Report by Parkes Associates (market research consultancy) entitled New Healthcare Study Outlines Strategies to Increase Adoption of Home Health Monitoring Technologies: Opportunities for Vendor Success in Projected $2.5 Billion Digital Health Industry. Press release.
An extra £8 million is to be spent on hi-tech devices that help older and vulnerable [whatever that means] people live in their own homes. The cash was announced by public health minister Shona Robison during a visit to Inverness,… Read moreScotland: Extra £8m for telecare
Take this system out of the hospital, simplify the remote control, put it into people’s homes and add the ability to transmit data from telecare sensors and health monitoring devices and it seems to me that you have the CareMATE… Read moreInternet for hospital patients points to future telecare/telehealth systems
This item is aimed at helping US consumers with criteria for judging an alarm monitoring service. It is written by Howard Feldman, President of Pioneer Emergency Response. He is a founding member of the Medical Alert Monitoring Association and has… Read moreMedical alert monitoring secrets
A new Seattle-based company called Healthphone has been formed to market the system in the US and elsewhere. Healthphone general manager Pam Fowler explained: “You get all the documentation, care plans, treatments, and images in one place. Other wounds are… Read moreTelehealth for wound care via the Healthphone (US)
AMD Telemedicine has announced that it has identified telemedicine initiatives – in the form of educational courses, clinical programs, and affiliated hospital networks – affiliated with 23 U.S. colleges, universities and schools of medicine. Press release.
Each year, consultancy Frost & Sullivan presents the Patient Monitoring Product Innovation of the Year Award to the company that has demonstrated the ability to develop and/or advance products with more innovative capabilities than competing vendors and products. The Award… Read moreCardiocom gains 2008 Patient Monitoring Product Innovation of the Year Award
An early heads-up for your diaries from the organisers of the free Telecare 2008 conference: Date: 27 September 2008 Venue: Lakeside Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham, UK Entry: Free for participants from healthcare, socialcare and third sector organisations URL: www.telecare-events.co.uk… Read moreFree conference: Telecare 2008 (UK)
If you want to know what’s happening in Scotland, the Joint Implementations Team’s telecare web pages summarise a lot of it. The Telecare Programme Background page is a good place to start.
The European launch event of the planned AAL (‘Ambient assisted living’) Joint Programme is planned to take place at the eVITA 2008 (conference and exhibition on ‘infocommunication in the service of everyday life’) to be held in Budapest, Hungary on… Read moreEuropean launch event of the planned AAL ('Ambient assisted living') Joint Programme
