“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… Read moreECCH as in 'blecch' (N. Ireland)
‘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.]
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.
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… Read moreNextAlarm: patent for two-way voice over internet (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,… Read moreVisonic to expand its PERS [telecare] range? (US)
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… Read moreEveron combines GPS safer walking with nurse call system (UK)
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… Read moreMobile Monday Belfast–catch it on 14 June
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… Read moreAgeTek appoints first CEO and incorporates
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… Read moreHealthcare CIOs reluctant to go mobile: Gartner
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… Read moreFDA, HHS, FCC, VA and telehealth–two reviews
