The Minnetonka-based health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a partnership with Cisco Systems. The plan is to build a nationwide telehealth network using Cisco videoconferencing technology. More detail is due to be… Read moreUnitedHealth and Cisco telehealth partnership
A home monitoring program for heart patients is helping them live longer and is saving money, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute says. The remote nursing program developed by the institute has cut hospital readmissions by 79 per cent over… Read moreHome monitoring cuts patients' readmissions by four-fifths
Demonstrating the robustness of the sector: American Medical Alert Corp. (AMAC) was listed in this year’s list of Fortune Small Business Magazine’s 100 Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies for the fifth consecutive year. Press release.
There is a logic in an organisation that provides 24-hour assistance to motorists, and a range of health insurance-related services providing telecare to people in their own homes. See this page from the website of the Reial Automòbil Club de… Read moreCatalan automobile club provides telecare (Spain)
The headline tells it all. Was it press release-worthy news? Maybe on a slow week. Did they make the best of ? You decide: Press release here.
At last Tunstall’s most interesting development in a while gets more publicity. Nottingham’s pioneering social care technology wins national award. (Previous Telecare Aware item.)
It’s through rather gritted teeth that I give you the link to an article in Scotland’s ‘The Herald’. Peace of mind for elderly at touch of a button which references Help the Aged’s Aid Call service. Whilst it has two… Read moreScotland's got pendants
Article in the Los Angeles Times highlights that the profound challenge of an ageing population is going to hit China hard owing to the one-child rule imposed 30 years ago. “The problem is the age wave is coming while China… Read moreChina's elderly will overwhelm the nation
Ashford-based Red Alert Telecare is helping to raise awareness of the life-saving potential of telecare amongst the general public by winning another mainstream business award…The company, which was named Most Promising New Business by its local chamber of commerce earlier… Read moreRed Alert raises public awareness of telecare (UK)
According to the DH web page, “In response to an emerging need from the health technology and bioscience industry support organisations, the Department for Business (BERR) and the Department of Health (DH) commissioned a feasibility study in June 2008 on… Read moreBioscience and Health Technology Database (UK)
