News Headlines 23 June 2016
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As in the past, we will be continuing to bring you an extensive curated coverage of digital health and technology enabled care references from the UK and around the world including telehealth, telecare, mobile health, telemedicine, ehealth, smart home technologies and Internet of Things. We will also be including more in the future on health informatics (including electronic health and care records), big data, artificial intelligence as well as health and care robotics.
Weekly Headlines
Injured at Glastonbury? Three little words will help medics find you - via guardian
Internet of Things, Machine Learning & Robotics Are High Priorities For Developers In 2016 – via Forbes
Wearables – The New Fabrics Of Our Lives - via tech50plus
Dr. Google goes to school for new symptom search function - via medcitynews
When robots are good listeners, humans respond positively, says new research - via
TechRepublic
Medtronic inks deal with Canary Health, enters pre-diabetes market - via BeckersHR
Boehringer Ingelheim launches 'gamified' COPD initiative - via PMLiVEcom
Health and housing experts in Scotland team up to create sustainable homes of the future - via
ScotHousingNews
From India: Connected healthcare platform Dr. Bean on-boarded 4,000 docs & 10,000 users in 6 months - via YourStoryCo
The benefits of using mHealth in the UK - via SalusDigital
AMA: Telemedicine training should be core part of med school - via FierceHealth
Using Wearables to Empower the Patient - via mHealthIntel
New Remote Monitoring Collaboration Targets Cystic Fibrosis - via mHealthIntel
Medelinked m-health app launched free to NHS patients, doctors - via totaltelecom
Health and social care bodies warn integration and transformation plans are at risk - via
HospitalDr
Public confidence in Government NHS plan hits new low, survey reveals - via TheBMA
UK has half as many hospital beds per patient as France and Germany - via MailOnline
Nursing poll finds patient health is being put at risk by funding cuts - via itvnews
BMA chief attacks David Cameron over 'safe in my hands' NHS promise - via guardian
Healthcare Wakes Up to the Value of mHealth and Sleep - via mHealthIntel
From Australia: Doctors want patient control over e-health records revoked - via iTnews_au
GE Developing Wireless Patch That Analyzes Sweat, Tracks Vitals - via MedDeviceOnline
From Canada: iPads used to track COPD, heart failure patients at home - via CBCNews
Emerging technologies present biggest opportunities for NZ healthcare - via VoxyNZ
Medtronic, Tunstall Healthcare Lead Rapidly Growing Euro Telehealth Patient Monitoring Market - via Marketwired
I’m Feeling Yucky :( Searching for symptoms on Google - via google
Mobile health apps and digital devices made available on NHS - via MPN_Magazine
Somewhere between physicians & patients is the truth about digital health & patient engagement - via medcitynews
Under Armour And Nike: Fighting To Win The Next Round - via FastCompany
Open for applications - NHS Innovation Accelerator (closes 1 August) - via NHSEngland
Apple talks up health and fitness benefits of new Watch operating system - via PMLiVEcom
How Patients Can Win With Telemedicine - via MayoClinic
From the U.S.: Telepharmacy Market Expanded from Rural Healthcare Facilities - via
Medgadget
AMA posts new telehealth ethical guidance - via HealthITNews
EU CHROMED Project: Telemedicine holds out hope for better disease management - via
medical_xpress
NHS telehealth and telecare framework gets cloud-based healthcare system - via
digihealthnews
Study: Simulating Interprofessional Geriatric Patient Care Using Telehealth: A Team-Based Learning Activity - via Study
Four robots that will help an ageing demographic - via GovInsider
Newest Hospital Hire: Humanoid Robot - via LifeZette
Toyota is creating 'sophisticated' robots to take care of older people - via techinsider
NHS finance directors pressured to agree 'unsustainable' targets - via HSJnews (£ subs)
Record 12,000 people with dementia in Japan go missing in 2015 - via Independent
Survey: Adoption of Health IT to Improve Care Coordination Remains Sluggish - via
HCInformatics
State lawmakers ramp up efforts to remove telemedicine hurdles - via FierceHealth
Why Virtual Reality Will Be the Most Social Computing Platform Yet - via kylebrussell
Kaiser: Your doctor will see you now – in this telemedicine kiosk - via USATODAY
Start-ups selling new blood tests directly to consumers raise safety and accuracy concerns - via
latimes
Making NHS data public is not the same as making it accessible – we can and should do better - via guardian
UK consumers support fines for firms that lose personal data - via ComputerWeekly
Fitbit’s newest feature reminds you to go tobed - via TechCrunch
Meet The New Wave Of Wearables: Stretchable Electronics - via FastCompany
Cybersecurity needs to be attacked from a people point of view (Dan Taylor at @hscic) - via
hscic
Pubs, cinemas and chickens: five things you wouldn't expect in a care home - via guardian
Thomas Cook: British holidaymakers can access UK GP whilst overseas within 10 mins via app - via digihealthnews
Data the cornerstone of digital transformation - via HealthITCentral
Watch again - videos from NHS Confed conference 2016 - via nhsconfed
Platforms to connect innovators and potential users of their innovations - via nesta_uk
Can wearables empower patients despite doctors’ skepticism? - via RWW
Privatisation is hurting the social care workforce - via guardian
Digital Health Will Only Become Our Generation's Snake Oil If We Let It - via Forbes
Silent epidemic of chronic pain affects nearly 28 million in UK, study suggests - via guardian
Change to prostate cancer treatment could save millions of pounds - via guardian
Major hospital incidents becoming year-round occurrence, nurses warn - via guardian
Up to half of UK people living in pain - study estimates - via BBCNews
Endless winter in NHS puts patients at risk - via BBCNews
Man seeking robot: One inventor's quest to cure loneliness - via CNET
OpenAI says it will build a household robot and intelligent agents - via VentureBeat
Event: 'Telehealth Quality Group - 21 June, Manchester - via The_TQG
The NHS needs a strong dose of tech investment - via guardian
Fitbit on prescription? It might just work | Birmingham News Room - via healthybrum
Development and testing of digital tenancies in social housing - via nesta_uk
Twitter acquires AI startup Magic Pony for a reported $150m - via guardian
Brain scan software 'could save lives of soldiers - via BBCNews
Government planning major intervention in NHS finances - via HSJnews (£ subs)
Stevens: Give any extra funding to social care over NHS - via HSJnews (£ subs)
Tough times ahead for the NHS, head of the service warns - via Telegraph
BMA warning over family doctor shortage in Scotland - via BBCNews
Being obese or overweight could cause 7.6 million cases of disease by 2035 - via
CR_UK
Patients need a more active role in healthcare decision-making - via guardian
NHS boss says promise of £8bn in extra funding may be far from enough - via guardian
Everything you wanted to know about diabetes - via guardian
Self-driving trucks: what's the future for America's 3.5 million truckers? - via guardian
North Middlesex A&E staff describe unit as unsafe and unsupported - via guardian
Google working on 'common-sense' AI engine at new Zurich base - via BBCNews
Britain leads Europe in tech, with 18 of 47 $1bn companies – report - via guardian
Simon Stevens promises med tech tariff in grim speech - via digitalhealth2
GPs having to offer budget airline-style care - via BBCNews
Millions of patients to get access to life-saving gadgets, under NHS plan - via Telegraph
NHS to offer free devices and apps to help people manage illnesses - via guardian
Hunt "relentless" on delivering paperless NHS - via digitalhealth2
Search for NHS England's new CTIO drags on - via digitalhealth2
New Care Models and Staff Engagement: All Aboard - via NHSEngland
All aboard the Immortality Bus: the man who says tech will help us live forever - via guardian
Hacking healthcare: How virtual reality can aid our vitality - via TheDrum
New York Legislation to Require Payment Parity for Telehealth Services - via natlawreview
Zeiss made a really premium Google Cardboardheadset for VR - via TechCrunch
Wachter #digitalhealth report 'purdahed' but says CCIOs essential - via digitalhealth2
The facts: EU immigration and pressure on the NHS - via NuffieldTrust
As someone with learning disabilities, I believe we need a say in services we use | Gary Bourlet - via guardian
Getting a top CQC rating has been hard work, but worth the effort - via guardian
Enfield Council uses robotic 'supercomputer' instead of humans to deliver frontline services - via
standardnews
Mackey: 22,000 affordable homes for staff to be built on NHS land - via HSJnews (£ subs)
Virtual reality sickness tackled with field of view trick - via BBCNews
Should the NHS prescribe wearable fitness trackers - via TheConversation
In iOS 10, you’ll be able to request medical records on an iPhone: Here’s how it works - via
TheNextWeb
Major study links low internet usage to slow broadband - via BBCNews
NHS is short of the sleeves-rolled-up, practical people who can show you how they did things... - via RoyLilley
Could digital technology help 'save the NHS' from financial meltdown? - via Telegraph
First 10 sites of Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme ready to make referral - via NHSEngland
Vision & values in a digital age: Interview with Birmingham City Council CEO Mark Rogers - via
PublicTech
UK health authorities back supplier IT interoperability group - via GovComputing
Doing digital inclusion: carers handbook - via TinderFdn
Results of year-long remote patient monitoring pilot for heart failure in Pennsylvania - via
mHealthIntel
Talkspace raises $15 million to expand MH texting and video therapy services - via
MobiHealthNews
South West NHS 111 service rated inadequate - via BBCNews
NHS 111 service putting patients 'at risk of harm - via guardian
Mobile phones are our history, not our future: Nokia on where next for hardware - via ZDNet
Bringing digital revolution into hospitals helps Parkinson’s patients - 6m wait reduced to 7 days - via euronews
Loneliness kills – yet housing that could help is under threat - via guardian
Deloitte’s Harry Greenspun on consumers & caregivers plugging into tech-enabled home health - via hitconsultant
Robot on the run: self-learning android escapes testing area and causes havoc on the roads - via MailOnline
Health and social care leaders call for faster service integration - via PharmaTimes
Could your doctor Check Your Tweets For Signs You're Depressed? - via FastCompany
Care quality hit by delays in doctors accessing scans and x-rays - via HSJnews (£ subs)
Studies on virtual care platforms aren't providing a clear picture of value of telemedicine - via
mHealthIntel
George Freeman or Alice Thomson: whose vision for the NHS? - via reformthinktank
'Safety risk' at ambulance trust - via BBCNews
The truth about working for the on-demand economy - via guardian
Search for new NHS England tech chief extended after failure to appoint - via HSJnews (£ subs)
NIA 2016 looking for innovations to help prevention, earlier intervention + LTC management - via NHSEngland
Six principles from @NVTweeting on engaging people - via NVTweeting
Councils respond to latest NHS health check figures - via LGAcomms
Code of Conduct on privacy for mHealth apps has been finalised - via DSMeu
Housing our Ageing Population - Making retirement living a positive choice (HAPPI3) - via
HousingLIN
Three commissioners in Birmingham consider merger to form biggest CCG - via
HSJnews (£ subs)
Health & social care integration about leadership as well as tech, say local govt & NHS bodies - via PublicTech
Don Berwick: I have growing confidence in NHS's ability to deliver change - via guardian
Stephen Dorrell: We can’t just keep bailing out A&E (David Brindle) - via guardian
In Norway centralised healthcare works. Should the NHS follow suit? - via guardian
Apple’s announcement on artificial intelligence is a big shift for the company - via
washingtonpost
Take part in survey: creating health information for people with learning disabilities - via
PiFonline
China’s co-living boom puts hundreds of millennials under one roof - via qz
AHSN Impact Report 2016 released - via TheEAHSN
AHSNs are proving to be a good deal - via HSJnews (£ subs)
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Patient Engagement? - via hitconsultant
Using Artificial Intelligence to Humanize Management and Set Information Free - via mitsmr
Apple’s ‘Differential Privacy’ Is About Collecting Your Data—But Not Your Data - via WIRED
Facebook Offers Tools for Those Who Fear a Friend May Be Suicidal - via nytimes
Wireless monitoring of sick kids rolls-out in Birmingham - via digitalhealth2
Growing numbers of children have type 2 diabetes, figures show - via guardian
NHS Confederation and LGA warn integration and transformation plans are at risk (new report) - via nhsconfed
Leadership in the NHS (by Marcus Powell) - via TheKingsFund
Stanford Children's CMO: Mobile disruption key to new care models - via FierceHealth
10 of the best virtual reality apps for your smartphone - via guardian
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