Today’s Harvard Business Review blog features the S5 cell phone developed by Munoth Communications of Chennai It’s designed to be simple yet the features are a wish list of both safety features and basic telehealth most useful to older adults. Here’s an… Read more'Simple' phone aids senior safety in India

Alan Cohen, Medical Practice Director of LogicPD design and engineering, recently published an article which is a useful and simplified overview on what telemonitoring systems are all about.  It contains some nifty charts and diagrams that can come in handy when… Read moreHome health telemonitoring overview

Another rollout from ‘healthcare reform’ is $68 million in grant money from the Affordable Care Act, parceled out to all states, territories and 125 tribal organizations, to help seniors, the disabled and their caregivers better understand and navigate their options… Read moreHHS announces $68 million in senior/disabled 'navigation'

Last week’s ‘National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice’ in Washington, D.C. included a panelist, Andrew Narva, M.D. of NIH, discussing his work in telehealth for monitoring both kidney disease and diabetes in the American Indian community.  This group suffers from these diseases reportedly at a rate three times the general population.