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GrandCare adds streaming music…Coro Health’s MusicFirst, which can be customized for the individual’s taste in entertainment and to influence mood, is being added to GrandCare’s Trillium and HomeBase monitoring and socialization system. Music to lift mood, soothe and calm particularly… Read moreTelecare briefs: mood music, securing data…and not
David McCullough, Chief Executive of the WRVS (formerly the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service) is reported as having a pop at telecare (or is it telehealth?) services for increasing social isolation because they help keep people at home. Assuming he’s not… Read moreOnline services 'isolating' elderly people (UK)
Mark Ayton, managing director of Honeywell HomMed UK, describes his view of the potential opportunities for telehealth home health monitoring in the Healthcare Equipment & Supplies (HES) Magazine: Will GPs take telehealth into the mainstream?
Burnside Telecom has combined cloud based technology with mobile phones and launched a new app, Monicare, aimed at care homes and local authorities. Burnside’s main proposition is that cellular/GSM/private networks are a viable alternative to traditional landlines and the introduction… Read moreBurnside Telecom: Monitor care equipment from your mobile phone (UK)
Rather belated notice of this (sorry) but the latest Telecare LIN newsletter, for October, has been published. (PDF download) The contents cover:Section 1: November 2011 – an important month for telecare and telehealth – Page 3 [includes useful pointers for… Read moreTelecare LIN October newsletter published (UK)
The King’s Fund-managed Whole System Demonstrator Action Network (WSDAN) website will close down on 18 November 2011. After that date visitors will be redirected to the King’s Fund website’s new telehealth and telecare area. It will be there that the… Read moreGoodbye WSDAN, hello King's Fund Telehealth and Telecare section (UK)
A much more exhaustive list of conferences and other events than we have the time or inclination to maintain can be found on the Wireless Health Strategies website, here. The list covers “wireless health, mHealth, telemedicine, healthcare IT, health informatics,… Read moreList of 'global health innovation' events
Eds. Donna and Steve have covered various initiatives out of MIT in both healthcare technology and thinking about the needs of older adults. Now the Media Lab has a bevy of healthcare initiatives–New Media Medicine–which are presented on one descriptive… Read moreMIT's New Media Medicine
But remaining well away from Seventh Avenue*. A new unit, AT&T Emerging Devices, will be selling clothes that track the wearer’s heart rate, body temperature and other vital signs, then upload the results to a web portal. Not only that, but… Read moreAT&T in the garment business
CJPS, which combines healthcare consulting and contract manufacturing with marketing a telehealth monitoring hub and connecting devices called VitalPoint [TA 10 Feb], is vigorously announcing in a release that in an ‘unprecedented move’, it has dropped ‘connectivity fees for caregivers… Read moreDoes this 'shake the world of telemedicine'?
