“By targeting innovations that are nearing commercialization, the Industry Innovation Competition (VAi2) provides a bridge between creative ideas in the private sector and real-world deployments that improve the services we deliver.” $80 million is available for projects across a number… Read moreVA: telehealth innovation competition
If you enjoyed our Robots in care round up and other pointer to the future items, you will want to read this 6 page item from the New York Times: Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday. ‘Nuff said?
Social enterprise Housing 21 is seeking to sell its domiciliary care division, the Complete Group. The Complete Group “provides bespoke domiciliary care packages to individuals with complex care needs, including clients that are ventilator dependent following head or spinal injuries.”… Read moreHousing 21 seeks buyer for Complete Group (UK)
According to its website, the Netherlands-based Vitaphone’s Pico is “more than a device. It is a Medication Adherence Support System (MASS)” it works with pre-packaged medication on a pouch roll to reduce the chances of making mistakes to a minimum…. Read morePico: a Medication Adherence Support System (Netherlands)
SeniorBridge was founded in 2000 to provide integrated care to people with complex medical problems and to seniors who need assistance to stay healthy at home. According to an interview with its President and CEO Dr. Erik C. Rackow, the… Read moreSeniorBridge: RPM and Skype (US)
A few weeks ago – yes, it’s been that low key we’ve not picked it up before – the Irish Government announced that it was replacing the previous ‘Scheme of Community Support for Older People’ with a simplified ‘Seniors Alert… Read moreIrish Government's new telecare scheme
Last week, in his first major speech, Andrew Lansley, the new Coalition Government’s Health Secretary said that the previous Government had put too much emphasis on ‘process targets’ to the detriment of quality healthcare. His prime example was people being… Read moreNew UK Government's emphasis on quality healthcare should benefit telehealth
It’s only with its latest press release that it has struck me [Ed. Steve] just how fond Tunstall is of TLAs*. There’s the subject of the press release, TTT; the mysterious IPC (ooops… ipc); the now rebranded RTX; the TOM,… Read moreTunstall updates training tool
Broadcasting our mood or state of mind by means of posture and other body language has been a communicative function since long before speech and the transmission of ‘information’. It is not surprising then, that technology is being used to… Read moreRemote mood tracking: When is it telecare?
