POSTS TAGGED AS telehealth

West Wireless Health Institute

With $90m from the Gary and Mary West Family Foundation, the “West Wireless Health Institute” recently opened in San [MORE]

Telemedicine Device Market

“Consumer telehealth will be an extension of the current home-use medical device market, with manufacturers offering additional internet-based services [MORE]

Medical Home and Medical Monitoring at Home

Daniel Z. Sands, M D, MPH a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston and a director [MORE]

LivingWell@Home

Last month, the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (New York City) announced a $8.1m gift [MORE]

Mobile Health Perspectives

Reduce the size of the iPad, ruggedize it, create its ability to run multiple apps concurrently, include a camera, [MORE]

Telemed and Quality of Life

Philips Electronics sponsored a study at a Spanish hospital that demonstrated the value of an interactive telehealth system for [MORE]

Telemed Enables Drug Store/Hospital Affiliation

A possible scenario of the new healthcare reform legislation is that more patients having health insurance will flood hospital [MORE]

Healthcare Innovations-Mainly for Poor Countries

The McKinsey Quarterly surveys healthcare payer and provider services around the world, mentioning Mexico’s “Medical Home” telemedicine service that provides [MORE]

Telemedicine Brings Efficiency to Primary Care

Dr. Alan Dappen Founder of DocTalker Family Medicine and doctokr, Inc. describes an innovative, responsive, primary care practice that uses [MORE]

Traumatic Brain Injury Reseach

Don DuRousseau, CEO and Senior Scientist at Human Bionics LLC,   discusses issues of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and the [MORE]

LifeWatch’s “Teleclinic”

Three to five percent of Americans over age 65 have atrial fibrillation (2.2 million people) and some of them [MORE]

Telemedicine, China

If healthcare reform is “in the air,” that air is even thicker in China than in the US.  On [MORE]

Cisco Telehealth

Cisco Systems hopes to break into the telemedicine market that GE, IBM, Intel and others now dominate, and it’s [MORE]

Healthcare Chapter for National Broadband

The National Broadband Plan, aimed at bringing more communication services to all Americans, is a product of the American [MORE]

Nice Suite of Home Monitoring Products

This story is nearly a sponsored advertisement for iSOFT (Sydney, Australia), a maker of home and distance monitoring devices for [MORE]

The Old Dominion’s New Tricks

In March, the Virginia General Assembly cut Medicaid spending by seven percent, required reimbursement for telemedicine services, and became the [MORE]

MUSING - Kiosk-Based Healthcare Delivery

Kiosk-based medicine has suddenly taken a new step with the next wave in direct to consumer marketing that is sweeping [MORE]

Dial-a-Doc

A California insurance brokerage is now offering small business employers a low cost alternative for [MORE]

MUSING - Automation as a Bridge

Whether or not healthcare insurance reform proceeds in Congress, true healthcare reform is proceeding.  Its sources are molecular [MORE]

Insurer Funds Hospital Quality Improvement Studies

California’s largest health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross (Woodlands Hills, CA) has appropriated $6m for on-line quarterly conferences with doctors [MORE]