In August last year we pointed out Google’s toe-curlingly condescending approach to older people and video chat. Later, in December, they decided to do the same for ‘parents’. Google Launches Site for Teaching Tech to Your Parents (Google blog). The… Read moreGoogle continues to patronise older people
Pity the poor civil servant tasked with writing a speech for the Secretary of State for Health to deliver at the HC2011 informatics conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. Somehow you have to say something positive about health AND relate it… Read moreAndrew Lansley says telehealth will transform NHS
In less than two years Dale Potter, senior vice president and CIO at The Ottawa Hospital has weaned staff off compiling patient files by using paper printouts to accessing their records using iPads. How? See mHealth: What happened in IS?… Read moreHospital records: paper to electronic access in less than two years (Canada)
iRx Reminder is taking a different approach to most mhealth developers, aiming its app – at least initially – at researchers to conduct medication or behavioral intervention studies with chronic disease patients. Despite the company’s name, iRx Reminder’s technology does… Read moremHealth app developer iRx Reminder looks for foothold in research market
Three general items that may interest Telecare Aware readers: Overturning some preconceptions: Worried about old age? Good (Montreal Gazette) New research on risk of developing Alzheimer’s: New discovery in fight against Alzheimer’s (Wales Online) And if life becomes intolerable? Woman… Read moreOld age, dementia and euthanasia
The positives and negatives of ageing are to be examined in a new £3M, five-year study, looking at health and well-being, including changes in factors that could promote ‘healthy ageing’. The project, led by Professor Bob Woods from Bangor University’s… Read moreMajor new survey into health, wellbeing and ageing (Wales)
Congratulations to new contributing editor Pedro Brandão for getting the Telecare Aware News Network Portugal site off to a flying start with several posts! (Don’t read Portuguese? Use the ‘To read this site in another language, click here’ link to… Read moreTANN: Portugal goes live
We don’t normally publish “we have a new customer” news (see Policies), but given the large monitoring company Invicta’s recent switch of monitoring technology supplier to Novalarm, the acquisition of a significant customer in the housing market (the Guinness Partnership,… Read moreInvicta and Guinness Partnership contract (UK)
Research2Guidance continues its series of interesting blog items with a piece entitled mHealth market: Sensor-based mobile apps show how mHealth business models could work. It explores business models whereby mobile apps are given away as a means of promoting sales… Read moreHow mHealth business models could work
Can you help either of the following two Telecare Aware readers? Do you know of any interesting telecare or telehealth services in Paris or Istanbul? Jennene Buckley, CEO of Feros Care (community care/telehealth/telecare provider in Australia) will be visiting those… Read moreReaders' requests
