...warned that ‘the security of Skype isn’t 100%’, 83% also said they were happy with the safeguarding of their privacy Two-thirds of patients joined the remote consultation from home but more than a quarter – 28% – skyped from their workplace. Dr Alice Fraser, the lead GP at the pilot practice Cavendish Health Centre in Westminster, said: ‘…I found the use of Skype particularly helpful as I could carry out consultations with my patients from home without having to travel to London, which meant I was able to better balance my work and family commitments. It does increasingly suggest that... Continue Reading
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Caregiving a la robot: GeriJoy, Giraff Plus, CosmoBot
...the Robot Caregivers article profiles the US’ GeriJoy, a ‘virtual pet’ on a tablet which acts as a therapeutic companion and, through the tablet camera, provides 24/7 video monitoring; Sweden’s Giraff Plus which combines home digital sensors with a tall mobile robot to comprehensively monitor personal well-being; and its pint-size cousin, CosmoBot (US), a character robot for education and therapeutics targeted to younger children. The wearables article notes AdhereTech‘s very smart IoT pill bottle and Proteus Digital Health’s smartpill to body sensor to smartphone monitor. There’s more about bionic prosthetic knees and making healthcare unhackable (!) promoting HP’s security software.... Continue Reading
Two free CES overview webinars on 7th & 8th January
...imaging beyond sports and evidential. Home Audio, Vision and Smart Home Control at International CES, 15.15 GMT on 8/1/15 – to register click here Latest TV trends including 8K display availability and content offerings, OLED, curved and bendable. Complexities in the multi-room audio category. Is incompatibility and fragmentation creating barriers to adoption? How important is the role of services such as Spotify and Deezer? Smart TV strategies and digital media adaptors, the adoption of Android TV, content deals, features and prices. Developments in high-resolution audio. The latest in smarthome control devices and applications for AV, home security and energy management.... Continue Reading
Looking back over Telehealth & Telecare Aware’s predictions for 2014
...to an EU Article 29 data protection opinion (actually published in 2013) that sought to clarify the legal framework applicable to the processing of personal data in the development, distribution and usage of apps on smart devices, and the obligations to take adequate security measures. Many apps got hacked too, including FDA-approved ones. There were also items, such as this one, demonstrating how complex the law is in this area in the US. In the EU, the arrival of the Data Protection Regulation in 2015 (now some say 2016) will undoubtedly improve data privacy significantly, though the failure to treat... Continue Reading
Breaking news out of the mHealth Summit
...Health’s cHealth Compass will use panel and other research to help companies, device manufacturers, startups and investors determine what end users–consumer and provider–want out of personal health tech. Focus groups, interviews and usability testing will help to determine product design, evaluation, assess applications and feasibility as well as interim/final product testing. Partners is already organizing in Massachusetts a 2,000-patient database which rewards participants $50 on registration and $110 annually to be in a monthly survey panel. cHealth Compass website, BetaBoston (Boston Globe) Health data connector/aggregator Validic demonstrates the attractiveness of Anything Big Data on with new clients including the Everyday... Continue Reading
Data streams of the future analyzed at NYeC Digital Health
...at the epicenter of the quake and saw that many of these folks did not go back to bed. Was it appropriate for Jawbone to look at their users’ data? This question may keep the social ethicist up at night. Patients need access to their data and can control their data. A notion of a social contract may be needed to avoid lawsuits and reduce the anxiety of patients and users. A unsettlingly comment was made by a member of the audience on the public security of our data…should there be safeguards on our data against cyberterrorism and insidious use?... Continue Reading
CES Unveiled New York
11 November, New York The annual event that is CES Unveiled in New York City is meant to be a nanoparticle-scale preview of International CES in Las Vegas, 6-9 January. It’s a smörgåsbord of what used to be called ‘consumer electronics’ and now is all about innovation–a taste of everything from ever-smarter video and audio to sensors, smarter homes with IoT (the cutely named Internet of Things), Big Data, robotics and (drum roll) Digital Health and the Quantified Self (QS). This Editor regrettably missed the opening briefing by Shawn DuBravac, CEA’s Chief Economist and Senior Director of Research which would... Continue Reading
Personalised health & care 2020 – required reading! (UK)
...right health and care choices’ – citizens to have full access to their care records and access to an expanding set of NHS accredited health and care apps and digital information services; give care professionals and carers access to all the data, information and knowledge they need’ – real-time digital information on a person’s health and care by 2020 for all NHS-funded services, and comprehensive data on the outcomes and value of services to support improvement and sustainability; make the quality of care transparent’ – publish comparative information on all publicly funded health and care services, including the results of... Continue Reading
The sheer screaming attractiveness of medical ID theft
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/screenshot-med-25.jpg” thumb_width=”170″ /]Harry Lime Lives! It’s the 1949 Vienna of ‘The Third Man’ when it comes to the black market of medical identity theft. Data breaches are easier than heisting penicillin off an Army Medical Corps truck and far less noticeable–there’s always a lag time in discovery as more than one health system (Community Health System) found. And protected health information (PHI) has value down the line. According to a report cited by FierceHealthIT: Simple data comes cheap: names, birth dates and health insurance contract with group numbers fetch a pedestrian $20. Add Social Security (SSI) numbers, banking and... Continue Reading
IBM Watson decision tools expand, lands at NYC HQ
...industry), retail, veterinary care, IT security and support, cognitive computing and of course healthcare. Spotlighted were three companies: @PointofCare, Welltok and GenieMD. New Jersey-based @PointofCare went live last month and is targeted to physicians who support patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Using their proprietary content plus information from PubMed, CDC and the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, they provided the base data for Watson to crunch. Watson’s facility for fast natural language processing created a reliability rating on the information of 79 percent for physicians and patients (according to MedPageToday). The company plans to add Watson capability to its current... Continue Reading
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