A few of years ago clothing with integrated sensors were on Telecare Aware’s ‘pointer to the future’ list.* Not any more. This video of a sports bra with built in heart rate sensor and attachable wireless transmitter shows why. Video… Read moreHeart rate monitoring sports bra video
Thoughtful little piece by Tomás Sánchez-Criado, PhD student and researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid on the Lancaster University Management School site. It takes the line that telecare doesn’t so much promote independence as interdependence – and has the potential to… Read moreAn ethnographic exploration of telecare
Halton & St Helens PCT deploys telehealth for patients. Template Tunstall press release. In fact it looked so familiar I had to double check the date and the archives to see it it were a truly new story. [While thinking… Read moreHalton & St Helens PCT deploys telehealth for patients
In an article for Hidden Wires (“Europe’s leading residential technology trade magazine”) Guy Dewsbury highlights some ways that technology providers in the UK are going beyond ‘telecare’ into the area of smart home technology to make life easier for disabled… Read moreSmart Home Technology for Disabled People
MedApps and Meridian Health, a large health system in central New Jersey, announced a pilot program for patients discharged from acute care with congestive heart failure (CHF). The program will provide individual patient education and support to improve patient self-management and… Read moreMedApps and Meridian Health partner for CHF pilot
This one slipped under our telecare radar…almost. CloseBy Network premiered its remote monitoring telecare system at CES, but not in the SilversSummit/Digital Health ‘tech zones’. It is multiple sensor-based (motion, contact, pressure [bed and chair] and temperature) and uploads data to create reports… Read moreTelecare debut at CES–CloseBy Network
Laurie Orlov at her Aging in Place Technology website has a long ‘view at variance’ on whether technologies that assist older adults even belong at CES. In her view, they are lost in the ‘crapgadget tsunami’ and would be better… Read moreMore CES analysis (contrarian variety)
If you have a remote monitoring technology that is already in the field and integrated with care organizations, this will be of interest. The Center for Technology and Aging in Oakland, CA released application guidelines for its $500,000 Remote Patient Monitoring… Read moreGrant funding in California for remote monitoring
This brief article from FierceHealthcareIT will assist the bewildered on these three new terms which were hot news at CES. Of course, there’s crossover already, and will they cannibalize smartphones which are now getting traction in healthcare usage? Confounding all is the… Read moreSmartbooks, tablets, slates–what's the difference? And iSlate=iHospital?
The New York Times ‘Health’ section profiles Denmark’s advances in using telehealth both in the home and in hospitals as a sterling example for the US. Their national healthcare started using EHRs over a decade ago and their information system is considered to… Read moreDenmark as model for 'digital care'
