Voice tech boosts e-health services
Vocal tech and services company Loquendo has provided voice synthesis technology, developed by Indisys and Sadiel, for Spain's new e-health service, says TMCnet.
Maria Jesus Montero, chief officer of Health Andalucia, introduced the service in March at the European Ambient Assisted Living Innovation Alliance conference.
The conference was aimed at ways of improving the quality of life of the disabled and elderly by boosting their autonomy via new technologies. The highly developed natural language solutions from Indisys play a significant role in e-health citizen services.
Cellphone study 'not useless'
A New Zealand expert claims the inconclusive 10-year World Health Organisation (WHO) study into the links between cellphone use and brain cancer is not useless, states TVNZ.
Environmental medicine expert Dr David Black says the study, which surveyed over 13 000 cellphone users, is thorough and extremely useful.
"The results that have come out are pretty much what would be expected and they are consistent and coherent with what we already know," he says.
US tracks health IT incentive payments
The Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has tapped Northrop Grumman to develop a national repository for tracking incentive payments to healthcare providers, which CMS will pay for meaningful use of electronic health records starting in 2011, reports Healthcare IT News.
Northrop Grumman will develop, implement and maintain the data repository for incentive payment disbursements of Medicare and Medicaid programmes to medical professionals, hospitals, and other organisations.
"As the US undergoes a significant transformation of its healthcare system, the National Level Repository will meet a critical need by processing millions of transactions to provide correct and accurate payments to our countless professionals, institutions and state agencies... ," said Amy King, Northrop's VP of health IT programmes.
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