New York-based AMAC is to be bought by Tunstall Healthcare Group. AMAC is reported to have 75,000 PERS subscribers in the US and Tunstall has been looking to expand into the US market. [Is it too much to hope that the acquisition will start to move the market in the US away from pendant alarms towards the use of other telecare monitoring devices? Ed. Steve] Details in the press release: Tunstall Healthcare Group Limited to Acquire AMAC, American Medical Alert Corp.

Better care for people with long term conditions: the quality and good governance of telehealth services is a report published July 2011 by the UK’s Good Governance Institute. Despite its unusual provenance, it is actually one of the best reports… Read moreReport: Good Governance of Telehealth Services