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
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Rise of the mobile/cell phone for telehealth
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
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Age of the caring robot (Australia)
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
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buddi GPS tracker (UK)
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
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Dyna-Vision iPhone telemedicine application for heart problems
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
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Location-alerting injection pens for diabetics
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
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Israeli EarlySense 'EverOn' system presented at the European Respiratory Society
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
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Will remote chronic heart failure monitoring become less dependent on weighing scales?
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.
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Johns Hopkins University working on telehealth devices
“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
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Verify & Locate (UK)
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
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