NY-based PERS and call center provider American Medical Alert (AMAC), which had announced its merger with Tunstall in September, today announced their intent to settle at least two class action shareholders’ lawsuits filed in Queens County, New York City. This was… Read moreAMAC shareholders lawsuit may be settled
Two excellent, informative and thought-provoking articles in this month’s newsletter from the The Centre for Usable Home Technology (CUHTec): The Role of Technology in Improving Medication Prescription Adherance[sic] by Kevin Doughty and Accessible Digital Banking The Needs of Eighty and… Read moreMedication prescription adherence and the banking problems of 80 and 90 year-olds
At last the launch of Northern Ireland’s remote telemonitoring healthcare service. Given the track record of how slow the recuitment of people to the WSD programme and the North Yorkshire and Yorks implementations has been we are given to wondering… Read moreNorthern Ireland remote telemonitoring healthcare service launched
Here’s an item for suppliers looking at developing dedicated smartphones for the health/wellness/telecare market. It describes a system that helps configure the hardware/software mix: BlueSpec system determines circuitry and code for electronics designers from GizMag
Our space for articles about and videos of the mHealth Summit (Disclosure: Telecare Aware was a media partner of the 2011 Summit). mHealth Summit official site: Videos–US Surgeon General Benjamin keynote, HealthInterLink remote patient monitoring system demo, Day One exhibit… Read moremHealth Summit: videos, slideshows and other coverage
News announced at the mHealth Summit will be percolating through the industry over the next few weeks. One not-surprising-at-all trend is ‘connecting up’–wireless providers with telehealth devices, providers with insurers, devices with telecom platforms, platforms with funding, already integrated health… Read moreConnecting up in telehealth
mHealth Summit also confirmed a system trend for once single-minded telecare systems–the addition of telehealth and social connectedness to their behavioral monitoring to add value. You see this with GrandCare Systems (telecare+video+social) and WellAWARE Systems (telecare+vital signs). One of the… Read more…as single-purpose systems now multi-task
Importing or copying the latest ‘e-health’ technology from developed countries may not be the best way forward for health services in Africa, the attendees at the AfriHealth conference in Kenya has heard. The high-tech healthcare could come at the expense… Read moreAfrican e-health 'moving in wrong direction'
From TANN: Ireland – The European Centre for Connected Health (ECCH), established ‘to promote improvements in patient care through the use of technology, and to fast track new products and innovation in the Health and Social Care system in Northern Ireland’… Read moreECCH changes its name – to CCHSC (N. Ireland)
Sensible advice from telecare expert Guy Dewsbury, on the Telecare Blog: Choosing a telecare mobile phone.
