Research ‘smart homes’ have been called ‘expensive places where eHealth tech goes to die’ but this may break the mold in intention and results. Over the past two years, Alcatel-Lucent, in conjunction with Bell Labs Antwerp, have been developing a… Read moreThe sensitive home
Sensor-based monitoring from the M2M perspective. This article is the first news in quite a while from Healthsense, a remote behavioral telecare system used in US assisted living and home care. Healthsense, like WellAWARE, has moved into basing the person’s everyday… Read moreSleepless sensors
The Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Philipp Rösler, will be the official patron of TeleHealth, the fair for computerised medicine taking place under the umbrella of CeBIT 2010. Dr. Rösler will also open TeleHealth on 2 March. More information from… Read moreGerman Federal Minister of Health to open TeleHealth at CeBIT 2010
Older people who live alone are to be offered a friendly weekly phone call from phone and broadband provider TalkTalk UK. The free service, We’ll Call You, is desescribed by TalkTalk’s Communications Director, Mark Schmid: “We’re not trying to replace… Read moreTalkTalk: free weekly chats for older people living alone (UK)
More doom and gloom for councils, fuelled by the Audit Commission, but this BBC report does quote it as saying “councils need to look at new and innovative ways to provide services, particularly by embracing technology.” and that “It highlighted… Read moreCouncils 'will struggle with ageing population' says Audit Commission (UK)
The Continua Alliance extends its reach with the SmartPersonalHealth project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Programme [as if Continua couldn’t have funded it itself] to promote “the interoperability of connected Personal Health Systems with the wider eHealth… Read moreSmartPersonalHealth Project (EU)
