...HealthSpot Station, patient adherence, FDA approval of apps and the home as a healthcare hub. Robots were the #4 trend: consumer robots such as home cleaners Roomba, Ecovacs; robots in eldercare; humanoid robots like NAO; robotic prosthetics and exoskeletons. Digital health will again be showcased as a TechZone as well as in the Digital Health Summit and SilverSummit conferences. Startups including health tech will be located in Eureka Park and later stage in Eureka Park Next. (More information at CESweb) The press briefing was supplemented by a small show floor, very short on health tech but long on snacks and... Continue Reading
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Can telehealth kiosks fill the treatment gap?
...the next three months for kids between 3-18 (accompanied by a parent). The kiosks have both videoconferencing and telehealth tools, and the visit is assisted by a trained attendant. UH is studying whether the kiosk positively impacts cost of care and Emergency Room (ER/ED) visits. HealthSpot Station has enjoyed strong funding (about $10 million in Series C) but the kiosk system is still limited to a few states (previously mentioned Florida and in their home state of Ohio). The after-hours doctor visit of the future arrives in Ohio via telemedicine kiosks Previously in TTA: HealthSpot, Netsmart ally for telemedicine kiosks... Continue Reading
Doctor disciplined for using Skype for telemedicine consults
...better example was highlighted at the Epic EHR User Conference last week with Stanford (University) Hospital and Clinics. Epic has developed a software add-in for video consults which integrates three ways: 1) with the patient’s EHR, 2) with scheduling and keeping the appointments into the physician workflow and 3) with third-party identity verification services. The ease of use demonstrated in the Epic video is a real pointer to the future. An earlier telemedicine test was done with Stanford Dermatology and the Cisco HealthPresence platform. InformationWeek, ScienceRoll. Previously in TTA: Telemedicine in the TIME Swampland, HealthSpot, Netsmart ally for telemedicine kiosks... Continue Reading
New York, New York, it’s a health tech town (Part 3/wrapup)
...hearing wellness of Etymotic (see Part 2) kicked off well with audio of daily living’s assaults on the ears: 90dB in your average subway station, earphones turned to the max blast. The company’s focus is on hearing protection, assistance and safe headphones especially ‘kid friendly’. MD Revolution‘s CEO presented ‘RevUp’, a self-tracking platform for patients and employees that adds a genomic/DNA/blood test twist to the usual menu, but failed to differentiate this platform from the gaggle already out there. The head of Aetna’s new CarePass patient platform, launched only in the prior week, touted their aggregation of 20 health and... Continue Reading
Concussion monitoring in test in NY high school (US)
Following our coverage of CTE and mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury) at the GCRI presentation last week, a small-town football team is one of the first to pilot, albeit for three days, a new concussion detection technology developed by i1Biometrics. The Middletown, NY high school tested their Impact Sensing Mouth Guard that measures hits to better assess the likelihood of cumulative blows and outright head injuries. The mouth guards recognize cheek tissue for activation, and function as a standard mouth guard plus accelerometer and gyroscope to detect the hard-to-determine rotational acceleration. Data is then transmitted wirelessly to a monitoring station... Continue Reading
HealthSpot, Netsmart ally for telemedicine kiosks
HealthSpot, which debuted its staffed telemedicine/telehealth Stations at CES 2013 (and this Editor previewed at CES New York in November), is partnering with behavioral health EHR/practice/clinical case management software provider Netsmart to add that capability to its kiosk consults. Announced at ATA yesterday, the MedCityNews article is sketchy on exactly how this will be integrated–will it be an option or will select kiosks be dedicated to behavioral health only–but this is likely a first for telementalhealth (another term in our lexicon!) Kiosk placements can be especially useful in rural areas which have a paucity of mental health/psychiatric providers (see TTA... Continue Reading
Two major telehealth and telecare programmes officially launched in Scotland
Two major Telehealth and Telecare programmes worth £2.8 million were officially launched yesterday by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Alex Neil MSP when he visited a local monitoring station within East Ayrshire Council. The Minister heard via video link from a patient who told the minister how the technology has made a difference to how she has been able to manage her COPD. More info: East Ayrshire pioneers new digital health system Cumnock Chronicle.... Continue Reading
Smart pill bottles 2.0
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pill_bottle_small-4e1e1544a6de186dda09ddee4027d127.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Back in 2009, this Editor was wowed by pill container-reminder Vitality GlowCaps, and has been cheered by its recent developments in developing a reminder pouch for non-pill medications. Now NYC-based startup AdhereTech adds to the med reminder picture through a specially designed compact bottle for pills or liquids that not only has lights, speakers and a built-in 45-day-long battery, but also is fully M2M–each bottle connects from anywhere via cellular 3G and LTE with no base station required. Thus the containers can be used by those ‘on the go’. Sensors in the containers also measure humidity and... Continue Reading
Your weekend outrage: Indian government plans ‘alert device’ to stem crime
...just in case: Do not try this at home![/b] The 'ring' finger on each hand is very vulnerable if you can quickly grab and pull it upwards (ie towards the back of their hand). You do not need to keep holding the finger so you quickly move yourself to a safe distance and avoid a counter attack. There are others ... ask at your local police station for any training that may be available to community groups. That said even these are of limited value in a culture where the victims do not believe they can stand up to oppression.... Continue Reading
Telehealth on the e-commerce model
...a few such as the adopters of American Well, and of course the VA) have not included or downplayed online visits in their benefits, perhaps fearing a spike in utilization as Dr. Williams mentions. But the good doctor misses a key factor–that this is not a one-way street, and that the consumer demand hasn’t materialized, despite the additional parallels of saving time and travel, which is why his argument seems to be a ‘past tense’ one. Perhaps virtual visits need to be taken outside payers into a concierge care, worksite, pharmacy clinic (enabled through a kiosk such as HealthSpot Station)... Continue Reading
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