iPhone app for "seniors" by EHSI: EHSI will soon launch an iPhone app for seniors called “Auto-Med.” The application will "automatically call users every day to remind them at the precise time of exactly what medication and dosage they are to take based upon their doctor’s recommendation." EHSI plans to complete the app in about two months and begin selling it with a $10 per month subscription. More

Telus' healthcare biz expanding: A number of articles published this week about Canadian wireless operator Telus' working relationship with Microsoft. While the two companies' HealthVault deal had been announced last year, one interesting tidbit from Cananada.com: Revenue from Telus' health-care business is expanding by more than 10 percent a year and the unit is profitable. More

2,000 free phones for health workers: In Rwanda a total of 2283 community health workers will get free mobile phones as part of government’s efforts to boost the health sector. More

Laurie Orlov's Aging in Place Technology Watch: "If the technology is available to offer broader use (as with mobile PERS), and you can provide it at a reasonable cost (to you and to the customer) then you must do so -- rather than constrain a product's use. Perhaps marketers think they know their target market well -- frail, older, lives alone, doesn't get out much, avoids gadgets. But every year is another year in which a family member may talk or demonstrate use of GPS trackable cell phones, smart phones, move-by-move talking directions, webcams, online chatting. These family members are deeply engaged in social networks of people like themselves; so will their older family members." More

Dell scores one for Health IT: "These kinds of innovations are different. Hospitals and clinics have become among our largest, and most innovative, users of WiFi technology. Wireless is a platform built for medicine, so why should printers need wires?" More