The Swedish phone handset company Doro has been growing in the telecare/telehealth market in Europe for some years and, indicated by this press release, still has big plans. New products to be shown at the MEDICA conference are: The Doro… Read moreDoro to showcase new offerings within telecare and telehealth at MEDICA (Germany)
This year’s awards winners are to be announced at the TSA conference this evening. Here are the shortlisted organisations: TSA Crystal Awards 2012.
Editor Donna wandered over this afternoon to New York’s Union Square (where the lights are all on now) for the Consumer Electronics Association’s preview of International CES, the annual Las Vegas extravaganza held 8-11 January 2013. And no surprise, the excitement’s all about tablets and smartphones–but what is a little surprising is the CES emphasis on health and wellness as a growth area that is a result.
The projected growth of tablets is stunning:
According to CEA’s chief economist Shawn duBravac and head industry analyst Steve Koenig, applications around health, fitness and full fledged home health care have exploded as developers build out tablets–an unintended consequence of this explosive growth. Thus 2013 CES is devoting more TechZones around and including health and telehealth. The umbrella of Living in Digital Times includes TechZones Digital Health Summit (with 215 exhibitors), Silvers Summit and (new) Fitness Tech. Health also shows up in TechZones such as Robotics and Eureka Park for startups/early stage companies (the last including Affectiva and Scanadu recently covered here).
And after the talk there was some show ‘n’ tell for exhibitors….including an impressive debut…
New York City-headquartered Tunstall AMAC announced that it is expanding its call center operations based in Rhode Island to an eventual 250 staff. They have also negotiated space in economically challenged Pawtucket, locating in an ‘economically distressed’ area of town… Read moreTunstall's AMAC plans Rhode Island expansion; management changes
