I’ve been generally keeping away from Google Health stories as the issues are well covered in the US-focused and highly recommended blog e-CareManagement. However, this link up between Google-hosted health records and a diagnostic test and record provider (read press… Read moreQuest Diagnostics links up with Google Health
Sceptical about the potential of robots to deliver in-home care and eventually replace static telecare systems? You might not be so sure after reading this article and viewing this video. Article: New Robots Can Provide Elder Care For Aging Baby… Read moreNew robots can provide elder care for aging baby boomers
Just following up on the previous Wii stories. Maybe it’s not so good for you, after all. ‘Wii-itus’ is a real condition.
Cambridge Consultants have announced breakthrough software on a single chip that allows medical devices such as blood pressure monitors to transmit data wirelessly. It uses low-cost wireless technology – with a potential cost of less than US $10 at the… Read moreBreakthrough in wireless monitoring chip costs
Just proving it is not difficult to substitute ‘re’ with the name of Nintendo’s ‘Wii’ game box to produce an eye-catching headline as many of the articles below have done. The serious point is that it is being adopted with… Read moreWiimarkable: Can it evolve into a telehealth device?
“You may know AT&T for wired and wireless telecommunications, infrastructure, and disaster recovery. You may not have known, however, that AT&T has formed a healthcare practice and is taking a more active role in helping healthcare organizations make strategic decisions… Read moreWhat’s going on with the iPhone in healthcare? (US)
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
In-car telecare. (Or is that stretching the definition of telecare too far?) Pointer-to-the-future-item indicates how the reach of technology is developing — makes community alarms look ancient. Let the car do the talking.
Last Autumn, Paul Gee, Chief Executive of the UK’s Telecare Services Association, got on the Soapbox and asked the question Tesco Telecare – How far away? Well, it looks to me that the consumer-demand led future for telecare has already… Read moreB&Q dips toe into telecare waters
Famous celebrities are now choosing to travel virtually, as three-dimensional, high-definition holograms and Cisco’s chief executive, John Chambers, aims to bring a two-dimensional high-definition TelePresence system to homes within three years for not much more than £500. Definite pointer to… Read moreGizmo: I am not a robot, I am your daddy
