Upcoming international telehealth events

July 3, 2015 | by

In summer, the mind does turn to attending conferences in more interesting places. Here are three of interest:

27-29 July: 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics and Technology, Valencia, Spain at the Melia Valencia Palacio De Congresos. Information and registration

Their sister conference is the Global Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth at the Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks. As it’s 17-19 August, in Houston, pack a personal air conditioner and dehumidifier. Otherwise, it’s a nice city with much to recommend it. Information. Both are organized by the OMICS Group.

[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/guanoLogo.jpg” thumb_width=”125″ /]Finally, if you are looking for a startup boot camp and something truly different, here’s one with real ambiance. At M.E.S.H.–Medical Entrepreneur Startup Hospital–you’ll be camping in tents and sleeping in cots in a forest just outside of Berlin, Germany. 9-10 September. They invite investors as well–no information on if they get better tents. The objective? The fusion of humans and technology, including what gets under your skin.  Organizer is the interestingly named (and logoed) DocCheck Guano AG (above) along with KPMG and Grants4Apps.

Worcestershire County Council seeking vendors for ‘Future Lives: New Technology’ (UK)

July 3, 2015 | by

Susanne Woodman of the WCC was kind enough to inform this Editor that they are seeking up to five businesses to create a technology-based social care solution. They are inviting interested companies to meet with them for a presentation and informal discussions on Wednesday 22nd July 2015 at 10.30am County Hall, Spetchley Road, Worcester WR5 2NP. More tender details and how to apply for Future Lives is here.

Call for app presenters at the ADASS Care Apps Showcase 2015 – Monday 19 October 2015

June 24, 2015 | by

This social care-oriented event takes place at the Carriageworks Theatre, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 3AD.

This is a unique opportunity to present to key decision-makers, funders and influencers in the adult social care sector. About 200 people in one room will be waiting to be impressed by your app to help people with social care needs and their carers. These people will be in a position to recommend or directly commission such apps (and related services). The core part of the day will be a series of 5 minute pop-up pitches to the plenary audience. Delegates will then vote with their feet to hear a more detailed presentation and take part in Q&A discussion in a break-out room.

In short, it’s a unique opportunity to sell your offer and get immediate feedback from a key audience.

There are slots for just 11 presenters and there are hundreds of apps out there being deployed and developed. Therefore, there is a selection process that is fair and transparent.

‘Care apps’ included in this event fall broadly into two types:

a) Council-managed self-service applications, e.g. citizen portals to existing case management systems, e-marketplaces, online information & advice / triage, self assessment of needs & finance.
b) Consumer apps, e.g. for: sharing tasks between informal carers promoting community sharing or time-banking for people with care needs telecare for staff to use with carers / clients special user interfaces for the elderly to easily Skype, email, etc management of care finances monitoring wellbeing.

Both types of “app” might be combined with a service of some kind by you as app provider, e.g. a telephone support service.
Excluded: apps primarily designed to diagnose or monitor specific health conditions or any app that could be designated a medical device.

For full details on how to apply and the selection process are here.
All applications are to be sent to tina.gallagher@techuk.org by close of play on Tuesday 30 June.

Alternatively if you would like to attend as a delegate you can book online at the tech_UK website.

Health Datapalooza 2015: more data, better health

June 10, 2015 | by

Guest columnist and data analytics whiz Sarianne Gruber (@subtleimpact) sat in on the Health Data Consortium’s 2015 edition of Health Datapalooza last week in Washington, DC. It was all about the data that Medicare has been diligently harvesting. Also see the US-UK connection on obesity.

Health Datapalooza 2015, now in its sixth year, welcomed more than 2,000 innovators, healthcare industry executives, policymakers, venture capitalists, startups, developers, researchers, providers, consumers and patient advocates. Health Datapalooza brings together stakeholders to discuss how best to work the advance health and healthcare,” said Susan Dentzer, senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a member of the Health Data Consortium. The Consortium promotes health data best practices and information sharing; and works with businesses, entrepreneurs, and academia to help them understand how to use data to develop new products, services, apps and research insights. This year’s conference was held on May 31 through June 3 in Washington, DC. And how best to celebrate is with the gift of more data!

New Medicare Data Means More Transparency
The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its third annual update to the Medicare hospital inpatient and outpatient charge data on June 1, 2013. (more…)

A new MSc in Data Science for Research in Health & Biomedicine at UCL

May 27, 2015 | by

Anyone interested in pursuing an education in health informatics or data science at UCL is invited to an open evening on 25th June from 4:30pm at 222 Euston Road, London. This is billed as an informal event with an opportunity to meet staff and students and to learn more about the work of the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, the UCL Institute for Health Informatics and the Farr Institute.

The occasion will be the launch event for UCL’s new MSc in Data Science for Research in Health and Biomedicine. This programme is set to equip graduates for new careers in academia, healthcare organisations, pharmaceutical companies and consultancies dealing with Big Data. UCL will be working closely with NHS, research and commercial partners to deliver an innovative and practical programme that will give students real exposure to practical research in one of the top centres for data science in health and biomedicine.

Book your place here.

National UK Telehealthcare Awareness, KFC & Wayra – three recent items

May 25, 2015 | by

On June 3rd, UK Telehealthcare is holding their first National Telehealthcare Awareness day with events all over the country – follow the link to see what’s happening close to you!

This editor was alerted by a poster from the recently rehoused CUHTec who are supporting the  Mascot event at Merton. Other events that particularly caught this reviewer’s eye were at Welbeing/West Sussex, NEAT (remember when the N used to stand for LB Newham – now it’s Norwich) and Cair.

Next, who can resist a heading that reads KFC Tray Typer keyboard is finger clickin’ good. It turns out that KFC have created a wipe-clean tray mat that doubles as a Bluetoothed keyboard so you can continue typing without gumming up your mobile device with grease whilst enjoying their delectable fare.  Sadly these were only available in Germany, and then only for a set of new KFC openings. The plan apparently was that the mat was durable enough to get wiped down and re-used however (more…)

Call for presentation proposals: mHealth Summit (US)

May 22, 2015 | by
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mHealth2014_logo4c_FINAL-thumb.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]You have till 8 June to submit a proposal for a presentation at one of the largest digital health conferences in the US, the mHealth Summit (which is same place–near Washington D.C.–but a month earlier than usual–8-11 November). This year’s theme is “Anytime, Anywhere: Engaging Providers and Patients” and centered around one of five topics: clinical care, technology, patients and consumers, research, policy or business. The co-located Global mHealth Forum has a separate submittal process. Information and submittal link. Telehealth & Telecare Aware has been a media partner of the mHealth Summit US since 2010 and the 2015 Global mHealth App Developer Economics Study presented earlier this month at mHealth Summit Europe in Riga.

Last minute opportunity – long term care revolution LIVE 12/13 May & 1/2 June

May 8, 2015 | by

LTCR Live London is now just a few days away, and free to attend

Innovate UK are looking for the most ambitious early stage innovative businesses, start-ups and SMEs to join the Long Term Care Revolution Live.

Dates are: London 12/13 May 2015 & Edinburgh 1/2 June 2015

Across the two day events you will connect with emerging thought leaders, explore new ideas with leading health & care providers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, funders and designers; and engage in experiences that will challenge your current assumptions.

You will learn about a £4 million (more…)

ATA 2015: keynotes, concurrent sessions and trade show

April 22, 2015 | by

Now available on the ATA 2015 website are the full speaker lineup, including keynote speakers Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN’s chief medical correspondent and Yulun Wang, CEO of InTouch Health, Patrick Soon-Shiong, healthcare investor extraordinaire and Chairman/CEO of NantHealth and Reed Tuckson, ATA’s president elect. Click here to investigate the concurrent sessions. Speaker abstracts are helpfully compiled in Telemedicine & e-Health (PDF).  There are also pre-meeting professional development certificate courses on Saturday and Sunday, a separate Telemedicine Investor & Strategic Summit on Monday and Industry Executive Sessions on Monday and Tuesday. TTA is a media partner of the 20th Annual Meeting ATA 2015.

European tours for professionals in aged & disability care (Australia)

April 10, 2015 | by

Sydney-based Community Resourcing Worldwide and CORAL (The Community of Regions for Assisted Living) have three Professional Development Tours to Europe primarily for Australian professionals. These tours are designed as professional exchanges of best practices with international experts in community aged and disability care to explore practice, policy and funding models. Visits are arranged to state-of-the-art facilities and community initiative programs that exhibit innovative approaches to service delivery, selected to showcase outstanding approaches to service delivery and innovation. Particular focus has been made on the application of assistive, enabling and operational technologies which are significantly changing the service and workforce models deployed as well as achieving greater health and social outcomes for the consumers of services.

  1. 8 June 2015, starting in Geneva and held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference On Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST 2015)
  2. 15 June, Netherlands-Denmark
  3. 22 June, Catalonia

CRW website. Tour information and registration PDF. Or you may contact Elizabeth Dodd on 0457 838 570 for more information: liz@communityresourcing.com.au

Participate in the 2015 Global mHealth App Developer Economics Study

March 5, 2015 | by
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-mHealth-App-Developer-Economics-study-banner.jpg” thumb_width=”250″ /]TTA readers are invited to participate in the fifth annual mHealth App Economics survey, sponsored by research2guidance in collaboration with mHealth Summit Europe and HIMSS. The study will look at the mHealth app market, how apps generate revenue, how behavior could be changed by apps, the use of APIs and sensors as well as other related topics–and is the largest industry survey on mHealth app development.

Click here to go to our exclusive link and participate in the survey. The survey is available till 26 April. Share your opinions and experience on how mHealth apps impact healthcare delivery now and in the next five years. Plus, every participant will receive the chance to win one of five free entry tickets to the mHealth Summit Europe in Riga, Latvia 11-12 May, where the results will be presented; a free copy of the 2015 report as well as the possibility to see initial results after completing the survey. Download link for the 2014 study (PDF).

TTA is a media partner of the 2015 Global mHealth App Developer Economics Study, and was a media sponsor of this year’s US mHealth Summit.

Keynote speakers at ATA 2015

March 4, 2015 | by
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ata-2015-300X145.jpg” thumb_width=”200″ /]There’s a diverse group of keynoters at this year’s American Telemedicine Association annual meeting in Los Angeles. They include Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon; Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, founder/CEO of the Healthcare Transformation Institute and NantWorks; Yulun Wang, PhD, President of ATA and CEO of InTouch Health; Reed V. Tuckson, MD, ATA President-Elect, Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections, former Chief of Medical Affairs at UnitedHealth Group and Senior Vice President for Professional Standards of the American Medical Association;LTG (Ret.) James Peake, MD, ATA Vice President, President of CGI Federal, former US Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Surgeon General of the US Army; and Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. For more information on ATA 2015 and to register, click here. Telehealth & Telecare Aware is a media partner of ATA 2015.

American Telemedicine Association (ATA) 2015

February 23, 2015 | by

2-5 May 2015, Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California 

ATA’s annual meeting for 2015 connects like-minded telemedicine, telehealth, mHealth professionals and entrepreneurs from around the globe. With over 6,000 attendees, 13 educational tracks and the largest telemedicine trade show in the world, the ATA meeting is a premier forum to learn and network, featuring:

For more information and to register, see our special link here. Telehealth & Telecare Aware is pleased to be again an official media partner of this year’s ATA. 

American Geriatrics Society: call for technology startups

February 20, 2015 | by

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS), the US association of physicians and other healthcare professionals who care for older adults, is inviting startup technology companies to a special exhibition area during their annual meeting 15-17 May in Washington DC (National Harbor). Along with a modestly priced display in the Technology Innovations Pavilion, 12 companies will also receive feedback and coaching sessions with geriatrics clinicians plus full conference access for two. Companies are selected on the basis of their application and the value of their technology to geriatric patients and caregivers. Applications are open until 15 March and apparently are not restricted to US companies. AGS page, application  Hat tip to Wen Dombrowski, MD, of Resonate Health.

Healthcare Innovation Breakfast Series (Dallas, Texas)

February 18, 2015 | by

Having met and been impressed at mHealth Summit by Health Wildcatters [TTA 26 Apr 13], a Dallas Texas-based healthcare accelerator, they are doing some smart marketing in sponsoring a series of local networking breakfasts called The Pulse to connect entrepreneurs, medical professionals, and other innovators from the thriving Dallas healthcare and business communities with healthcare startups. Their launch is Thursday 26 February from 7:30-9am. Coffee and continental breakfast is provided and the cost is an affordable $15. Reserve here. Hat tip to Hubert Zajicek of Health Wildcatters via Twitter

Integrating spiritual care into healthcare: conference (US)

February 12, 2015 | by

2015 Caring for the Human Spirit, 20-22 April, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando Florida

The Health Care Chaplaincy Network (HCCN), which we’ve recently profiled in ‘Chaplain Care for Veterans’, has been integrating online and tele-consultative (email, phone and video chat) resources into spiritual and mental health care in chaplaincy service. This year’s conference highlights include a workshop on TeleChaplaincy: The Online Practice of Professional Chaplaincy. Featured speakers are primarily from the US, but include The Rev. John Swinton, University of Aberdeen, King’s College School of Divinity. Conference registration is also available for a real-time webcast of all sessions and workshops. Brochure  Previously: Patient engagement meets ‘palliative care’ in a care plan pilot with VOX Telehealth [Disclosure: Editor Donna is a volunteer on the HCCN’s marketing advisory council.]