“Mad [magazine] used the word ‘ecch’ or its cousin ‘blecch’ as an all-purpose expression of disgust so often that even The Simpsons made passing references to the practice” (Wikipedia) Is there anything more to say about the European Centre for
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Monthly Archives May 2010
Coming soon: GPS Shoes (US)
‘GPS shoes’, called Aetrex Ambulators, for people with dementia get a strong pre-release write up in the LA Times. Keeping track of seniors with Alzheimer’s. [Thanks to Laurie Orlov on her blog for the heads-up.]
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EU Call for Tender: Coping with an Ageing Population
Opportunity for academic institutions and consultancies – tender to conduct a study for the EU. Coping with an Ageing Population – Learning from good eHealth and telecare practices. Note the tight tender deadlines! More information from eHealthNews.eu.
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NextAlarm: patent for two-way voice over internet (US)
I suspect this item will either be welcomed by, or cause considerable consternation to, PERS (telecare) companies that have been trying to deal with the onward march of broadband, VoIP services, and the inclusion of digital sections in telephone networks
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Visonic to expand its PERS [telecare] range? (US)
Visonic is a US-based home security company and already has a toe in the market for personal emergency response systems (PERS) – one of the names under which telecare technologies are marketed in the USA. See this web page. However,
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Everon combines GPS safer walking with nurse call system (UK)
In another impressive development, Everon, the supplier of the Vega GPS Safer Walking System (which announced a significant increase in battery life last week) and which also has a nurse call system, has linked the two to give care home
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Mobile Monday Belfast–catch it on 14 June
If you’re in Belfast (N. Ireland, not Maine) on Monday 14 June for Continua Health Alliance’s Summer Summit & Plugfest or the European Connected Health Campus’s Connected Health Week [TA Events], drop in at the Black Box Cafe for a
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AgeTek appoints first CEO and incorporates
Today the Aging Technology Alliance (AgeTek) [TA, 17 March and 23 March], formed between Digital Health @ CES in January and the Boomer Business Summit, announced Bud Myers as its first CEO and formally incorporated. Myers was for many years Senior
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Healthcare CIOs reluctant to go mobile: Gartner
John Lovelock, a Gartner research VP, interviewed by Information Week on why chief information officers (CIOs) in healthcare are reluctant to move to mobile platforms: “These CIOs feel that the proliferation of the number of devices, the number of operating systems, and
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FDA, HHS, FCC, VA and telehealth–two reviews
Federal Computer Week recaps, briefly and to the point, the involvement of an alphabet soup of Federal agencies in telehealth, and their various and not always complementary territories. Between the lines, you can read a certain doubtfulness about the FCC’s invention of ‘e-care’. As
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