Nintendo DS to offer diabetes care
A pharmaceutical company has unveiled a blood glucose meter for children with diabetes that connects to the Nintendo DS and DS Lite games consoles.
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Intel and GE develop Health House
Researchers from Intel and GE Healthcare are working to develop a ‘Health House’ that will track a person’s everyday habits, check vital signs and predict whether they are at risk of a fall. The system will use sensors to track a person’s behaviour and send alerts when unexpected reactions or data are picked up. The […]
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Diabetes diagnostics set to grow
The European diabetes diagnostics market is on the verge of a huge expansion with segments such as self monitoring tests offering room for extreme growth, analysts have found. However, a Frost and Sullivan report says that companies will need to push the benefits of testing to patients and clinicians and be prepared to offer exceptional […]
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Canada hit by e-health scandal
The agency responsible for ehealth in Ontario has become the centre of a scandal involving uncompetitive contract awards, massive consultancy fees and posh biscuits. The agency in question, eHealth Ontario, is reported to have forked out nearly €3.2m (CAD $5m) in contracts without any apparent attempt to open up the deals to outside bidders, according […]
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Our website could do so much more
GP Dr Neil Paul sees the potential for his practice website to be a one stop shop for patients’ health needs.
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The great Communicator
A GP practice in Harrow has become the first early adopter site for HealthSpace’s Communicator tool, enabling patients and clinicians to communicate via web technology. Stanmore Medical Centre in Harrow is the first site to begin work under the Communicator early adopter programme and is in the process of recruiting patients to use the new […]
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QResearch pioneer honoured
A GP who set up the QResearch database, using anonymised data from around 10m patients registered at EMIS practices, has been honoured for her work. Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox, professor of clinical epidemiology and general practice at Nottingham University, had been awarded the John Fry Silver Medal by the Royal College of GPs. The medal commemorates […]
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Toumaz provides tech for DIAdvisor trial
Toumaz Technology, the specialist in wireless persoal monitoring and signals technology, has announced that its hardware, software and sensors that are being used for large-scale data capture in the DIAdvisor clinical trial.
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GE and Intel commit €184m to telecare research
General Electric and Intel have joined forces to develop hi-tech health care products that will allow patients to be treated at home. The companies will invest €184m ($250m) in the project over the next five years to market and develop home-based health technologies that will help older people live independently and patients with chronic conditions […]
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EU agency analyses risks of e-health
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has issued a report focusing on emergent risk scenarios in remote eHealth monitoring and treatment environments. The ENISA report examines the major potential Emerging and Future Risks (EFR) in a possible remote health monitoring and treatment scenario. It takes the scenario of an individual with diabetes in […]
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