 04:02 am
A cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco recently performed surgery wearing Google’s wearable computer, Google Glass. Dr. Pierre Theodore described his experience at th...
Don’t be put off by the title…take II (and take your pick II) 26 Aug 2013 | 02:13 pm
Following on from yesterday’s post entitled “Don’t be put off by the title, or the conclusion, of this review of reviews“, Mike Clark has kindly pointed me towards another recent review of telehealth ...
Don’t be put off by the title, or the conclusion, of this review of reviews 25 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm
Whenever I see the word “telehealthcare” I feel there should be an ® or perhaps a ™ after it as it so often appears in connection with a particular organisation. However no such connection is evident ...
Healthcare Design Conference 25 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
16-19 November, Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, Orlando Florida One of the few design-only oriented conference for healthcare facilities. “With roughly 4000 participants at the 2012 Healthc...
Medivizor patient info site goes public with additional information 25 Aug 2013 | 12:20 am
Medivizor, which was one of the better discoveries of our CE Week (NYC) coverage and the H20NYC/Healthcare Pioneers evening back in July [TTA 3 July], has moved out of what was a largely private beta ...
