Article about Lifetime Care’s use of Honeywell’s HomMed technologies. (Lifetime Care is a home health agency in Rochester, New York is a $5 billion not-for-profit health insurer that finances and delivers health care to more than 2 million people.)
Richard Granger, NHS director general of IT, has said that the extension of health technology into the home – probably based at first on proprietary systems – would “free things up in terms of time and place” within the NHS…. Read moreNHS planning major telehealth rollout
Tiresias, an information resource website for people working in the field of visual impairments that has been running since 1999, has made this 335 page report by COST (supported by the EU RTD Framework Programme) available for download. It’s theme… Read moreTowards an inclusive future: Impact and wider potential of information and communication technologies
I suspect that not many people these days feel they have time to read a dry-sounding 55 page report. But that would be a pity when it comes to this one published by the Royal Society before Christmas. They have… Read moreDigital healthcare: the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on health and healthcare
Future developments and intentions of some of the big players in the technological fields are revealed in this jam-packed press release, making it a candidate for listing here. If you can’t bear to read it all, at least see the… Read moreNew Convergence of CE Products with Content and Dynamic Keynote Addresses Highlight Day One of the 2007 International CES
Awesome! Israel-based CNOGA Inc. reports the development of contact-free physiological monitoring by using a simple video camera. The new technology can detect a person’s pulse rate, blood pressure, blood O2, CO2 and more from a distance by focusing on the… Read moreOne to watch: Touch-free life-sign monitoring by videocamera
The new micro-sensors are based on an organic semiconductor. “To meet the requirements for low-cost, large-area sensor applications such as smart fabric systems, the sensors need to be light, flexible, washable, and even disposable,” said Professor Vijay Varadan. “These requirements can hardly… Read moreUniversity of Arkansas develops low-cost wearable micro-sensors
A good sign! For example, MedAmerica has developed an affordable new type of long term care insurance policy (CareDirections® Simplicity) which is unique in that an insured could use benefits to purchase whatever is needed with no restrictions, including home… Read moreTelehealth and telecare starting to be recognised by US health insurers
Satisfyingly lengthy and general article summarising points from the recently published book Home Telehealth: Connecting Care within the Community, edited by Wootton, Dimmick and Kvedar, though not much new for Telecare Aware readers.
The article this item links to is on the ‘difficult to interpret’ side unless you are one of the techies it was written for. However, the notable point is that sensors included in a ZigBee network can be placed much… Read moreAnother one to watch: Zigbee technologies
