Will you laugh or cry after reading the article Telecare scheme branded ‘waste of money’ from the Lancashire Evening Telegraph? You might laugh in disbelief. If the county council has not been able to persuade the leaders of the district… Read moreIs Building Telecare in England coming off the rails?
This article by the Care Services Improvement Partnership’s Mike Clark and Jeremy Porteus, ‘Telecare in the Community‘ is a description of the official view of the current state of telecare and telehealth in the UK, with a cautious look towards… Read moreTelecare in the Community: Clark & Porteus
Timex producing a ‘medical alert’ watch, described in this story.
The university has developed a range of wireless sensor technologies with IBM to assist the elderly and infirm to increase their independence and maintain a better quality of life. A ‘smart house’ containing devices designed to help monitor the inhabitant’s… Read moreIBM and Florida University prototype home patient-monitoring systems
Reporting in theInternational Journal of Electronic Healthcare, Thulasi Bai and S.K. Srivatsa from Sathyabama University in Tamil Nadu, India, have developed a wearable (bluetooth-based) cardiac “telemedicine” system for post-cardiac patients. Article from the Washington Post.
AeroScout a provider of Wi-Fi-based Active RFID and Surecom, specialist in IT&C services have announced that they are working together to implement a first of its kind medical alerting system for PresCare, a large Australian aged care provider. PresCare required… Read moreAeroScout Wi-Fi RFID for Patient Safety and Medical Alerting (Australia)
