The consumer electronics giant LG has announced a three-year project, starting next month, in association with the University of Alberta and costing CAN$4 million. The proposed cellphone-based device will use ‘new sensing technology to allow patients to send their physiological… Read moreLG and mobile phone vital signs monitoring
Cardiocom received awards for “Best Monitoring Device/Service for Patients/Consumers” and “Best Initiative to Improve Patient Care.” Full story.
Procura provides a fully integrated clinical and back office solution for healthcare. “Collaborating with Honeywell HomMed will further the case for increased care in the home,” said Warren Brown, CEO of Procura. Press release.
The universities of Ulster, Bath and Sheffield will collaborate with Philips and BT to share expertise in telecare research, body worn sensors and telemonitoring technologies. The SMART2 project follows SMART1, which showed how technology could help home rehabilitation for post-stroke… Read moreUK universities in SMART2 project
“The Red Alert AR1000GM system, devised by Alexander Bushell and his colleagues is, as far as we know, the only one that can detect epilepsy” according to this brief item in engineering design site Eureka. Well, there was the Israeli… Read moreWrist-worn epilepsy detector
Further to the item De Montfort University Leicester (UK) ‘invents mobile telecare’, Nov 7, the university announces a new project, to look at the potential role of fuzzy logic in helping analyse monitoring data. BJHC&IM report.
Continua is trying to broaden its membership base to include electronic medical records, insurance, and health care provider companies, Continua’s David Whitlinger reveals in an interview with Digital HealthCare & Productivity.
At last I’ve discovered some snippets of information about one of the WSD project sites: Cornwall’s plan is revealed in two newsletters apparently aimed at GP practices and now published on the council’s website. Regular readers of Telecare Aware will… Read moreCornwall's Whole System Demonstrator project revealed
I suppose I should be cheering the announcement in Putting People First, which is a ‘shared ambition’ report – sorry, concordat – authored by ‘Ministers, local government, NHS, social care, professional and regulatory organisations’ and published by the Department of… Read moreIndividualised budgets expansion announced (UK)
Tunstall press release reveals that “Walsall and Hull have announced the launch of large mainstream deployments of telehealth to monitor people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) in their own homes.” This being so, it… Read moreWalsall and Hull Launch Mainstream Deployments of Telehealth
