In 2007 Supra UK started a national key safe installation service to support local authority and service provider clients. Now they have responded to requests to install more items and types of telecare equipment by launching at TSA2011 a new… Read moreNew service from Supra UK
Pellonia – the software that runs Alertacall’s safety confirmation system – has just been updated to enable third parties to “develop their own Safety Confirmation devices and making it straightforward for developers to integrate Pellonia functionality within their own software.”… Read morePellonia gets super-interoperability as standard (UK)
Ed. Donna isn’t surprised at the explosive CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 70% either, given a rise in population wealth and connectedness–and facing two intractable problems: 1) a rapidly aging and 2) a dispersed population. China will dwarf all… Read morePwC: Asia-Pacific mHealth market at $7 billion by 2017
For several weeks now someone (he’s only doing his job, so I will not name him) from the PR company [hurts-your-eyes site alert] used by Cirrus and CarelineUK has been prodding me by email to make a news story of… Read moreCirrus, CarelineUK and the Northern Housing Consortium (UK)
Today’s mashup of items: Smartest shirt of all? Under Armour, a major manufacturer of high-end athletic wear, is introducing the E39 shirt which via the ‘Bug’ (a wireless transmitter/hard drive) can sense heart rate, respiration, accelerometry (g forces) and skin… Read moreYour Tuesday mashup: smart shirts, smarter apps
It’s interesting to see the different tacks the two wireless leaders in the US are taking with healthcare. Only three days ago we reported on the latest of AT&T’s moves in healthcare, the creation of ‘Digital Life Services’ under their Emerging Devices unit. We’ve heard less from Verizon overall, but that may be changing with this not terribly well-reported move…
The Carephone is a company that has been ‘soft launching’ in the UK during the past month. It has no connection with Bosch’s Carephone or other venture of a similar name, but the company is an extension of one that has deep roots in a niche part of the UK’s mobile phone industry. It shouldn’t be surprising, therefore – but it somehow is – that the quality of the build of their first mobile phone offering for the telecare market is top-notch.
The mobile has all the features you would expect of a specially designed phone – clear screen, large buttons, emergency alert button, GPS tracking capability, etc. – but it also has a waterproof remote pendant and a feature that answers the critics of mobile phones for older people – that they are useless because the users forget to charge them. Even when the user cannot make more calls because it is powered off or the battery needs charging, it still retains enough charge to make a call to the company’s response centre.
The 10th Med-e-Tel conference will be held in Luxembourg on 18-20 April 2012. The call for abstract submissions is out – deadline 16th December. Details here.
New Zealand’s health authorities recently announced a health innovation hub to help grow the health technology sector. Chiptech, the design and build electronics company based in Christchurch, recently concluded a pilot study, with partners, to determine the acceptability and effectiveness… Read moreChiptech advancing telecare and telehealth initiatives (New Zealand)
Following their exhibition at TSA2011, UK-based Jontek has reinforced the message that many telecare functions can now go mobile. It has software (m-Care) that allows allows emergency alarm calls to be made from any 3G phone to Jontek’s call centre… Read moreJontek, mCare and Florence (UK)
