Here’s a good indication that smartphone apps are gaining some traction in home care. The largest non-profit home health agency in the US, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), designed a program to monitor juvenile diabetes using the WellDoc… Read moreVNSNY/Sprint juvenile diabetes monitoring program

Philips’s US Lifeline operation has just announced the introduction of a pendant alarm (medical alert/PERS) with a built-in fall detection system that automatically raises an alert call if a fall is detected and a button press is not made within… Read morePhilips puts nail in pendant alarm coffin