The title of this item is an amusing example of a small company producing a press release headline that draws attention by ‘hopping on’ to a mainstream news theme. As it happens, the company, Hop-on Inc., produces a mobile phone… Read morePresident Elect Obama Calls for Medical Info Technology – Hop-on Is Ready
It’s interesting when two stories come in at the same time, unrelated except that they are tapping into the zeitgeist. Here is an example of this phenomenon. The first item is about the use of mobile phones in telehealth around… Read moreRise of the mobile/cell phone for telehealth
Actually, for long-time Telecare Aware readers, the main story in this item will not be the robots, but the ‘Assistive Independent Systems’ in development by Tasmanian clinical psychologist Brad Freeman who is aiming to “use new internet-based communications technologies to… Read moreAge of the caring robot (Australia)
buddi is a small GPS tracker with round-the-clock emergency support. It enables: location of the wearer at any time in response to a button push conversation with the wearer location of the wearer if thought to be missing identification of… Read morebuddi GPS tracker (UK)
A new product launched by the Dutch TechMedic company and ‘adopted’ by the communications provider T-mobile, the Dyna-Vision is a “small and portable device, with the dimensions of a PDA…monitors up-to 10 clinical parameters through non-invasive sensors attached to the… Read moreDyna-Vision iPhone telemedicine application for heart problems
Allerayde, a UK company that provides products for people suffering from allergies recently won a prize in a competition for companies that make products that will make use of the Galileo satellite positioning system. It was for an ‘”auto-injector’ pen… Read moreLocation-alerting injection pens for diabetics
Results of a clinical study of EarlySense’s EverOn system conducted at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv were presented at the European Respiratory Society in Berlin on October 6. EverOn is “a continuous, contact-free, patient supervision system that measures… Read moreIsraeli EarlySense 'EverOn' system presented at the European Respiratory Society
The ‘Growth Partnership Company’ (consultancy) Frost & Sullivan, seem to think so. They have awarded Noninvasive Medical Technologies, Inc. their annual Award for Healthcare Innovation for, amongst other things, a device that measures directly the fluid status of the chest…. Read moreWill remote chronic heart failure monitoring become less dependent on weighing scales?
“The project TeleWatch Patient Monitoring System was developed to do home monitoring and disease management for high risk outpatients suffering from congestive heart failure. The Home Link system provides for communication and recording of patient’s data.” Read about all the… Read moreJohns Hopkins University working on telehealth devices
The attention of lone workers, care home managers and end users is being drawn to the advantages of the GSM and GPS person location systems from UK-based company Verify & Locate. Instead of the user being restricted to home he… Read moreVerify & Locate (UK)
