Continua Alliance member Matsushita Electric Industrial Co is rebranding as Panasonic Corp. The 90-year-old company markets under three brands – Matsushita, National and Panasonic. According to a survey by the consultancy Interbrand, Panasonic has the highest global profile. (Souce: Smartbrief.com)
US Lifeline System telecare alarm systems are offered free to eligible older people in Taipei. Story from Taipei Times.
Looking forward to Med-e-Tel next April? Perhaps you should be given the wide range of topics that are going to be covered: Ageing services [i.e. services for people who are getting older, not services that are ageing. I think]; bio-informatics… Read moreMed-e-Tel call for papers opens
Medical Intelligence, which produces the Columba GPS bracelet and the Urgentys device for lone workers, has posted a
German e-health specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has been selected by US health network Coventry Health Care to provide the infrastructure for a home monitoring programme. Full story from E-Health Europe.
Long overdue, my posting of a link to the interesting range of presentations at the eHealth 2008 conference “eHealth Without Frontiers” in Slovenia, in May. From HealthTech Wire. Note, two pages of links.
The Vena platform is “a low cost single chip communication solution for health devices, with the capability to deliver both wired (USB) and wireless (Bluetooth) connectivity to health devices.” Paul Williamson, Head of Wireless Medical at Cambridge Consultants, said “Vena… Read moreCambridge Consultants brings its Vena platform to the Continua Health Alliance
Someone ‘gets’ it. Interesting that it is someone in the telecoms and not the telecare industry: The ‘business case’ for Fibre-to-the-Home networks is no longer based solely on the commercial returns from Internet access and other communication services. Important services… Read moreThe future place for telecare and telehealth
The international community of people interested in telehealth and telecare welcomes the foundation of the Australian Telehealth Society. Link to its website. Link to its inaugural newsletter where you will find information about early adopters of remote patient monitoring in… Read moreAustralian Teleheath Society founded
The Silver Life Institute, based in Paris, is a research organisation that aims (amongst other things) to: encourage consideration of ideas and questions in relation to society and old age diffuse knowledge from research into technology, economics, medical and social… Read moreFrench Silver Life Institute branch in UK
