...Digital Health Hypester Horde (D3H). Four finalists gain a real-world test environment in Ecumen communities for six months. Both Ecumen and MoJo will take small equity stakes in the finalists as well. Applications are due on 31 October; a 90-minute information session will take place on 13 August in Minneapolis (register here). Age Power Tech information and specs here. Note to developers: This may be Minneapolis, but Ecumen is not only #17 on the 2012 Ziegler/LeadingAge list of US largest non-profit senior living organizations, but also a quick Google or LeadingAge search will uncover their large ‘thought leader’ role in... Continue Reading
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Smartwatches as the 2014 tablet, redux
Mobihealthnews does a very good roundup of smartwatchesboth familiar and not in this 10 page report. Most are in kickstarter mode, raising funds and some may never see daylight, but all a Pointer to the Near Future: Pebble, AGENT, Kreyos Meteor (sounds like a sportscar), Sony Smartwatch, i’m Watch (from Italia), Motorola’s MotoActv, Androidly, Neptune Pine, the unfortunately named GEAK Watch, Toshiba, the Qualcomm Zola and the rumored Apple iWatch and Google Watch. If you want to watch smartwatches more, there is a website called The Smart Watch Review. 10 smartwatches that may take on fitness trackers Previously in TTA:... Continue Reading
Nurses using social media for health tech collaboration
Interesting article and longish (26:04) video on how nurses are using Google Hangout for collaboration, especially on using technology as part of their practice and getting involved in tech development. The four onscreen are located in Canada, Australia and Hawaii. The author is herself an RN and health care advisor for the US Strategic Perspective Institute, a think tank whose main job is advocating ‘saving jobs’, a Sisyphean task if there ever was one. (Don’t bother to look at the healthcare blog–the last entry there was 2010.) This is from ZDNet. Nurses use Google Hangouts to collaborate on technology... Continue Reading
Internet training for older people vs works-out-of-the-box mobiles
Echoing last week’s “the world has moved on” post on the WSD, the 3G Doctor (David Doherty) has an excellent opinion piece on how AGE UK should spend the money given to it by Google for making it to the final six in the Global Impact Challenge that supports British non-profits using technology to tackle tough problems. In discussing Age UK’s current plans to use the money to teach older people about the internet he says: “For the £500,000 AGE UK would spend on training 16,000 seniors they could give away (at retail price!) 10,000 of the latest designed for... Continue Reading
Soapbox: Further thoughts on CarelineUK, O2 & WSD
...the compact vital signs module becomes commonplace in smartphones – predicted at a recent Royal Academy of Engineering event as less than two years away – all the commonly required vital signs, apart from weight, will be easily measurable, and weight Bluetoothed or Zygbee’d from your bathroom scales. There are still problems to overcome with apps too – as the post on Tuesday pointed out, there are some 20k medical apps on the Apple Store, and just under half that on Google Play. The process is at an early stage to ensure their safety and efficacy, to give end-users the... Continue Reading
O2 to stop selling telecare & telehealth in the UK
...word of mouth. Perhaps we could learn from that model. There... rant over, enjoy the sunshine. Paul Tom Byrne WOW move over Google, that must be the fastest EOL'ing of a product for a long time. I wonder are there larger issues at play. I have to agree with Anon's comments re route to market, and use of council and domiciliary care providers. We tried the direct to consumer approach and it proved very difficult and are now partnering with Care providers, centralized care providers as well as telehealth monitoring orgs and it is proving to be somewhat easier. I... Continue Reading
Stats on medical apps on Apple & Android
iMedicalApps reports on the latest stats on medical apps on Apple & Android. Overall figures show Apple with more than twice as many as Android. It would be interesting to know how that split would be for apps aimed at patients – notwithstanding the previous post, I get the impression that the balance between the two is evening up. There is a stark contrast between these numbers (over 19,000 for Apple, just over 8,000 on Google Play) and the small number of medical apps approved by the FDA (just over 100 according to a comment on the report) and on... Continue Reading
Digital economy twice the size the government thought it was (General interest)
The FT reports that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research conservatively estimates that there are 270,000 digital companies compared to less than half that estimated by the government. The report, just out, supported by Google, is entitled Measuring the UK’s Digital Economy With Big Data. As the title suggests, it makes a strong case for the use of extensive data analysis in determining that the digital economy has spread into every sector of the economy. Hal Varian, Chief Economist of Google, wrote the foreword which includes the only reference to ‘biotech’ specifically in the report: “The UK is... Continue Reading
Google Glass through a doctor’s eyes
John Halamka, MD, CTO of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, writes about his experience testing Glass in the clinical environment and sees five useful areas–documentation, alerts and reminders, ED dashboards supplementing or displacing tablets, decision support (Watson, anyone?) “Just as the iPad has become the chosen form factor for clinicians today, I can definitely see a day when computing devices are more integrated into the clothing or body of the clinician.” Not the Object of Evil painted by the consumer IT gearheads and privacy advocates. Perhaps an ideal place for this? But is this Editor the only one who... Continue Reading
mHealth reality: Complicated (Uganda)
Do we detect a slight air of surprise in the comment of Pia Rafller, one of the authors of a report by Yale University’s department of Political Science that “The findings do show that the reality is more complicated than at times we like to think, that information can have a different impact on different types of people”? The report was on an mHealth project designed by Google and the Grameen Foundation’s AppLab which allowed users in 60 central Ugandan villages to text questions on sexual and reproductive health to a server and receive pre-prepared responses from a database. The... Continue Reading
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