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February 2013

Welcome to an additional supplement from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Knowledge Transfer Network and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network.

This supplement to the February 2013 Newsletter provides a summary of news stories relating to Telecare and Telehealth from the UK and around the world. They cover the following topic areas:

a) Policy, funding and trends

To view information on policy, funding and trends that may be of interest, click on the links below:

#Fallschat, 4 February 2013 (UK)

#OTalk - Using Risk Stratification to case find people with Long Term Conditions - 5 Feb 2013 (UK)

£11 million funding boost to improve NHS prosthetic care for war veterans - DH (UK)

£75,000 cap on bills for long-term care disappoints campaigners (UK)

'10,000 more GPs needed' for NHS to cope with increasing workload - Telegraph (UK)

1000 Lives Plus Programme Area: Reducing Falls in the Community (Wales) (UK)

12 February 2013, Jeremy Hunt, Reform, An NHS that treats people as individuals (UK)

2011 Census Analysis, Provision of Unpaid Care in England and Wales, 2011 (UK)

2013/14 NHS Standard Contract published NHS Commissioning Board (UK)

- Telehealth does produce savings

3,000 more patients have died needlessly in hospital

7 ideas on how ‘online technology’ can save the NHS

A bigger say in the NHS for patients (UK)

A bill to re-instate the NHS?

A Charter for Health Data - World Economic Forum

A jolt to the system and catalyst for change? Dr Mark Newbold talks hopes and fears for Francis report

A narrative for person-centered coordinated (‘integrated’) care - National Voices (UK)

A National Action Plan To Support Consumer Engagement Via E-He

A Paperless Future? (UK)

Accessible technology is entering the mainstream and transforming lives

Adult services directors warn of service cuts and declining quality

Alzheimer's Society launches Dementia Friends information sessions

Alzheimer's Society publishes data on dementia diagnosis rates

Andy Burnham reveals Labour's 'Whole-Person' vision on health and care

Anticipating the Francis Inquiry report -The King's Fund

Are delayed transfers a growing problem? | The King's Fund

Are social care personal budgets working?

Argyll launches new range of personal safety smartphone applications

Asking tough questions about primary care

Award-winning smartphone app helps prevent potentially fatal blood clots

BBC News - 13,000 cancer deaths 'can be prevented' (UK)

BBC News - A&E waits and delays 'worsening' as winter bites (UK)

BBC News - A&E waits 'highest for a decade' (UK)

BBC News - Elderly 'suffer from poor home care' (UK)

BBC News - Going paperless 'would save NHS billions' (UK)

BBC News - Many cancer patients are struggling alone, charity says (UK)

BBC News - Merge NHS and social care, says Labour (UK)

BBC News - More than one in 10 providing unpaid care (UK)

BBC News - NHS and health reforms in England felt by patients (UK)

BBC News - NHS consultants must be better managed, watchdog says (UK)

BBC News - NHS controversy: A sign of things to come? (UK)

BBC News - NHS Highland to lead remote healthcare project (UK)

BBC News - Scots GPs 'could save NHS £26m' (UK)

BBC News - Social care: Jeremy Hunt's plans aim to bring 'greater peace of mind' (UK)

BBC News - Stafford Hospital: Hiding mistakes 'should be criminal offence' (UK)

BBC News - Stafford Hospital: the scandal that shames the NHS (UK)

BBC News - The NHS's troubled relationship with technology (UK)

BBC News - Thousands of carers set to lose benefits (UK)

BBC News - Wards dangerously understaffed, say nurses in survey (UK)

BBC News - Why the elderly care crisis is here to stay (UK)

Benefits of technology shown in mobile health worker project - Department of Health (UK)

BGS responds to the Francis Report

Big grey area: how will we regulate m-health?

Blood screening that is preventing heart attacks, but not in England

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Smith: A paperless NHS by 2018? (UK)

Burnham - hand control of health budget to local authorities

Cabinet Office: Barriers to Choice Review

Call for additional ITK themes - NHS Connecting for Health

Call for 'revolution' in care for older people

Cambridge Community NHS Trust tenders for WSDII Local (UK) (UK)

Cameron Announces Dementia Champions

Can online innovations enhance social care? Nominet Trust (UK)

Cap on lifetime care costs only tinkers around edges, say critics (UK)

Care Choices helping people choose and compare good quality care and support

Care funding: read the small print Public Finance Opinion

Care Homes and NHS Need to Work Together (UK)

Care homes and NHS need to work together, research finds (UK)

Care Quality Commission response to Francis Report Care Quality Commission (UK)

Case-management DES not supported by evidence'

Cases of neglect exist across NHS, says Jeremy Hunt Society (UK)

CCG calls GPs into 'crisis point' hospital to help assess every patient for discharge (UK)

CCG Facing Record £30m Debts (UK)

CCGs fund blankets and fuel bills in cold weather Practical Commissioning News Pulse Today (UK)

'Choice in social care has worked for some; it must now work for all' - Adult Care Blog (UK)

Choice is an embattled word in public services

Chubb launches flexible telecare hub unit 'CareUnity' (UK)

CIO survey finds mobile-enabled healthcare a top trend

Clearing up confusion on commissioning - HSJ (UK)

Commission for quality and innovation scheme: data available (UK)

Commissioning - The Nuffield Trust

Commissioning Show - Primary Care Commissioning (UK)

Competition in healthcare will mean state subsidies for private firms

Competition Regulations under S.75 of the Health and Social Care Act (UK)

Consultation on QOF indicators (UK)

Copy of Co-ordinated care narrative by Don Redding on Prezi (UK)

Costing the burden of ill health related to physical inactivity in Scotland (UK)

Councils cutting spend on care of elderly and disabled, says National Audit Office (UK)

CQC moots chief inspector of social care role in wake of Mid-Staffs (UK)

CQC: Most home care good but missed visits blight some services (UK)

CSUs: NHS commissioning support units set to spend around £670m a year (UK)

Cui bono? again - who exactly stands to gain from the NHS IT initiative?

Current NHS Innovation Challenges « NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes (UK)

Cuts are putting quality of care at risk, say NHS managers | BMJ (UK)

Dan Wellings: public perceptions on health and social care funding The King's Fund (UK)

David Cameron's prescription for NHS failings: target pay of nurses (UK)

Dementia Friends (UK)

Department seeks views on NICE standards to improve quality of social care Department of Health (UK)

DH asks GPs to design alternative to dementia DES (UK)

DH to investigate bonkers' rationing of diabetes testing strips (UK)

DH website to move to GOV.UK in March 2013 Department of Health (UK)

Digital outreach to health and wellbeing boards (with tweets)

Digital policy engagement session at Sprint 13 Digital Health

Dilnot 'regrets' decision to set social care cap at £75,000 (UK)

Do we have a problem with GPs?

DocCom awarded grant by the Technology Strategy Board (UK) (UK)

Draft Care and Support Bill - Written Evidence 2012/13 (UK)

Dragons' Den' event promotes innovation in healthcare

Early action saves millions “ the government must not delay David Robinson

eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020: More equality, less fragmentation? - European Public Health Alliance

eHealth case studies - RCN (UK)

E-Health Insider :: 'Air traffic control' for Cumbria (UK)

E-Health Insider :: CSUs to spend £670m a year (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Dalton leaves NHS CB for BT health job (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Directors of information for regions (UK)

E-Health Insider :: GP develops patient engagement tool (UK)

E-Health Insider :: GPs can refuse new data extract (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Heart a-hack (UK)

E-Health Insider :: High road, remote care (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Hunt wants paperless NHS in five years (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Info centre to run DMICs (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Is Hunt's dream possible? (UK)

E-Health Insider :: It's big, but is it clever? (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Joe's view of computer assisted self care (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Jonathan Kay appointed 'NHS CB CCIO' (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Leadership key to paperless NHS (UK)

E-Health Insider :: More GPs in Web (UK)

E-Health Insider :: National feedback system needed (UK)

E-Health Insider :: NHS CB tries to spot further Mid Staffs' (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Paperless NHS a 'struggle' to achieve (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Power to the people (UK)

E-Health Insider :: PwC finds 'even more' IT savings (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Scotland builds online platform (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Scotland gets 111 (UK)

E-Health Insider :: The revolution will be digitised (UK)

E-Health Insider :: Trust creates GP app (UK)

eHealthNews.eu Portal Jeremy Hunt Challenges NHS to Go Paperless by 2018 (UK)

Elderly care: a frail step forward

Elderly people 'disfranchised by social networking'

Elderly warned of growing isolation as face-to-face care cut - Telegraph (UK)

Embsay patient gets treatment down the phone line from Airedale Hospital (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus) (UK)

eMental Health - NHS confed document (UK)

Emerging Technology For e-Healthcare

Enterprise social networking for healthcare leader DocCom awarded Technology Strategy Board grant (UK)

Exclusive: Public health threat as GPs face LES cuts (UK)

Exercise has a moderate positive impact on depression in people with heart failure

Expert group to oversee strengthening of NHS Constitution (UK)

Experts question size of savings from NHS going paperless? BMJ (UK)

Facing the future: how will we pay for the next 50 years of care? The King's Fund

Final grant allocations for adults personal social services (UK)

Five minute Francis: Chapter 20 - Culture - Illusions of Autonomy (UK)

Francis report highlights need for transparency in all public bodies

Francis report shows NHS is not the national treasure we thought it was (UK)

Francis report will be biggest leadership challenge the NHS has seen (UK)

Francis report: culture change in the NHS will take years (UK)

Francis Report: PM statement on Mid Staffs Public Inquiry (UK)

Francis report: we cannot miss the chance to deliver better care (UK)

Francis report: what went wrong with NHS leadership? (UK)

Francis response: immediate' probe ordered into hospitals with high death rates News (UK)

Francis's legal rigour is exactly what's needed (UK)

General health in England and Wales from the 2011 Census - YouTube (UK)

Government finds £1bn a year to cap self-funders' social care costs (UK)

Government warned over rapid telehealth rollout risks (UK)

Govt gives funds for improving council websites and public engagement (UK)

GP visits 'predict care home deaths' (UK)

GP's not convinced about trailblazing technology (From Darlington and Stockton Times) (UK)

GPs should have right to contact consultants directly, Government review finds (UK)

GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems Society guardian.co.uk (UK)

Guidance published on Difficult Conversations in Dementia?

Half a billion people sign up for Twitter

Half of all GPs 'to slash services in pay squeeze' Health Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express (UK)

Handing healthcare funding to local government would be a shakeup too far (UK)

Has Wales found the winning formula for healthcare?

Have NHS managers got the right skills? (UK)

Health and health services: the next 20 years Opinion

Health and Wellbeing Boards bulletin

Health infusion by healthcare practitioners in the national health services (NHS) (UK)

Health Management and Policy Alert: 21st century NHS and social care: delivering integration (UK)

Health Management and Policy Alert: Local Healthwatch contingency planning: Plan B' (UK)

Health Management and Policy Alert: Quality accounts: reporting arrangements for 2012/13 (UK)

Health Management and Policy Alert: Telehealth and telemedicine case studies (UK)

Health Management and Policy Alert: Transferring public health staff from PCTs to LAs (UK)

Health Policy Summit 2013 | The Nuffield Trust

Health sector is heading towards paperless records in the future (UK)

Health spending could double by 2061 Society guardian.co.uk (UK)

Healthcare UK launches in Dubai Department of Health (UK)

Higher cap on care costs is no help to majority, warns Labour (UK)

Home Care across Europe

Home care providers need to adapt to survive? (UK)

Housing associations are becoming social investment groups

Housing LIN Newsletter February 2013 (UK)

Housing statistics

How CCGs can commission to support those in poor housing (UK)

How is the health and social care system performing? - The King's Fund

How 'light-touch' direct payments can deliver for clients and taxpayers (UK)

How Technology is Driving the New Age of the Quantified Self

How to spot future patients | Health Service Journal (UK)

Hunt announces plans for inspector of primary care (UK)

IAPT three-year report: The first million patients (UK)

i-Focus Warm Neighbourhoods® pilot service goes live i-focus (UK)

Impact measurement is essential to winning public service contracts Voluntary Sector Network (UK)

Importance of finger prick tests in managing type 1 diabetes highlighted (UK)

Improving end of life care through innovation (UK)

Improving personal budgets for older people - Latest Self-directed Support Forum Products - Self-directed Support Forum - Self-directed support and personal budgets

Improving the health of the nation infographics The King's Fund

In Control releases information on two new health programmes - In Control

Individual Service Funds for Homecare - In Control (UK)

Infection prevention and control in care homes: information resource published (UK)

Information overload: tackling bureaucracy in the NHS (UK)

Inheritance tax freeze to fund social care cap of £75,000 (UK)

Integrated care The Nuffield Trust

Integrated Care: How is it Achieved? Kirsty Hough Commissioning.GP

Integrating Self Blood Pressure Monitoring Into the Routine Management of Uncontrolled Hypertension: Translating Evidence to Practice - Angell - 2013 - The Journal of Clinical Hypertension - Wiley Online Library

Intellect Technology Association Blog » Blog Archive » Re: How to avoid serious repercussions' from NHSCB (UK)

Introducing telecare for 3,000 adults, with no disruption to their care  - Wiltshire (You Tube) (UK)

Invicta Telecare awarded Viridians telephone call handling contract

Is Andy Burnham eyeing a US import for the NHS? (UK)

Jeremy Hunt 16 Jan paperless NHS speech text « EHealth Insider (UK)

Jeremy Hunt and Norman Lamb quizzed on care bill (with tweets) · mithransamuel · Storify (UK)

Jeremy Hunt challenges NHS to go paperless by 2018 (UK)

Jeremy Hunt plans reforms to tackle NHS regulatory 'madness' (UK)

Jeremy Hunt: care home staff must report failures (UK)

Jeremy Hunt: cut red tape to prevent another Stafford hospital scandal (UK)

Jeremy Hunt: 'Let's cut nurses' paperwork by a third' (UK)

Jeremy Hunt: social care reforms are 'protecting people's inheritance' - video (UK)

Jeremy Hunt's IT aspiration for England 'far from reality', GPC says (UK)

Jeremy Hunt's proposed cap on care costs is disappointing (UK)

Join up health and care services - Labour (UK)

Joyce Redfearn confirmed as National Director for Health and Wellbeing Board Implementation Modernisation of health and care (UK)

Just 500 patients register with out-of-area practices as most GPs shun boundary pilots (UK)

Just what the doctor ordered? How should the case for NHS reconfiguration be made? (UK)

King's Fund - 10 priorities for commissioners (UK)

Labour risks another 'death tax' row with social care blueprint (UK)

Labour's plans for health and social care would not require more top-down? NHS changes, says Burnham BMJ

Less than two months left to apply for free Telecare offer - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (UK)

Local Authorities - Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny Regulations (UK)

Long-term care cap 'just the beginning', GPs warn (UK)

Long-term social care: Options for self-funders (UK)

MacMillan Rolls Out m-Learning In The Medical Industry By Giving Its Nurses mHealth Training

Major shake-up for telecare service (From York Press) (UK)

Making it better? Assuring high-quality care in the NHS (UK)

Making social care work for disabled adults in England - Scope Report (UK)

Managing NHS hospital consultants - National Audit Office

Mark Newbold: Key lessons for hospital mergers (UK)

Massive variations in older people's experience of personal budgets'

Measure blood pressure in both arms, GPs advised

Mergers, 24/7 working and ratings - mind the gaps The Nuffield Trust (UK)

Microsoft Kinect could undercut telemedicine systems

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry (UK)

Mid Staffs inquiry: 'Failing NHS managers must be sacked' (UK)

Mid Staffs scandal: NHS faces another bout of initiative-itis (UK)

Mid-Staffs report should be the start of a debate not the automatic solution Blog (UK)

Mike Farrar: is reconfiguration necessary to deliver care in the future? The King's Fund (UK)

Millions of over 50s fail to repair their home as they can't afford it, new survey suggests Mail Online (UK)

Minimal barriers, patience necessary for successful telehealth adoption

Ministers urged to find £2bn to fund 'moderate' care threshold (UK)

Missed appointments 'cost millions' | Health Service Journal (UK)

Mobile internet devices 'will outnumber humans this year'

Mobile phones may not solve health challenges in poor countries (UK)

Monitor publishes new provider licence | News, events and publications (UK)

My Diabetes My Way - Diabetes Information in Scotland

New consumer bodies for healthcare are far behind schedule, claims Labour (UK)

New Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships announced Department of Health (UK)

New funding reforms announced for care and support Department of Health (UK)

New infrastructure, systems to be top IT priority for NHS in 2013 (UK)

New NHS database will succeed with open source and agile, says supplier (UK)

New report warns of the risk of Government's accelerated telehealth roll-out (UK)

New study highlights positive impact of digital technology in health and social care (UK)

New text messaging program to help those with prostate cancer

New Year, new 'to do' list The Nuffield Trust

NHS 24 calls to be free of charge - Health Information and Self Care Advice for Scotland (UK)

NHS blueprint to shake up emergency care provisions, says director (UK)

NHS bodies to produce common vision for integrated care News (UK)

NHS chief Sir David Nicholson faces judgment day over Mid Staffs scandal (UK)

NHS chief: Hospitals are bad for old people's health (UK)

NHS chief's comments 'jeopardise care of elderly' (UK)

NHS Commissioning Board local area teams map: naming with LAT-itude (UK)

NHS Confederation comments on King's Fund quarterly monitoring report (UK)

NHS Confederation gives 'cautious welcome' to Government's social care funding plans (UK)

NHS Confederation releases joint statement on health and social care integration with ADASS (UK)

NHS defends £1.8m telehealth system (From York Press) (UK)

NHS Dorset - Telehealth (UK)

NHS faces calls to put patient records online within five years (UK)

NHS Hackday 2013 - Dementia Scrapbook The DrDoctor Blog (UK)

NHS information service for parents reaches 100,000 signups | Department of Health (UK)

NHS leaders pledge to repair public confidence on "sad and shameful day" (UK)

NHS opens door on widespread A&E closures (UK)

NHS rationing should not be driven by cost (UK)

NHS regulator rules out tax exemptions for private health firms (UK)

NHS set to employ one in eight people by 2060 (UK)

NHS specialised commissioning hubs and clinical senates maps (UK)

NHS Standard Contract publication passes to the NHS Commissioning Board (UK)

NHS still obsessed with waiting time targets, says ex-A&E tsar (UK)

NHS today - YouTube (UK)

NHS trusts should be more open about board performance, says report (UK)

NICE announces its Collaborating Centre for Social Care (UK)

NICE approves device that detects Atrial Fibrillation (UK)

Nicholson: 'more' community focused care required (UK)

Nike Makes FuelBand Data Available for Connected Health Apps

Nike+ FuelBand vs Fitbit (Quantified Self)

No more Mid Staffs' sounds so simple. It will be anything but (UK)

Not in my hospital: the delicate process of NHS reforms (UK)

Nuffield Trust responds to the Government's announcement on social care funding The Nuffield Trust (UK)

Nurchat: Fortnightly Twitter Chats for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals » NurChat Transcript 05/02/13 “ Apps, tablets and mobile devices in healthcare

Obesity crisis: doctors demand soft drinks tax and healthier hospital food (UK)

Offender health care IT services: Operating model published | NHS Commissioning Board

Old and new will bring value to the table - but not all need a seat at it (UK)

One quarter of home care providers in England are failing to meet key standards

Online link to doctors for Highland patients - Health - (UK)

Overview of responses to NHS Constitution consultation published

Paperless NHS' plan to put patients' medical details online Politics The Guardian (UK)

Paperless NHS: Jeremy Hunt leads discussion Department of Health (UK)

Patient Choice Extension Scheme: arrangements for patients registered under Patient Choice Scheme Department of Health

Patient Opinion Blog Will the NHS ever believe the online customer is always right? (UK)

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs): update on data collection

Patients Association concerned over negative effects from GP contract changes (UK)

Patients Association sounds alarm over 'flawed' NHS complaints code Society The Observer (UK)

Patients must be involved in decisions to change their medication Peter Dawson (UK)

Personal budgets process 'cuts social work productivity

Personal Health Budgets: 10 features of an effective process - In Control

Pilot to help Parkinson's patients speak louder (UK)

Pioneer House leads with Tele-Health Centre | Mudgee Guardian

Pioneering NHS trust goes paperless (UK)

PMS contract reviews to be 'more rigorous' from April | News Article | Pulse Today (UK)

Principles matter: reforming social care funding The Nuffield Trust (UK)

Prisons 'ill-equipped to deal with rising dementia population' (UK)

Production line' hospitals fail elderly, Labour warns (UK)

Progress Housing Group Ltd | Services | Lifeline (UK)

Provider-managed personal budgets 'could end home care by the minute' (UK)

Public health surveillance strategy overview published Department of Health

Public urged to buy insurance to pay for £75,000 care bills - Home News - UK - The Independent (UK)

Pulse monitor 'will pick up thousands of stroke risk patients' (UK)

Quality in the new health system - maintaining and improving quality from April 2013 NHS Commissioning Board (UK)

Quarter of homecare services for elderly are substandard, says health regulator (UK)

RCGP Personal Health Budgets Guidance (UK)

Rebecca Rosen: Trends and drivers of change in primary care | The Nuffield Trust (UK)

Red tape holding back clinical trials

Reforming social care funding: a step in the right direction? The King's Fund

Review of home care services | Care Quality Commission (UK)

Ricky Gervais: the elderly are neglected and 'forgotten' by society

Scrap preferred provider lists for social care, urges government review (UK)

Search catalogue - Health & Social Care Information Centre

Second wave of CCGs authorised (UK)

Seeking patient feedback in the NHS Top tips (UK)

Self Directed Support Scotland (UK)

Setting Priorities for Local Healthwatch « Local Democracy and Health

Shared Decision Making (SDM) - NHS (UK)

Shifting care closer to home: slogan or solution? The King's Fund (UK)

Should I use health apps?

Show home has technology aimed at allowing older people to live independently (From York Press)

Showcase reveals health innovations - Northern Ireland (UK)

Sir Bruce Keogh announces final list of outliers NHS Commissioning Board (UK)

Sir Bruce Keogh to lead review of urgent and emergency services in England NHS Commissioning Board (UK)

Skype launches video-messaging service - Telegraph

Smartphone application can assist with concussion detection, treatment

Social care cap to be set at £75,000 (UK)

Social care performance throughout Wales still far too variable (UK)

Social care reforms: Almost 2 million pensioners will be denied state help (UK)

Social care TV: Personal Budgets: Health and Social Care Integration (UK)

South London Healthcare NHS Trust: Decision by Secretary of State Department of Health (UK)

South Manchester CCG - Strategic Commissioning Document - 2012 to 2015 (UK)

Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years The King's Fund

Spending on health and social care: exploring the data The King's Fund (UK)

Spread and Adoption - NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Spreading Good Practice: Sarah Fraser: Cutting the cloth does not a slimmer NHS make (UK)

Stafford scandal: nine more hospital trusts to be investigated over mortality rates

Supporting People funding boost is a mirage for cash-strapped councils

Supporting People with Long Term Conditions - DH (UK)

Tapping into online communities brings dramatic results in health

Technology Strategy Board Competitions Technology Inspired Innovation (UK)

Telecare and call system integration (CA)

Telehealth is win-win' for NHS (UK)

Telehealth revolution in tatters after snub by doctors - Main Section - Yorkshire Post (UK)

Telehealth will need more support from GPs to take off (UK)

Ten top tips for NHS tweeters

The 10 essential qualities for leadership in the NHS (UK)

The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) QORU

The case for transformational change in the NHS | Health Service Journal (UK)

The cost of government: what does the new transactions data really tell us? News guardian.co.uk (UK)

The evolution of clinical commissioning: learning from local experience | The Nuffield Trust (UK)

The Francis Inquiry · TheKingsFund · Storify (UK)

The future of health and social care timeline The King's Fund (UK)

The future of primary care | BMJ

The loneliness epidemic

The Marmot public health review: how much progress has been made?

The National E-learning Repository ” NHS Connecting for Health (UK)

The National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) Regulations 2013 (UK)

The new NHS provider licence | News, events and publications | Monitor

The new structure of the NHS in England The Nuffield Trust (UK)

The NHS Bodies and Local Authorities (Partnership Arrangements, Care Trusts, Public Health and Local Healthwatch) Regulations 2012 (UK)

The NHS debate is in appalling health

The smoking map of England: get the data by local authority (UK)

The Telecare Blog: Telecare - the interoperability issue revisited (UK)

Third of NHS finance directors think quality of care is declining (UK)

Too long, too late but Francis can still help make the NHS better | Leader | Health Service Journal (UK)

Transplant patient receives bionic hand with electronic fingers - Telegraph

UK & international comparisons | The Nuffield Trust (UK)

UK government needs more innovative approach to improve prospects for telecare (UK)

UK government weighs digital tools for mental health (UK)

UK Government's £5m fund competition (UK)

UK independent health and care worth £40bn a year | The Economic Voice (UK)

UK obesity crisis needs a bold prescription from doctors (UK)

UKs NICE Heads Off Stroke Risk By Backing Atrial Fibrillation Detection Device | Medlatest - Medical Device News (UK)

Using technology to better manage long-term conditions | Health Service Journal

Using the Experienced Based Design Approach - NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Video: Choice of Any Qualified Provider | Department of Health (UK)

Video: NHS inspections 'must be backed up by action' - Telegraph (UK)

Viewpoint: How CCGs save money by choosing private sector over NHS (UK)

We must spend more on improving healthy behaviour | Health Service Journal

We need a full and independent audit of what care trusts achieved

We need to change the culture in the NHS (UK)

We need to future proof our health and care system, says Paul Burstow MP « NHS Voices (UK)

Wearable computing: Watch this space

Welcome to Halton CCG - website (UK)

Welsh Government | Consultation on the draft document 'Together for Health - a diabetes delivery plan' (UK)

What does the Government really think about Francis? (UK)

What GPs and CCGs can learn from the Francis report (UK)

What makes a good public sector commissioner? (UK)

What will the Francis report mean for social care?

Where to begin? | The King's Fund (UK)

Whittington NHS Trust Website: Patient experience (UK)

Who are the winners and losers under Dilnot's social care proposals? | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (UK)

Who is the Healthcare Consumer? | HealthWorks Collective

Who will pay for digital health apps? - Life Sciences Legal Insights

Why aren't we spending money on improving health outcomes? | The King's Fund (UK)

Why can we get user reviews of a hotel halfway around the world, but not of an NHS hospital up the road? Telegraph Blogs

Why NHS funding needs a total rethink (UK)

Why Oldham CCG focused on improving its vascular services (part 1) | (UK)

Why we need to strengthen local authorities accountability for public health outcomes | The King's Fund (UK)

Will 2013 be the year of meaningful public engagement with service change? | The King's Fund (UK)

Will Apple's iWatch introduce the age of wearable technology?

Will Apple's plans for an iWatch herald a new era of wearable tech? | Technology | The Observer

WIll technology help combat the flu in the near future?

Will there be a new direction for older person care? | Support Solutions (UK)

Women with heart disease ' at greater risk of thinking problems' - Telegraph

Worcester Assistive Technology business Case (UK)

yourcarehome.co.uk blog: Information is Power Government Care Ratings or Peer Reviews? Which Would You Trust? (UK)

YouTube to launch new television channel via Freesat (UK)

b) Business intelligence and product development

To view information on business intelligence and product development that may be of interest, click on the link below:

£600 million investment in the eight great technologies (UK)

1.8 Million Patients Will Use Telehealth Tools by 2017, Report Says

10 Reasons Why Medical Practitioners Should Start E-prescribing Now

100 trends that will change healthcare in 2013 - Founder's Blog - Healthy Startups

15 Mobile UX Facts and Insights: Measuring Usability

15 Predictions in Healthcare, Technology and Innovation for 2013

2.8m patients worldwide are using dedicated mobile health systems

20 Game-Changing Technology Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level

2013 Healthcare Outlook - Deloitte, YouTube

2013 Healthcare Outlook from Deloitte

2013 in tech: the Guardian's Digital Development team's predictions (UK)

2013: When "health" changes to "mHealth"

3 Burning Questions in Digital Health

3 reasons why patients should use social media

3 things that must happen for patient-centered care to become the standard

4 Drivers of Telehealth Demand

5 CIOs imagine health IT in 10 years

5 Reasons Why Your Consumer Health App Will Fail To Change Behavior

50 Jaw-Dropping Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Life Science Statistics

6 ways AHRQ will explore EHRs and workflow redesign

7 Lessons From Early Adopters of Telehealth Programs

7 out of 10 adults track a health indicator: report Modern Healthcare

7 surprising statistics that impact online health care marketing

8 Smartphone Medical Apps Every Doctor Needs

9 trends to watch for in wearable tech

A Check on Physicals

A Patch that Monitors the Body

A personalized medical journal is a great idea for an app but Read needs further refinement

A perspective on Emergency Call Systems and Senior Housing Technology

A virtual office visit for your cold is not a good idea

A Wristband To Measure Your Exercise, If You're Doing More Than Just Running

A Wrist-Worn Answer to Sexual Attack? - India Real Time - WSJ

AAP offers first clinical guidance for type 2 diabetes

About that meta-analysis of mHealth efficacy studies

Accurate, helpful feedback is possible with patient portals - Healthcare IT Connect

ACO Watch :: Keeping Track on Industry Developments and Innovation

ACOs unite to form national association Healthcare IT News

Aetna and PatientsLikeMe Help Empower Members Through Collaborative Program

Aging in Place Influencers

Aging in Place Intervention Technology Keeps Elderly at Home Behind the Scenes

AliveCor Heart Monitor featured on Fox News Sunday Housecall - YouTube

AMA details plan for cutting hospital readmissions -

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme Call for Proposals 2013 - ICT-based Solutions for Supporting Occupation in Life of Older Adults

AMC, Florida-based ACO announce home telehealth partnership

Americans' Increasing Use of Health Related Apps Present Business Opportunity

An Open Letter to Mobile Health App Developers and Their Funders

Analysis predicts spike in telehealth patients

Android's Advantage Over iPhone in Mobile Health Applications EMR and EHR

App development forces health IT industry to rethink mHealth strategy

App to give patients stake in health care

App'd to Fail: Mobile Health Treatments Fall Short in First Full Checkup: Scientific American

Apps Aim to Detect Skin Cancer

Apps for heart health: What doctors love

Apps latest bid by health insurers to manage wellness

Apps to diagnose skin cancer are unreliable: researchers

Apps4health

Are e-visits as good as office appointme

As Smartphones Get Smarter, You May Get Healthier: How mHealth Can Bring Cheaper Health Care To All

Avado - Connecting Providers and Patients

Aventyn® Vitalbeat Remote Monitoring Solution for BYOD? Wireless Healthcare Joins Intel

Average time to FDA clearance drops again, mobile medical apps still shorter

Baby Boomer Generation Online Resource - Baby Boomer Media

Baby Boomers: Not the Healthiest Generation'

Backed By Skype Co-founder Janus Friis, Futureful Launches On The iPad For Smarter Web Surfing

Baseline Evaluation of the mHealth Ecosystem and the Performance of the mHealth Alliance

Battle of the (wrist)Bands at the Digital Health Summit, 2013 CES Health Populi

BBC News - CES 2013: Health tech grabs attention (UK)

BBC News - Could DNA databases herald a new era of medicine? (UK)

BBC News - Disabled people 'could be forgotten' amid social care reform (UK)

BBC News - Exercise device helps 'envisage' recovery from strokes (UK)

BBC News - Extra heart check for over-65s 'advisable' (UK)

BBC News - Microsoft's Skype pressured to offer privacy reports (UK)

BBC News - Mobile phone sales fell in 2012, suggests study (UK)

BBC News - Phone apps may delay skin cancer diagnosis (UK)

BBC News - Researchers claim NHS drug decisions 'are flawed' (UK)

Best practices for Telemedicine

Better Understanding of Dementia for Carers

BetterDoctor takes on ZocDoc with streamlined doctor discovery app

Beyond the hype of the FDAs approval of the first bionic eye

Big Brother Health Care?: How Smartphones Are Changing Medicine

Billions of sensors power Wichita State professor's vision of interconnected world

Blog | Nesta Investment Management

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » David Kerr: Driving in the (near) future

Boston sport apps run in packs

Brace yourself: worldwide telehealth to grow by 55% in 2013

Brief Highlights Ways To Promote the Successful Adoption of Telehealth

Bringing the Hospital to Your Home

BT launches phone to block nuisance calls

Building a high-tech future

Building the case for an Impact Tech ecosystem in the UK (UK)

Business models of digital health technologies: Implications of ROI

Calif. Telehealth Project Aims To Boost Dental Care for Thousands

California releases guidelines for mobile app privacy

Campus MD takes telehealth to students Healthcare IT News

Can digital health/mobile health improve medication adherence?

Can Smartphone Apps Break Your Bad Habits?

Can We Have Health & Healthcare without Doctors?

Capzule iOS App Sends Refill Orders to Walgreen, Helps Better Medication Adherence

Cardiac patients will benefit from digital health technologies

Care Opinion (careopinion) on Twitter (UK)

Carephone - Wenman Healthcare

Case Study: Iowa Health System's Pursuit of Interoperability & Telehealth

Centaura Health at Home: Home Telehealth as the Standard of Care - The Commonwealth Fund

Centre for Excellence for Sensory Impairment

CES Keynote: Health Innovation Barriers Toppling

Changes to the cost of long-term care

Check out these 5 telemedicine thought leaders on Twitter

Cigna Study: Can a Mobile App Help Prevent Diabetes?

Cisco TelePresence allows doctors to conduct virtual consultations

CloudVisit introduces easy, affordable telemedicine for private practice physicians

Communities Dominate Brands: Countdown to Mobile Moment - When Will Mobile Phone Accounts Outnumber Humans? I say July 2013 (we are at 6.7B already)

Community Interest Company, The Community Gateway CIC, helps Councils to Promote Telecare on line - offers Councils incentives to sign up before March 31, 2013 (UK)

Computers in Human Behavior - Intercultural differences in responses to health messages on social media from spokespeople with varying levels of ethnic identity

Congress Poised to Take Up mHealth Security

Consumer Electronics (CES) 2013 and Technology Trends Study

Core Care Technologies in Washington Township has created an app to ensure patient wellness

Corporate practice of medicine: the unseen hurdle in telehealth

Critical mass for mobile health

Data transfer issues for HIT systems a major safety concern - FierceHealthIT

David's Blog Centre for Patient Leadership

Deloitte 2012 Survey of U.S. Health Care Consumers

Dementia diagnosis resource pack Dementia Partnerships

DEPRESSION STUDY | t2health

Determining if Your Patients Want Telemedicine

Digital Diary: Are We Suffering From Mobile App Burnout?

Digital Health - Government Computing Network

Digital health is hot at CES World of DTC

Digital Health Needs To Be More Than Just Digital Data - The Doctor Weighs In The Doctor Weighs In

Digital policy engagement session at Sprint 13 Digital Health

Disability adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Discussing self-tracking apps and devices on Twitter

Do patient portals increase patient engagement?

Do US Smartphones Encourage a Healthier You?

Do you Skype? « Patients Know Best blog

Docs avoid drug errors with mobile apps

Doctor 2.0: How Technology Will Transform Medicine In 2013

Doctors + mHealth: learning to swim when you're in at the deep end

Doctors and the Information Technology Paradox | Physicians Practice

Doctors drive BYOD at the VA - open the door for increased telemedicine

Doctors Failing to Inform Patients Online, Shows Survey

Doctors Push Back Against Health IT's Workflow Demands

Doctors, Patients: Prepare for Smartphone Medicine

DoD's new Android app connects to wearable devices for biofeedback

Doing more with digital - Community How To

Don't Only Count Calories and Steps, Your Metabolism is Key!

Dr Stephen Clay and Simon Swift: Doctor First

Dr. Google: Tips for patients who diagnose online

Dr. Wes: A Cardiologist Tests an Activity Tracker

Draft Transatlantic eHealth/health IT Cooperation MoU Roadmap

eClinicalWorks to spend $25M on patient engagement, including new app

E-Health Finally Reaches the Middle East

E-Health Reporter Bill Gates Says that mHealth's Time Has Come

eHealth Week 2013

eHealth Week 2013 (World of Health IT) Dublin, Ireland: 13-15 May

E-Health: Why Innovation and Connectivity are Vital for our Future Wellbeing

eHealthNews.eu Portal Boosting eHealth: New EU Action Plan

eHealthNews.eu Portal Harris Healthcare to Demonstrate How IT Can Drive Value-Based Integrated Health and Social Care

eHealthNews.eu Portal mHealth Professionals Launch Community & European Symposium

eHealthNews.eu Portal | Come and Experience the Future of eHealth & Mobile Health Technology

eHealthNews.eu Portal | Join the mHealth Symposium at eHealth Week 2013

EHR Interoperability: The Structured Data Capture Initiative

Electronic Health Records: Benefits, Requirements and Pitfalls

Electronic Health Tracking Increasingly Common, Researchers Say

Embracing Our Transhuman Future

EMC Says Big Data Is Essential to Improving Health Outcomes

Emerging Technologies: For Patient Safety & Improved Outcomes

Empowered patients need to ask themselves a basic question

Empowering patients >> Health Management Technology

Engaged Patients Translate to Better Outcomes and Costs

Enhance Patient Engagement With Device Connectivity to Patient Portals

Enterprise Mobility Apperian

Epidemic Of Chronic Disease with Arianna Huffington at Davos

EUROPEAN DIRECTORY of HEALTH APPS Survey Health design and technology

European Telemedicine Conference Announced

Evaluating mHealth adoption barriers

Evaluation The Nuffield Trust (UK)

eVisits: More Evidence That They Are a Good Idea

Examples of Implementation Search Results

Experts dismiss claims NHS drug decisions are flawed (UK)

F.T.C. Suggests Do-Not-Track' Feature for Mobile Software and Apps

Fact or fiction? The Co-production of health and the digital user

Falls in the elderly (Assessment of)

FAST - Current E-Bulletin (UK)

FAST - This month's e-bulletin (UK)

FDA Says It's OK to Have Robot Doctors

Features | Tempo AI - Tempo Smart Calendar

Federation of American Hospitals: EHR data reporting faces 'technical challenges'

Feds' E-Health' initiative reaches out to patients

Few use digital tools to track health

Finally! A fitness tracker that actually knows what you're doing

First eHealth services now available on Finnish Taltioni system

Fitness apps- may be more trendy than transformative

Five Pitfalls of Designing a Medical App

Five Reasons Why Self-Insured Companies Need Mobile Health

Five Ways of Achieving Patient Engagement: Part 1: WITHOUT Technology The Digital Health Corner

Five Ways of Achieving Patient Engagement: Part 2: WITH Technology | The Digital Health Corner

FL, KS, NC and VT Introduce New Telemedicine Bills

Florida ACO looks to cut readmissions with telemonitoring

Forbes Healthcare Summit: Using Big Data To Make Patients Better

Frog: Healthcare to shift from Rx to choice

Frost & Sullivan: Increasing Smartphone Penetration Pushes Mobile Health Market in Australia

Future leaders will have to be tech-literate Resource centre

Gaining Ground: Care Management Programs to Reduce Hospital Admissions and Readmissions Among Chronically Ill and Vulnerable Patients - The Commonwealth Fund

Gaming: The New Face Of Telemedicine

GBD 2010 change in leading causes and risks between 1990 and 2010 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

GBD Home Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

GE Hires Kleiner Partner, Teams Up With Startup Health To Help Fuel Digital Health Innovation

GeckoCaps to Help Parents Make Sure Their Asthmatic Kids Are Using Inhalers (w/video)

General practitioners 'hypertension knowledge and training needs: a survey in Xuhui district, Shanghai

Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth Presents to the FCC in Washington DC - Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth

Georgia to work on eHealth system after Estonia's pattern :: The Baltic Course Baltic States news & analytics

GeriTech: Can your Blue Button Redesign handle medically complex patients?

Get Digital Deliver Your Own Get Digital Project

Get over your fear of tracking technology, says Robert Scoble (UK)

GetWell Network Puts New Spin On Patient Engagement

Ginger.io tests passive monitoring for diabetes

Global mHealth Market on Pace to Pass $10.2 Billion by 2018 mHealthWatch

Global mHealth market to reach $10.2 billion by 2018

Glooko Receives FDA Clearance For Its Mobile Diabetes Tracker, Hires Intuit Health Exec As Its First CEO

Glooko secures FDA 510(k) clearance and execs from Intuit Health, Doximity

GPS app used to keep track of dementia patients

Graphic designers re-imagine the patient portal

Group developing gold standard? for cognitive screening apps to detect Alzheimer's disease

Growth of telehealth, Parkinson's treatment pipeline propels Great Lakes NeuroTech into new markets

Guidance published on Difficult Conversations in Dementia?

Guide Explains Electronic Tools to Aid Patients, Providers in Cancer Care

Guide: Health care data interoperability

Guiding Principles for the Care of Older Adults with Multimorbidity 

Half a billion people sign up for Twitter

Handi Health Slides

Hannah Gal: From Dull Existence to a Life Worth Living - How Technology Can Transform Old People's Lives

Happtique: An App Store for Health Apps | HealthWorks Collective

Haptics, Body Sensors, New Protocols to Bring Telemedicine Up a Level

Harvard, Orca Health partner to launch heart health app - Boston Business Journal

Has mobile health monitoring hit a wall?

Have we improved access to mental health services? Resource centre

HDTI - About the Health Design and Technology Institute

Headache & Migraine Tracker Coming to the Apple App Store

Health and Medicine at the Inflection Point-Perspective from Ray Kurzweil

Health behavior models in the age of mobile interventions: are our theories up to the task?

Health Care Social Media Review #21: Social Media Taps Digital Health

Health Care's Trick Coin

Health design and technology on Scoop.it

Health Design Challenge: d+collab - the patient record

Health IT Cancer Resource Guide eHealth Initiative

Health IT CEO: Adoption of patient-focused tech starts with patient-provider relationship

Health Online 2013 Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Health tech's monthly checkup: investment nearly tripled in January (infographic)

Health tracking apps: Not yet ready to make a big impact

Health, Technology and the Forgotten Stepchild of Innovation

Healthcare for Everyone: DoctorPage is Most Popular eHealth Portal for Healthcare Professionals in Singapore

HealthCare Social Media Review - 21st edition

HealthCare Social Media: Social Networks Lead to Innovation and Quality

Healthcare without Boundaries

Healthcares Trillion-Dollar Disruption: A laypersons summary

Healthdirect Australia

Healthspot replaces doctor's office with a telepresence kiosk

HealthTechZone - Healthcare Technology

Healthy Gadgets For Boomers, Seniors & Caregivers

Healthy living Opinion Inside Housing (UK)

Hello Doctor under fire

High Quality, Low Cost HealthCare Video Interview Series: Dr David Albert and AliveCor

HIPAA Overhaul Falls Short on mHealth Data Protection Mobile Health Market News

Home-Based Assessment Tool for Dementia Screening - YouTube

HomeTouch website

HomeTouch: A brand new service (UK) (UK)

Hospital Impact - Your patients may depend on social media

hospital plans to help see doctors from afar

Hot triggers, feedback loops and connected healthYouth

Housing associations are becoming social investment groups

How Can Remote Patient Monitoring Help Achieve Triple Aim Objectives?

How Can You Use Twitter for Telehealth?

How Design of Mobile Apps Can Promote Healthier Behavior

How digital health tools help kids form better habits

How do I turn my idea into a health app (and 10 things you might need)

How Facebook Is Transforming Science and Public Health

How Restyling the Mundane Medical Record Could Improve Health Care

How secure messaging and email benefit patients and improve outcomes

How Silicon Valley Envisions The Future Of Health Care

How technology is building a new old age - ITV News (UK)

How 'Telehealth' Can Reduce America's Health Care Spending

How to find the best medical information online

How to Read Your Own Body With Data

How to Use Inhalers has potential to improve treatment efficacy

IBM - mHealth: A Game Changer in Healthcare

IBM's Watson Could Be Healthcare Game Changer - Software - Business

IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare

IBM's Watson interns at Memorial Sloan-Kettering

IBM's Watson joins doctors in fighting lung cancer with cloud-based medical app

Identifying the impact of adult social care (IIASC) QORU

iDoctor: Could a smartphone be the future of Medicine

iDoctor: Could a smartphone be the future of medicine? - Video on

iExaminer connects your iPhone and ophthalmoscope, has telemedicine potential

If face to face GP appointments are replaced by Skype will it further isolate people who are housebound? (UK)

If nonadherence is a health condition?, use big data as preventive screening tool

If you attend a Medical School that still doesn't give you mHealth tools the data now shows that they are failing you « mHealth Insight: the blog of 3G Doctor

iMedicalApps exclusive review of Blip, the first WiFi Blood Pressure Monitor

Improving patient care by is the focus of new project at Imperial (UK)

In the US Health Debacle, a Lesson for All Countries Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs

Increasingly Popular Cooking Hacks Offers e-Health Biometric Sensor Platform to Monitor Patients via Arduino, Raspberry Pi

Infographic Novel: Secrets of Digital Health Masters

Ingestible Pill Provides 3D View of the Esophagus (w/video)

Innovate by Looking for Problem Patterns - Video - Harvard Business Review

Innovate Faster or Innovate Better? - Scott Anthony - Harvard Business Review

Innovation: How to Spot it and What it's Not

Innovators 'must provide more evidence' about product effectiveness News

Inside Three ACOs: Why California Providers Are Opting for the Model

Insider News North West “ Med ePad secures £150k funding (UK)

Insight Finland: Where Did Mobile Health Come From?

Integration is about patient benefits, not organisational processes, says Don Redding « NHS Voices

Intel CTO: Smart Sensors, Wearable Tech Coming Soon

Interactive Multimedia Technology: Telemedicine in Schools: Promoting Health (and Mental Health)

International Telemedicine Gains Momentum, Opening New Markets for Pathologists and Other Specialists

Interoperability holds the key to EHR, mobile health success

InTouch Health Launches ControlStation Telemedicine App for iPad

InTouch Health Launches Remote Care iPad App

InTouch Health Receives FDA Clearance for the RP-VITA Remote Presence Robot

Introducing Home Health Hub (UK)

Introducing Our 'In Case of Emergency' PLUS app

Introduction to Bedside Ultrasound is the first complete interactive iBook for physicians

Introduction to Telemental Health

Involving patients in improving safety

iPhone app accurately detects atrial fibrillation

Ireland urged to move on mobile healthcare

Is 2013 the year of action? - McKnight's Long Term Care News

Is case management effective in reducing the risk of unplanned hospital admissions for older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Is IT isolated in your organization? Here are ten telltale signs in your IT strategy.

Is it time to get smart on health IT targets? (UK)

It costs >£250k to train a Doctor so why would you question the value of putting up to date Medical Reference and Text books on their smartphones? « mHealth Insight: the blog of 3G Doctor (UK)

It looks like a hearing aid and babbles, but this device could help people with Parkinson's speak clearly

It's your record - myhealthlondon (UK)

iWantGreatCare website (UK)

Jawbone Acquires Mobile Health Startup Massive Health In Big Talent Acquisition

Jawbone buys Massive Health and Visere to boost app design for wearables

Jawbone buys Visera & MassiveHealth to marry data & design with wearable computing

Jawbone's two deals boost its health device strategy Mobile World Live

Jeffrey Levi: Will We Have a Health Care System or a Sick Care System? A Tale of Two Futures

JMIR--Web 2.0 Chronic Disease Self-Management for Older Adults: A Systematic Review

Join us in Brussels for the launch of the Community and European mHealth Symposium « mHealth Insight: the blog of 3G Doctor

Journal Club for Iphone- Medical Apps Peer Reviewed - The Medical App Journal

Kansas telemonitoring project shows promise for reducing hospital admissions Heartland Telehealth Resource Center

Keeping Patients Out of Hospitals: A Private-Sector Approach to Health Reform

Key Facts About Patient Safety National Patient Safety Foundation

Kinect Teleport for Remote Medicine

Kinect teleport for remote medicine ( The Microsoft Kinect game controller)

Leadership as well as enthusiasm is needed to digitise the NHS (UK)

Leading networks in healthcare

Leading Provider of Interactive Patient Care - GetWellNetwork

Learning sites will build partnerships between local health and social care commissioners and charity, community and social enterprise sector NHS Commissioning Board (UK)

Less than a third of doctors think online access to records is a good idea (UK)

Life-changing Funding Gives Social Media Training to Older People Support Solutions

LinkousThink: A Great Month for Telemedicine

Living on the mobile edge - Is it for you?

Living the quantified self: the realities of self-tracking for health This Sociological Life

Loneliness, like chronic stress, taxes the immune system

Making the wearable tech revolution a reality - Fortune Tech

Managing the abundance of mHealth apps in the urban flea market

Many people still technology-adverse when it comes to tracking health issues

Margie Morris: Exploring the Future of Mood Tracking (Get Your Mood On: Final Part)

Massive Hype -- and Hope -- for Digital Health in Silicon Valley

Mayo Clinic CEO on the future of healthcare

Mayo Clinic launches data-sharing lab

Mayo pilot adds Fitbit data to heart patient app

MBS Online - Specialist video consultations under Medicare

Measuring the 'Quality' of Health Care

Measuring the ROI of digital health technologies

Mechael: mHealth will not replace the doctor

Med ePad: Healthcare Unwired (UK) (UK)

Medical Apps Peer Reviewed - Jan 2013

Medical Consent app is a great idea but raises controversial security implications

Medical Device Interoperability

Medical device makers ink interoperability pledge

Medical monitoring gets personal, goes mobile

Medical Smartphones: The Skype Consultation: a Technological Step Too Far?

Medicine and Technology: Big Data and the Future of Healthcare (infographic)

Medicine and Technology: Six Misperceptions about the Telemedicine Market

Medicine for the Rich Is About to Get Cheap Enough for Regular People

MediSafe Project Increases Users' Medication Adherence Rate to 81%

Med-Tech Innovation News for the UK and Irish medical device industry (UK)

Medtronic Commences Landmark Neurostimulation Therapy Study Medlatest - Medical Device News

Men Calling Healthline

mHealth adoption barriers focus of third insights guide from Vodafone

mHealth advocates set their sights on senior services

mHealth and Home Monitoring - 5th Edition

mHealth deployments Shimmer

mHealth in the News This Week: Guess Who's Exploring Teen Texting Habits to Promote Health Text Messages? HealthUnBound

mHealth in the News: Africa's Mobile Tech Boom + A Role for mHealth in Sexual Violence

mHealth Lights Up Efforts to End Smoking

MHealth Market - Global Mobile Health Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018

mHealth may hold the key to stage 3 adoption

mHealth Monthly Mashup: Release 18 mobile health snapshot

mHealth Survey: Tracking Blood Glucose With A Mobile App Can Lead To Weight Loss And Decreased

mHealth technology shows modest benefits in developing countries

mHealth tools projected to save $500 billion in productivity by 2021

M-health: 2.8 million patients remotely monitored worldwide in 2012 RCR U.S. Wireless NewsMobile Technology Wireless Broadband Wireless Carriers RCR U.S. Wireless News

mHealth: It's time to 'grab on'

mHealth: Motivating for Healthy Behavior

mHealth: Prevention is Better Than Cure

Microscope camera displays view on iPad with potential applications for pathologists

MIT sets sights on open-source mHealth during innovation event

MobiHealthNews readers weigh in on direct-to-consumer healthcare

Mobile application to provide biofeedback for mental health released after studies on suicide rates - YouTube

Mobile Apps Cater to Our Connected World - The Network: Cisco's Technology News Site

Mobile Devices Help to Bridge Healthcare Gap Found in Lower-Income Patients Worldwide in Underserved Regions

Mobile Health Around the Globe: Healthcare Technology in the 21st Century

Mobile health clinic induced positive BP changes Cardiology

Mobile health makes an impact

Mobile Health Research Highlight: Theory-driven mHealth

Mobile Health Unlikely to Face Much Regulatory Scrutiny, Lawyer Says

Mobile health won't replace need for doctors, mHealth champion says

Mobile Health: Are We Ready For It? Senior Care Corner

Mobile Healthcare Apps Slated for Federal Oversight

Mobile Healthcare is Solving Major Problems for Military Doctors and Nurses

Mobile Medical Apps: The Slow Road to Regulation

Mobile Technology Is Restrengthening the Health Industry

More and more states introducing bills to break barriers to telehealth

More consumers want to make health care decisions

More Evidence is Needed for Mobile Health | Medical News and Health Information

Most docs would recommend an mHealth app to patients

My HealtheVet

'My Journey' Youth Mental Health App by Sarah Amani on Prezi

NAO questions Civil Service approach to gaining digital skills

National eHealth strategy, missing link in Nigeria's telemedicine

video: iDoctor: Could a smartphone be the future of medicine?

NCI turns to mHealth for smoking cessation

New accreditations from NICE (UK)

New app gives patients directions inside of hospitals

New app monitors heart rate, respiration

New brain-test app

New HIPAA rule falls short in protecting mobile patient information

New Lippincott iPad app gives nurses offline access to nursing procedures

New Patented Technology a Breakthrough for Telehealth Stethoscopes

New Social Networking Mobile App for Veterans

New technology helps doctors link a patient's location to illness and treatment

New Telemedicine Stats Bode Well for EMRs EMR and EHR

New teleneurology program in the works

New text messaging program to help those with prostate cancer

NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care competition 2013 (UK)

NIHR: Prevention services, social care and older people: much discussed but little researched? (UK)

Nine Rules for Stifling Innovation - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review

No one fix to slow hospital readmission epidemic

, A National Nursing & Consumer Health Directory

Nurses Take A Lesson In mHealth

NY health exchange expects to insure 1.1 million

NYC Celebrates Improved Health Through Technology

Office of Wireless Health Proposed for the FDA mHealthWatch

On Quantified Self: Why Apple's iWatch Could Supercharge Tech Powered Health Self-Tracking

ONC sees e-health as foundation for engagement Government Health IT

ONC's 'Three A's' Plan to promote engagement through e-Health

Online Clinics Reduce Costs, Deliver Effective Care, New Study Finds

Online Healthcare 24/7

Online Healthcare Information “ Who Uses It (and How) Senior Care Corner

Online Medical Consults Save Money, Study Says - Healthcare - Mobile

Ontario Tories would scrap eHealth, but still develop electronic medical records

Opinion: Cut the red tape tying up e-medicine

Option Grid

Our Bodies, Our Spreadsheets: Fitness Quants on Rampage

Outcomes matrix Big Society Capital

Over 650 million households worldwide will have broadband and over 430 million will have a data network by end of 2013

Ozcan Lab unveils smartphone attachment for testing allergen levels in food

Pagers off: the end for the bleep

Pairasight, Announced At CES 2013 ” Embeddable, Hands Free Camera Technology

Parental Self-Efficacy and Online Support Among Parents of Children Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Partners HealthCare: Connecting Heart Failure Patients to Providers Through Remote Monitoring - The Commonwealth Fund

Patient engagement via mHealth will be key to Stage 3 Meaningful Use

Patient Experience And Design At Mayo Clinic Case Study

Patient Memoirs

Patient Portal Explosion Has Major Health Care Implications

Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge

Patient Safety Tool: Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Toolkit

Patients and handicapped users test new mind-controlled tech

Patients need to be involved in quality metrics

Patients Still Tend to Mistrust Computerised Healthcare Diagnosis Tools L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation

Patients who self track their data: Curb your enthusiasm

Patients with Lower Activation Associated with Higher Costs; Delivery Systems Should Know Their Patients' Scores' - The Commonwealth Fund

Paying Lipservice to Patient Engagement

Pediatricians lag with EHR adoption

Peggy Johnson: Mobile Technology Drives Entrepreneurship in Many of the World's Developing Economies

Person-Centered HealthCare: GetWellNetwork Offers Interactive Patient Care

Personlised Care Planning | Tablet Based Patient Care and Records

Pew Internet Research: 21% Self-Track with Technology - Quantified Self

Pew Internet: Social Networking (full detail) | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Pew Research Shows Ample Room for mHealth Adoption mHealthWatch

PharmTech Talk » A Call to Integrate Technology Innovation and Healthcare

Phone detection of Parkinson's approaches 99 percent accuracy

Phone Visits Speed Time to Physical Therapy

Pillbox app' helps boost medication adherence rates to 81%

Pocket Health Wi-Fi (wireless), Bluetooth, Wireless

Podcast: e-Patient Dave on the Future, Past of Patient Engagement (Part 2)

Population Ageing and Socially Assistive Robots for Elderly Persons: The Importance of Sociodemographic Factors for User Acceptance

Preventice and VOX Telehealth introduce patient education solution to improve recovery from joint replacement surgery

Prevention is better than cure

Prevention of Falls

Primary Care Today

Privacy, professionalism may work against Skype in healthcare

Problem of hospital readmissions, benefits of telemedicine hit home

Progress on eHealth in a global context

Project INTEGRATE | IFIC

Project Uses Telehealth To Boost Californians' Access to Dental Care

Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation - WHO

Public Policy for Telehealth in 2013: It's Time for Government To Lead or Get Out of the Way - Perspectives

Putting patients first by @alexneilsnp « ayrshirehealth (UK)

PwC Report Emerging mHealth: Paths for Growth? « mHealth Insight: the blog of 3G Doctor

Qualcomm Helping with mHealth in India

Quality of e-visits not yet equal to office visits

Quantified Self Startup Tictrac

R U Eating Healthy 2day? Elsevier

Rachel Carrell: Why Skype is Not the Answer for the NHS (But the Internet Might Be) (UK)

RACP: Telehealth

Ralph Snyderman, M.D.: How Digital Technology Can Personalize Health Care

Ratings review: Q&A The Nuffield Trust (UK)

Red tape holding back clinical trials

Redesigning the Personal Health Record

Re-imagining Healthcare: a Radical Idea for 2013 MedCrunch

Remote Care Briefing Center

Remote Monitoring Technology in Senior Living Prompts "Big Brother" Comparisons

Remote patient monitoring firm partnered with AT&T raises $3.4 million

Remote Patient Monitoring Tech Can Treat More Than 200 Million People

Report finds pregnancy apps more popular than fitness apps

Report Predicts Rise in U.S. Residents Using Telehealth Technology

Report says remote patient monitoring becoming part of standard care pathways

Report: About 300K patients were remotely monitored in 2012

Report: mHealth has been invaluable in real-time monitoring of diseases

Report: Most Adults Not Using Technology To Monitor Health

Report: Most Global mHealth Projects Target Communicable Diseases

Report: Patients Say Text Messages More Helpful Than In-Person Provider Visit

Research Finds Link Between Patient Experience of Care Measures and Readmissions

Research methods & information tools The Nuffield Trust (UK)

Researchers Pushing the Boundaries of Virtually Space to Include Sense of Touch

Review: An App Called Moves Logs Every Step You Take - No Extra Effort or Hardware Required

Rewards for watching TV vs rewards for healthy behavior

Ricky Gervais: the elderly are neglected and 'forgotten' by society

Rise of the Digital Doctor Visual.ly

Rising Popularity of Mobile Health Apps Visual.ly

Rising Popularity of Mobile Health Apps

Robodocs? Tricorders? How telemedicine will shape the future of health

Rock Tease: Investors Flirt With Digital Health But Avoid Serious Commitment

Sainsbury's plans a rapid expansion of in-store GP surgery programme

Samsungs new innovation fund could help health startups take over the Internet of things

Sanofi helps launch Prost8Care, SMS-based program for prostate cancer treatment

Satellite technology to support mobile health clinics

Scaling Telehealth Programs: Lessons from Early Adopters - The Commonwealth Fund

Scanadu Aims to Empower Patients with DIY Vital Signs Device Xconomy

- Clinical Psychology Review - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy versus Other Therapies

Scientific mobile health research found severely lacking

Screening for Diabetes is Essentially Worthless American HealthScare

Seeking patient feedback in the NHS Top tips (UK)

Self-Monitoring: Track Your Metabolism on Your Smartphone

Senior Home Care expands in-home patient telemonitoring program

Seniors Tracking Their Health - There’s an App for That

SILK: SILK Method Deck

Sir Tim Berners-Lee On Open Data, Privacy, eHealth And The Birth Of The Web

Siri, Google Now, and the End of Apps

Six principles for delivering integrated out-of-hospital care

Skin Cancer Apps Can Delay Diagnosis, Cause harm - ABC News

Skin Cancer Apps That Don't Work Men's Health News

Skype calls now equivalent to one-third of global phone traffic

Skype successful in home care for infants - FierceHealthIT

Slideshow: 7 technologies working to prevent falls

Slideshow: Health devices that launched at CES 2013

Smart phone guide dog app gets training boost

Smart Sensor Technology in Senior Living Headed Toward Industry Standard

Smartphones Help in Combating Chronic Pain for Women

Social Media Changes Healthcare Landscape

Social Media in Medical Education

Social Media Tools and Technology-101 magic tools and technology tips

Social media, online access creating a 'perfect storm' in healthcare

Social networks explained (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest) Creative Ramblings

Social networks improve research, help patients with regimen adherence - FierceHealthIT

Social networks lead to innovation and healthcare quality = Case Closed

South Africa leads in mHealth

SPR Smartpatch for Chronic Shoulder Pain Approved in Europe

SPRU seminar 5.2.13 by Martin Webber on Prezi

Stay Healthy On-The-Go: 7 Best Medical Apps For 2013

Study Finds Tweeting, Retweeting May Help You Lose Weight

Survey says: physicians value mobile health apps - Community Blog

Survey: 17 percent of healthcare providers see benefits of mHealth

Survey: Healthcare execs don't think they're innovative enough

Sus-IT A New Dynamics of Ageing Project

Swedish research on GPS tracking with people with dementia

Take Your Plan To Another Level With The Latest WellnessFX App!

Taking Care: Congestive heart failure and telemonitoring

Talking: Abe Wandersman: Getting to Outcomes Cathy Howe

Tapping into online communities brings dramatic results in health

Tech guru offers privacy tips when using medical apps

Tech Predictions for 2013: It's All About Mobile

Technology at Davos; Telemedicine in the smartphone age

Telefonica Digital Acquires Controlling Stake In Brazil's Axismed, Its First Move Into E-Health Solutions

Telefonica Digital invests in Brazilian e-health

Telehealth - Medicare Australia

Telehealth 'booth' being trialled in Britain's most remote village (UK)

Telehealth in growth mode worldwide Healthcare IT News

Telehealth programs lead to reduced readmissions, better outcomes : Health Exec News (UK)

Telehealth should get the Amazon treatment

Telehealth To Grow Six-Fold By 2017

Telehealth, E-Visits Gaining Steam as Cost-Effective Senior Care Method

Telemedicine - Emedicine & Telemedicine Law Info

Telemedicine brings expert blindness screenings to preemies

Telemedicine Can Save 100,000 Nigerians

Telemedicine Pilot: Parkinson's Patients Speak Louder

Telemedicine, a Telling Sign of Health Care's Future Georgia Public Policy Foundation

Telemedicine: A Force That Can Deliver Healthcare Across the Nation?

Telemedicine: Healthcare That's Virtually There

Telerheumatology: an idea whose time has come

Testing brain pacemakers to zap Alzheimer's damage Health

Text messages to help cancer patients counter chemo side effects

The 5 Laws of Innovation for Digital Health Startups

The 5 pitfalls of designing a medical app

The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review

The ACO Must...Towards an Operational Definition of Patient Engagement' « ACO Watch

The Alivecor ECG passes Arthur C Clarke's 3rd law of prediction: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? « mHealth Insight: the blog of 3G Doctor

The case for home based telehealth in pediatric palliative care: a systematic review

The CDC MMWR standalone app is a great information source but has a few shortcomings

The Clinical Connectivity Gap: Leveraging Technology to Save Lives

The Commonwealth Fund Connection The Promise of Telehealth - The Commonwealth Fund

The Complex Economics Of Disease Prevention And Longevity “

The connected home as consumer medical home Health Populi

The connected home as consumer medical home - The Doctor Weighs In The Doctor Weighs In

The cost of government: what does the new transactions data really tell us? News guardian.co.uk (UK)

The definition of mHealth: « mHealth Insight: the blog of 3G Doctor

The Digital Health Ecosystem Bionic.ly

The Digital Skeptic: Health Tech Gets Ready to Be America's Biggest Loser

The Doctor Will Skype You Now - Seattle's Carena Launches CareSimple: On-Demand 24/7 Webcam and Phone Visits with Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Business Wire

The e-Medicine Explosion

The ethics of EMR: How unproven technology affects patients

The evidence behind mHealth gamification

The future's e-mental health, explain mental health leaders « NHS Voices

The Health Technology Revolution: Video Cambridge Health Network

The Heart is an interactive medical iBook for iPad

The HIPAA-HITECH Regulation, the Cloud, and Beyond LinkedIn

The inexact science of predicting digital health's billions

The InterHerz project - a web-based psychological treatment for cardiac patients with depression: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

The interoperability of consumer mHealth - reflecting on Jawbone + Massive Health + Visere

The iPad revolution is coming to a hospital near you Consumerization Of It

The key to better health care may already be in your pocket... and it's not your wallet - Rock Center with Brian Williams

The medical Internet of things and the future of health care

The New Bush Telegraph: Telehealth for Rural and Remote Practice

The New Imperative Of Patient Engagement For Hospitals And Health Systems

The new normal: Accepting patient-provided data in the mHealth era

The Patient Engagement Pill: Lessons From Epilepsy

The Perfected Self - David H. Freedman - The Atlantic

The personalized medicine revolution is almost here

The Quest to Create A Bionic Eye Gets Clearer

The role of economists in social care - Social Care Evidence in Practice (UK)

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians

The STAT Ten: Eric Topol, MD Speaks Out on Digital Health

The Surprising Connection Between Simplification and Innovation Innovation Management

The Sydney eScholarship Repository: Digital Sociology: An Introduction

The Voice of Dementia on Vimeo

The World Congress Telehealth Executive Summit

The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care Most Innovative Companies 2013 Fast Company

theChestReg app is an essential respiratory medicine resource

There are still no shortcuts to Social Media ROI

There May Be An App For That, But It's A Broken Model | Fast Company

Think preventive medicine will save money? Think again

Thinking aloud - what would it take to be patient-centred?

This Week in PLOS Medicine: Mobile-health; BMI in LMICs; MHTF; GMHP Speaking of Medicine

Three Principles for Determining the Relevancy of Store-and-Forward and Live Interactive Telemedicine: Reinterpreting Two Telemedicine Research Reviews and Other Research | Abstract

Tictrac

To Skype or not to Skype?

Top 10 Mental Health Apps | World of Psychology

Top 15 Free Android Medical apps for Healthcare professionals

Top tips for engaging health professionals in service development

Topol goes prime time with his message about smartphones, smart monitors

Tracking for Health | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Tracking Health Indicators: The Role of mHealth Technologies in Improving Outcomes

Transplant patient receives bionic hand with electronic fingers - Telegraph

Treating Patients Anywhere, Anytime with Telemedicine

Trend survey 2012:˜The Dutch are online any time, any place

Trends, Technologies, and Ecosystems: Evolution of the Digital Home

Turning Information Into Impact: Digital Health's Long Road Ahead - Forbes

Tweet more health advice, agencies told | Australian Doctor

Twitter diet? Tweeting can 'aid weight loss' - Health News - NHS Choices (UK)

Twitter more informative for health info than search engines

U.S. Approves First Method to Give the Blind Limited Vision -

U.S. telehealth patient population to grow to 1.3 million by 2017 from 227,400

UK government weighs digital tools for mental health (UK)

UK Government's £5m fund competition (UK)

UKs NICE Heads Off Stroke Risk By Backing Atrial Fibrillation Detection Device | Medlatest - Medical Device News (UK)

Unique nature of healthcare holding back innovation, even with consumer demand

UnitedHealth offers up $60,000 prize for tech innovations - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal

UnitedHealthcare, Konami bring health games to schools

University Certificate in Practice Skills for Health and Social Care - Faculty of Health and Social Care

University of Cincinnati Robot the New Face of Telemedicine

US legislation paves the way for a telehealth breakthrough

Use of a Web-based Risk Appraisal Tool for Assessing Family History and Lifestyle Factors in Primary Care - Online First - Springer

Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content | Impact of Social Sciences

UT-Dallas researcher develops button-size sensor to predict falls among elderly

VA grants for women's health programs expand telehealth efforts

Video: The Future of Consumer Healthcare Apps

Videocentric - What impact does Telehealth have on Longterm Conditions Management?

Vigil Health Solutions Inc. - Welcome

Virtual dental homes care for vulnerable populations

Virtual visits to doc may be cheaper than and as effective as in-person visits

Visiting the Doctor, Virtually -

Vodafone Glolobal Enterprise: The three mHealth adoption barriers

Walgreens introduces API for mobile prescription refills | mobihealthnews

Watson supercomputer available to aid in your patients cancer evaluation and treatment

Watson's medical expertise offered commercially

Wearable Devices' Next Design Challenge: The Human Brain ReadWrite

Wearables Deserve Attention, But Fitness Wearables Are Overhyped

Wearables surge by 2017 predicted as Google Glass and more weigh in

Welbeing - Overview of our service 2013 - YouTube

Welcome to finerday - website

Welcome To IANS Live - SCI-TECH and HEALTH - App can be used for psychological testing

Wellbeing and environments in dementia: a multidisciplinary approach

WellDoc publishes mobile diabetes study

WellPoint expands telemedicine opportunities for doctors

What Amazon can teach us about telehealth adoption

What can Kim Kardashian do for mHealth? | mHIMSS

What if your electronic medical record looked like it was created by a graphic designer?

What is Supported Self-Care?

What matters to patients in general practice, for satisfaction and support of change? Patient Access Study

What Physicians need to know about the mobile health presented at 2013 CES

WhatDisrupt€? Really Means | TechCrunch

What's Hot In Social Tools (#SWChat) - The Social Workplace - STS

When To Ignore That Mobile Health App

WHO | World Health Day

Why Facts, Not Faith, Will Change the World - Forbes

Why Google Flu Trends Will Not Replace the CDC Anytime Soon

Why mobile health app overload drives us crazy, and how to restore the sanity

Why Patients Visit Their Doctors: Assessing the Most Prevalent Conditions in a Defined American Population

Why Your Social Media Should Follow The Customer Not Your Opening Hours « Paul Taylor Online

Will Apple's iWatch introduce the age of wearable technology?

Will Apple's plans for an iWatch herald a new era of wearable tech? | Technology | The Observer

Will We Disappear Into Our Machines?

Winners of Patient Health Record Graphic Design Contest Announced

Withings - Health Mate App - Introduction

Women with heart disease ' at greater risk of thinking problems' - Telegraph

Wow of the Week: AI that thinks like a doctor? shows lower costs, better outcomes in study

You Waste A Lot Of Time At Work

Your guide to everything mHealth at HIMSS13 | mHIMSS

Your History May Define Your Future: Tell Your Doctor

c) Research, evaluation and evidence

To view information on research, evaluation and evidence that may be of interest, click on the links below:

"There's no cure for this condition": How physicians discuss advance care planning in heart failure

2013: Let's hope it's a year of evidence for mHealth

5 reasons why mobile technology needs clinical trials

A Comparison of Care at E-visits and Physician Office Visits for Sinusitis and Urinary Tract Infection

A holistic framework to improve the uptake and impact of eHealth technologies

A Low-Cost Mobile Adaptive Tracking System for Chronic Pulmonary Patients in Home Environment

A passive positioning alarm used by persons with dementia and their spouses - a qualitative intervention study

A personalized medical journal is a great idea for an app but Read needs further refinement

A randomized clinical trial of a nurse telephone follow-up on paediatric tonsillectomy pain management and complications

A randomized clinical trial of a web-based tobacco cessation education program

A tailored, interactive health communication application for patients with type 2 diabetes: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial

Access : Effect of a home telecare program on oral health among adults with tetraplegia: a pilot study : Spinal Cord

Accountable Care Organisations

Accuracy of Electronically Reported Meaningful Use? Clinical Quality Measures: A Cross-sectional Study

AHRQ - Findings and Lessons From the Enabling Patient-Centered Care Through Health IT

AHRQ offers lessons and models from patient-centered IT pilots

AHRQ Report: Health IT Can Facilitate Patient-Centered Care

Ambient Assisted Living Devices Interoperability Based on OSGi and the X73 Standard

An evaluation of a self-management package for people with diabetes at risk of chronic kidney disease

An evaluation of a web-based diabetes education program designed to enhance self-management among patients living with diabetes

An open trial of self-help behaviours of clients with eating disorders in an online programme

Artificial intelligence framework for simulating clinical decision-making: A Markov decision process approach

Assistive technology and telecare Archives - Wellbeing and environments in dementia: a multidisciplinary approach

Attitudes to Social Care for Older People in Northern Ireland CARDI : Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » David Kerr: Driving in the (near) future

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Smith: A paperless NHS by 2018? (UK)

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Vize: Andy Burnham's plans signify profound changes in the way the NHS is structured (UK)

Can individualized weight monitoring using the HeartPhone algorithm improve sensitivity for clinical deterioration of heart failure?

Can interacting with avatars reduce depression?

Cardiac resynchronization therapy: an update

Challenges of a Mobile Application for Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis Patient Enablement

Chronic care infrastructures and the home

Clinical usefulness and cost effectiveness of home blood pressure telemonitoring: meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies

Community-based intervention to improve dietary habits and promote physical activity among older adults: a cluster randomized trial

Computer templates in chronic disease management: ethnographic case study in general practice

Conceptual Framework for Development of Comprehensive e-Health Evaluation Tool (abs)

Conceptual Framework for Development of Comprehensive e-Health Evaluation Tool (pdf)

Coping and health-related quality of life in individuals with heart failure: An integrative review

Cost of healthcare in 5 years - under $1000 a person

Country actions to meet UN commitments on non-communicable diseases: a stepwise approach : The Lancet

Cuts are putting quality of care at risk, say NHS managers | BMJ (UK)

Development of a Screening and Brief Intervention and Referral for Treatment for ED Patients at Risk for Undiagnosed Hypertension: A Qualitative Study

Diagnostic Inaccuracy of Smartphone Applications for Melanoma Detection

dLife mHealth Survey: Tracking Blood Glucose With A Mobile App Can Lead To Weight Loss And Decreased A1C Levels

Do medical doctors respond to economic incentives?

Effect of Psychosocial Interventions on Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Effectiveness of cell phones and to estimate fruit and vegetable intake

Effectiveness of PhysioDirect telephone assessment and advice services for patients with musculoskeletal problems: pragmatic randomised controlled trial BMJ

Effects of type 2 diabetes behavioural telehealth interventions on glycaemic control and adherence: a systematic review

eHealth promotion and social innovation with youth: using social and visual media to engage diverse communities

Evidence lacking on mHealth effectiveness in poor countries

Falls in the elderly (Assessment of)

Finding the missing millions - the impact of a locally enhanced service for COPD on current and projected rates of diagnosis: a population-based prevalence study using interrupted time series analysis

Finding the patient in patient safety

Fragmentation: a wicked problem with an integrated solution?

Frailty in elderly people : The Lancet

From mobile mental health to mobile wellbeing: opportunities and challenges

Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Harnessing the cloud of patient experience: using social media to detect poor quality healthcare

Harnessing the cloud of patient experience: using social media to detect poor quality healthcare (abs)

Health behavior models in the age of mobile interventions: are our theories up to the task?

Health Information Technology in Screening and Treatment of Child Obesity: A Systematic Review.

Health News - Physiotherapy advice via telephone reduces waiting times and provides equally good results for patients' health

Heart failure symptom measures: critical review

Heart failure: clinical problem and management issues

Hospital readmissions not linked to mortality

Hypertension: How To Work With Patients To Get The Perfect Blood Pressure (UK)

iMA Journal Club, Study Done to Assess Apple's Facetime® in a Dermatology Practice

Income inequality and 30 day outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: retrospective cohort study | BMJ

Information about assisted dying: an evaluation of web-based information resources

Integrating Self Blood Pressure Monitoring Into the Routine Management of Uncontrolled Hypertension: Translating Evidence to Practice - Angell - 2013 - The Journal of Clinical Hypertension - Wiley Online Library

Is case management effective in reducing the risk of unplanned hospital admissions for older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis

JAMA study shows melanoma detecting apps can cause harm, but should not be dismissed

JMIR -Barriers and Facilitators of Online Patient Portals to Personal Health Records Among Persons Living With HIV: Formative Research

JMIR--A Smartphone-Based Intervention With Diaries and Therapist-Feedback to Reduce Catastrophizing and Increase Functioning in Women With Chronic Widespread Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR--Correlates of Health-Related Social Media Use Among Adults Thackeray Journal of Medical Internet Research

JMIR--Evaluating the Translation Process of an Internet-Based Self-Help Intervention for Prevention of Depression: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Lintvedt Journal of Medical Internet Research

JMIR--Health Professionals' Expectations Versus Experiences of Internet-Based Telemonitoring: Survey Among Heart Failure Clinics de Vries Journal of Medical Internet Research

JMIR--Measuring Actual eHealth Literacy Among Patients With Rheumatic Diseases: a Qualitative Analysis of Problems Encountered Using Health 1.0 and Health 2.0 Applications

JMIR--Mobile Health (mHealth) Approaches and Lessons for Increased Performance and Retention of Community Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review

JMIR--Quantifying Short-Term Dynamics of Parkinson's Disease Using Self-Reported Symptom Data From an Internet Social Network Little Journal of Medical Internet Research

JMIR--Type 1 Diabetes eHealth Psychoeducation: Youth Recruitment, Participation, and Satisfaction

JMIR--Understanding the Factors That Influence the Adoption and Meaningful Use of Social Media by Physicians to Share Medical Information

JMIR--Web 2.0 Chronic Disease Self-Management for Older Adults: A Systematic Review

JMIR--Website Usage and Weight Loss in a Free Commercial Online Weight Loss Program: Retrospective Cohort Study

Journal Club for Iphone- Medical Apps Peer Reviewed - The Medical App Journal

Labour's plans for health and social care would not require more top-down? NHS changes, says Burnham BMJ

mHA points to missing evidence for mobile health

mHealth for Midwives: A Call to Action

Mobile Health Services for Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Systematic literature Review

Momentary Assessment of Social Context and Glucose Monitoring Adherence in Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

Mortality by Level of Emphysema and Airway Wall Thickness

Multi-component weight-loss interventions for people with cardiovascular disease and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review.

On the remarkable persistence of asymmetry in doctor/patient interaction: a critical review

Only one in four people with uncontrolled epilepsy sees a specialist BMJ

PAL-MED CONNECT(®): A Telephone Consultation Hotline for Palliative Medicine Questions.

Patient-centred healthcare, social media and the internet: the perfect storm?

PLOS Medicine: Scaling Up mHealth: Where Is the Evidence?

PLOS Medicine: Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

PLOS Medicine: The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

PLOS Medicine: The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review

PLOS Medicine: Why Do Evaluations of eHealth Programs Fail? An Alternative Set of Guiding Principles

PLOS ONE: Guided Self-Help Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression in Primary Care: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Post-Hospital Syndrome - An Acquired, Transient Condition of Generalized Risk - NEJM

Potential benefits of well engaged patients? are akin to those from a blockbuster drug, say experts BMJ

Preanesthesia screening phone messages and rate of return based on the primary language of patient

Promoting networks between evidence-based medicine and values-based medicine in continuing medical education

R U Eating Healthy 2day? Elsevier

Reliability of Telemedicine in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Safety for home care: the use of Internet video calls to double-check interventions

Screening for Diabetes and Prediabetes Should be Cost-Saving in Patients at High Risk

Smartphones improve communication with parents in NICU : The Lancet

Smoking cessation in COPD patients | (UK)

Staff perceptions of addressing lifestyle in primary health care: a qualitative evaluation 2 years after the introduction of a lifestyle intervention tool

Study Links Cognitive Deficits, Hearing Loss

Study on diabetes self monitoring with mobile phones and NFC shows promise

Study: Mobile Clinic Saves Money, Improves Health For Low-Income Patients CommonHealth

Study: Online doctor consults can be as effective as office visits

Survey: Healthcare execs don't think they're innovative enough

Telecare for the elderly-community nurses' experiences in taiwan

Telemed proves cost effective, says the Commonwealth Fund

Telemedicine Pre-anesthesia Evaluation: A Randomized Pilot Trial

Telephone survey of service-user experiences of a telephone-based mental health triage service

The case for home based telehealth in pediatric palliative care: a systematic review

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of telephone triage of patients requesting same day consultations in general practice: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial comparing nurse-led and GP-led management systems (ESTEEM).

The future of primary care | BMJ

The InterHerz project - a web-based psychological treatment for cardiac patients with depression: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

The social considerations for moving health services into the home: A telecare perspective (UK)

The use of a home exercise program based on a computer system in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Threats to patient safety in telenursing as revealed in Swedish telenurses' reflections on their dialogues

Three Principles for Determining the Relevancy of Store-and-Forward and Live Interactive Telemedicine: Reinterpreting Two Telemedicine Research Reviews and Other Research | Abstract

Uncertainty in illness among patients with chronic heart failure is less in person-centred care than in usual care

Understanding Barriers to Wider Telehealth Adoption in the Home Environment of Older People: An Exploratory Study in the Irish Context

UnitedHealth offers up $60,000 prize for tech innovations - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal

Use of a Web-based Risk Appraisal Tool for Assessing Family History and Lifestyle Factors in Primary Care - Online First - Springer

Use of an Interactive Computer Agent to Support Breastfeeding

Use of Health IT for Higher-Value Critical Care

Using Information Technology to Improve the Monitoring of Outpatient Prescribing

Utilization of home telemonitoring in patients 75 years of age and over with complex heart failure

Utilizing Telehealth to Combat Childhood Obesity | Aims for MHS Innovations

Validity and reliability of the European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale among adults from the United States with symptomatic heart failure

Variations in patterns of care activities for nursing home residents with heart failure

Web 2.0 chronic disease self-management for older adults: a systematic review

Web versus App compliance of patients in a telehealth diabetes management programme using two different technologies

Weight loss social support in 140 characters or less: use of an online social network in a remotely delivered weight loss intervention - Online First - Springer

Weight monitoring in patients with severe heart failure (WISH). A randomized controlled trial

Why Google Flu Trends Will Not Replace the CDC Anytime Soon

Why mobile health app overload drives us crazy, and how to restore the sanity

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