An easy-read ‘four best practices for using Twitter’ put in the context of promoting telehealth by Nirav Desai, CEO of Hands On Telehealth. A good starting point if you have not yet taken to Tweeting. There’s More to Twitter and… Read moreUsing Twitter to promote telehealth initiatives
The well-respected Housing Learning Improvement Network has produced two variants of four-page papers for senior people in housing organisations, apparently authored by housing consultant Nigel Appleton who has a long history of interest in telecare technologies. The documents offer a… Read moreHousing LIN 'Assisted Living Technology' papers for housing providers (UK)
You wonder where the ‘driver’ is. This sobering survey of 106 healthcare organizations by Mass.-based IT consulting firm Medullan found that 19% of 106 healthcare providers, insurers and other healthcare-related organizations, when asked why they were pursuing mHealth initiatives, cited… Read moreWander alert? 19% of US health organizations pursuing mHealth without a reason
One barrier to independent living for many older people and for the disabled is the potential for unattended cooking fires, the leading cause of kitchen fires in the US. Automated sensors have been developed but are not well known at… Read moreElectric stove fire alarm seeks crowdfunding
The latest iteration in Toyota’s ongoing Partner Robot program is the HSR (sounds like a car model, yes?). The Human Support Robot has many of the features of Hector, the CompanionAble robot [TA 23 Aug], including the tablet control, with… Read moreMove over 'Hector', here comes the mighty HSR robot (JP)
The charity Carers UK has followed up its March report Care and technology in the 21st century with an undated but apparently recent report Carers and Telecare. Most of the report will not interest Telecare Aware readers, but the conclusion… Read moreCarers UK: Carers and Telecare report
With the recent focus on the statistics from the Whole Systems Demonstrator (WSD) results it is easy to forget that behind each statistic is a personal story and, quite probably, an appreciative one. Editor Steve was reminded of this when… Read moreTelehealth: …and not forgetting…
Ziegler, a specialty investment bank with major interests in non-profit senior living and healthcare, regularly sounds out selected senior living organizations on financial issues through their CFO Hotline email survey. Three questions on this survey to 81 LTC were submitted… Read moreLTC survey not encouraging to telecare providers (US)
According to David Lee Scher, MD, a cardiologist who is a member of the panel developing Happtique’s certification guidelines, there are over 40,000 apps in the health, wellness and fitness category. While consumer and provider-use apps are significantly different in… Read moreThe common ground between consumer and medical apps
It appears that the US HHS is adopting the UK approach of heavy fines for small data breaches [TA 10 Aug]. $1.5 million was the cost of the HHS-Office of Civil Rights (OCR) penalty against Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary,… Read moreA very big fine for a very small data breach (US)
