In The Times on Saturday, there was a long-ish item berating Age UK’s Aid Call for being slow to replace 8000 old Tunstall Lifeline alarm units with Tynetec alternatives. 18 months after the problem was identified the change over is
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Monthly Archives October 2011
Bed occupancy monitors: new comparative report (UK)
To help service providers determine the most appropriate device for their clients, T-Cubed and their partners have conducted research on over 15 bed occupancy monitoring devices currently on the market, ranging from standard telecare offerings to systems that employ technologies
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Assessing PTSD via virtual reality
PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) or concussion diagnosis and treatment can be difficult, especially when symptoms are not readily or sporadically apparent. This has especially proven to be a problem for the US armed services in assessing the extent of
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Robotic assisted exoskeleton update
The Wall Street Journal recently caught up with the bionic assist of exoskeleton-type robotic suits, to assist paraplegics in walking again. This article is about Ekso Bionics of Berkeley, California and their 50-pound suit, which they expect to go to
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Shoes with embedded GPS to go on sale in US
17 months ago we flagged up (via Laurie Orlov) the development of shoes with built-in GPS tracking for people with dementia. [Coming soon: GPS Shoes TA May 2010] but now, according to a Gizmag item they have received FDA approval
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Telehealth resources from Yorkshire & Humber (UK)
The Yorkshire and Humber Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) has produced and made available some useful resources, in particular an on-line Telehealth Toolkit and PDF workbooks on Teleconsultation and Telemonitoring. All three can be accessed from this web page.
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Jordan goes all-out for Cisco-based eHealth system
The Jordan Times announces that a pilot scheme using a system set up by Cisco is to be extended to “create a database of patients’ medical histories across the Kingdom, covering all state-run hospitals, the Royal Medical Services, Al Hussein
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Happtique: making sense of the health app catalog
Happtique (Healthcare-APP-bouTIQUE) provides a growing app catalog of what it calls “hApps” or healthcare applications. “In other app stores, searches are limited to ‘medical’ or ‘health’, generating hundreds of generalized pages of apps. Apple recently attempted to develop its own
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Telehealth saves the tattered fisc of California?
It’s a bit of a reach, but according to the Center for Connected Health Policy, one of the major plumpers for the Telehealth Advancement Act of 2011 (AB 415) [TA 11 Oct], the fiscal impact of the legislation on Medi-Cal
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Isansys Lifecare (UK) sets up in India
Readers who have been tracking the progress of UK telehealth monitoring device company Isansys Lifecare [TA items: Jan 2011; May 2011] will be interested to note that it has now set up an Indian company, Isansys Lifecare Systems Pvt Ltd.
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