Archive for May, 2010

  • M-Health-Masthead

    mHealth Alliance joins mHealth 2010 as associate partner

    mHealth 2010 which is due to kick-off on the 13th September in Dubai later this year has announced that the mHealth Alliance will be joining the event as an associate partner. Formed in February 2009, the mHealth Alliance is made up of the Rockerfeller Foundation,...

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    Qualcomm, Hughes Telematics and American Medical Alert Corporation to collaborate on mobile health solution

    Earlier this month, telecoms giant Qualcomm announced a joint venture with Hughes Telematics and the American Meical Alert Corporation to deliver mobile health services through Lifecomm LLC. Lifecomm LLC was formed by cash and in-kind contributions by the three parties and will operate as a...

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    WellDoc wins at Mobile Merit Awards 2010

    The winners of the Mobile Merit Awards 2010 were announced yesterday, with Baltimore based WellDoc being named victorious in the mHealth category and Massachusetts based PatientKeeper the runner-up. WellDoc develops a modular platform for the management of chronic illnesses which can be configured to support...

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  • ecgAnywhere

    HealthFrontier launch ecgAnywhere monitor

    Earlier this week, New Jersey based HealthFrontier announced the launch of their ecgAnywhere device. As part of their Remote Health Monitoring System the ecgAnywhere from Microtel will allow near real time viewing of diagnostic 12 lead ECG. The ecgAnywhere unit fits comfortably in the palm...

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  • The Zio Patch from iRhythm

    iRhythm announces partnership with St Jude Medical, secures new VC funding

    Manufacturer of cardiac monitoring devices, iRhythm, recently signed a deal with St Jude Medical to co-market the Zio Patch, a single-use cardiac rhythm monitor. At the same time, iRhythm has announced that it has raised $10 million in a new round of VC funding. This...

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  • Cardiocom

    Cardiocom releases new pulse oximeter to extend telehealth platform

    Minneapolis based Cardiocom, a designer and manufacturer of telehealth communication devices and vital sign peripherals including blood pressure systems and weight scales, has added a pulse oximeter offering to its telehealth platform. Designed for use in the home telehealth environment, the internally developed device offers...

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  • CareLink

    Medtronic announce cellular accessory for CareLink Network

    Developer of medical technologies for chronic diseases, Medtronic, announced earlier this week the availability of the new M-Link cellular accessory. The device will allows cardiac patients to securely send information stored in implanted devices to their clinics via the CareLink Network using cellular signals opposed...

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  • Sana in Use (2)

    mHealth Alliance Award winners Sana speak to mHealth Update

    Sana, formerly known as MocaMobile, is a multidisciplinary group from MIT which offers an open source platform that enables healthcare workers to perform a structured clinical assessment including audio, image, text and location-based data on a mobile phone and synchronise it with a central electronic...

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  • Remote monitoring to save over $5 billion by 2014

    Remote monitoring to save over $5 billion by 2014

    According to Juniper Research’s Mobile Health Opportunities Report, public and private healthcare providers will be able to save between $1.96 billion and $5.83 billion in healthcare costs through the use of remote patient monitoring over cellular networks by the year 2014. The report notes that...

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  • Apple’s iPhone to include an integrated heart monitor?

    Apple’s iPhone to include an integrated heart monitor?

    There is always a great deal of speculation surrounding Apple products whether they are all new devices such as the iPad or an incremental upgrade like the iPhone 4G. Since technology blog Gizmodo got their hands on a prototype of the iPhone 4G the web...

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