Tunstall today launched a new version of its Lifeline hub. New features include: A softer, rounder, look Less in-your-face branding An integral ambient temperature sensor Automated regular pendant test reminder A 75% more efficient power adaptor Improved battery back up
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Laurie Orlov of Aging in Place Technology Watch is the author of a new, large N study surveying 315 home care managers responsible for 34,509 workers in home care and geriatric care management. Findings: the present of home care and
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Care Innovations, the two-year-old Intel and GE joint venture to develop and market home health/senior care/assistive technology products, officially announced today its full realignment along senior living and care coordination, plus some staff consolidation. The refocusing means that the two Care Innovations business units--disease/care coordination and senior independent living, which divided the retooled telehealth/education Guide and wellness/socialization Connect from sensor-based telecare pioneer QuietCare and a recently added Link PERS, are being consolidated. Left out in the cold and unofficially for sale is the Intel Reader, which is targeted to the AT (low vision) and education markets. CEO Louis Burns' comments to Mobihealthnews' Neil Versel tiptoe around the extent of staff reductions, but industry sources had indicated to Editor Donna for some weeks that the Oregon and New York (QuietCare) offices are in the process of shuttering, with the greatest impact on the experienced QuietCare unit. All US operations will be at the California HQ. (No mention of the status of UK and Australia offices) Care Innovations' new position and rationale is contained in their 'doubling down' official statement.

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Our readers with interest in how Alere’s partnership with WellDoc/AT&T ForHealth for diabetes management and education is being positioned should review this article from Bloomberg. It is glowingly favorable with plenty of testimonials, and stresses the role of education and
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With the concern that naïve service commissioners are being mesmerised into poor purchasing decisions by the claims of massive savings by telecare and telehealth suppliers, it is a breath of fresh air that consultant Valerie Iles of Really Learning is
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Unfortunately, the post Terminology: ‘telecare’ v ‘assistive technology’ last week came too late to stop Tunstall from hijacking the term ‘assistive technology’ to make it mean ‘telecare and telehealth’ in a publication it has sponsored for the Chartered Institute of
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International diagnosis, monitoring and health management combine Alere, which is partnering with WellDoc/AT&T ForHealth [TA 10 Aug], last month purchased remote telehealth monitoring developer MedApps of Scottsdale, Arizona. The news is not yet announced through the usual channels but confirmed
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The article links on the right hand side of the following item give an indication of the kind of newspaper the UK’s Daily Mail is, and yet it has managed to publish one of the most balanced article on telehealth
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