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Health Devices in Homes Stimulate Global Telemedicine Market

John Pulley | NextGov | July 4, 2012

Growing acceptance of home patient monitoring technology will help to enlarge the global telemedicine market to $2.5 billion by 2018, more than triple the 2011 market of $736 million, according to the British market research firm Companies & Markets. Read More »

AtHoc Launches Emergency Alert System For Home Health Caregivers

Neil Versel | MobiHealthNews | October 17, 2013

A company with a background in emergency alerts and crisis communications is entering the commercial healthcare market by adapting a system previously designed for government operations and by introducing a safety app for home health workers. Read More »

CAT-Zim SACMA Launch Zimbabwe’s Own Version Of USHAHIDI

Staff Writer | The Zimbabwean | June 4, 2013

Southern Africa Crisis Management Agency (SACMA) and Christian Action Trust Zimbabwe (CAT-Zim) have come together to launch a grassroots anchored peace initiative ahead Zimbabwe’s watershed elections this year. Read More »

Coming To Your City – The Internet Of Machines

Paul Wallbank | SmartCompany | July 4, 2013

An intriguing infographic from Spanish sensor manufacturer Libelium – which to Australian ears sounds like a new age defamation law firm – illustrates how the internet of things is being used in all walks of life from shipping containers to park benches. Read More »

Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for FrontlineSMS

Juliana Bedoya Carmona | FrontlineSMS | July 24, 2012

I have recently joined the FrontlineSMS team in Nairobi as part of an ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation Project rolled out by FrontlineSMS in collaboration with [others]. So far, my experience in Nairobi has been very enriching. Getting to know the FrontlineSMS Nairobi team, meeting FrontlineSMS users and finding out about other M4D and ICT4D start-ups working out of Nairobi’s iHub, has been a very exciting and valuable learning opportunity. Read More »

Dr. Eric Topol Joins The Wide Open Road Of mHealth As AT&T As Chief Medical Advisor

Ryan Sartor | Health Tech Zone | February 6, 2014

Last fall Verizon announced FDA approval for their Converged Health Management System, a remote patient monitoring platform to connect doctors with patient vitals using HIPPA level security. Now AT&T is upping the ante, announcing the appointment of Eric Topol, MD as Chief Medical Advisor, in charge of design, development and delivery of the company’s healthcare IT solutions. Read More »

Federal CIO Outlines Next Steps

J. Nicholas Hoover | InformationWeek | February 21, 2013

With Obama's first term in the rearview mirror, federal CIO Steven VanRoekel is looking for ways to continue to improve federal IT even in the face of looming budget cuts. Read More »

Five Ways Advanced Social Intelligence Guides Pharma Strategy

Mark Langsfield | PharmExec.com | June 4, 2013

Within the billions of daily comments from individuals across open social sources lies deep intelligence into markets, brands, patients, caregivers, healthcare providers and competitors. Several leading pharmaceutical companies are already using big data solutions to extract insights from the social realm... Read More »

Google: 'Government Surveillance Is On The Rise'

Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | November 13, 2012

It's not just Petraeus. Google is seeing ever greater efforts by governments to monitor citizens' online activity. Read More »

Google’s New “Moto X” Superphone Will Spy On You 24/7, And You’ll Like It

Christopher Mims | Nextgov | May 31, 2013

Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola, Google’s wholly owned phone-making subsidiary, walked onto a stage yesterday with the company’s rumored new superphone, and while he refused to take it out of his pocket, he confirmed that it’s real and that it’s launching in October of this year. Read More »

Grant Awarded To Project Lungisa – Cape Town SA

Louise Vickers | Indigo Trust | August 30, 2012

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded a grant of £12,000 to Cell Life towards project Lungisa.   Lungisa – which means “fix it” in isiXhosa – will provide a platform to enable Cape Town citizens to send text based, audio and video reports outlining challenges in service delivery. Read More »

If PRISM Is Good Policy, Why Stop With Terrorism?

Derek Khanna | The Atlantic | July 4, 2013

Defenders of the program say its effectiveness excuses it -- but they ignore the Fourth Amendment. Read More »

Lack Of Standardization, Evidence Hinders Wireless Patient Monitoring

Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobileHealthcare | February 18, 2013

Although venture capitalists recognize the potential for long-term returns from bringing "disruptive" wireless patient monitoring (WPM) technologies to market, the lack of standards in interoperability may delay the scaling up of these technologies, says a new report from research firm Frost & Sullivan. Read More »

Let The Left Hand Know What The Right Is Doing: A Vision For Care Coordination And Electronic Health Records

Robert S Rudin and David W Bates | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) | June 19, 2013

Despite the potential for electronic health records to help providers coordinate care, the current marketplace has failed to provide adequate solutions. [...] Read More »

Libelium Brings New Smart Lighting Sensor Solution To Smart Cities

Press Release | Libelium | March 18, 2013

Libelium today announced the availability of a new Smart Lighting solution for Smart Cities deployments based on the modular Waspmote Plug & Sense! wireless sensor network platform. Read More »