Facial recognition technology shows its potential Car manufacturer Volvo is investing in Australian company Seeing Machines with a view to including its facial recognition system into cars to alert drivers when their eye and facial movements are showing signs of… Read morePointers to the future
Out now, CSIP’s December Telecare Newsletter contains useful analysis of the implications for UK telecare providers of the Putting People First Concordat, and a link to information about the £520m Social Care Reform Grant. Newsletter (pdf version) Newsletter index page… Read moreCSIP's December Telecare Newsletter
The consumer electronics giant LG has announced a three-year project, starting next month, in association with the University of Alberta and costing CAN$4 million. The proposed cellphone-based device will use ‘new sensing technology to allow patients to send their physiological… Read moreLG and mobile phone vital signs monitoring
Procura provides a fully integrated clinical and back office solution for healthcare. “Collaborating with Honeywell HomMed will further the case for increased care in the home,” said Warren Brown, CEO of Procura. Press release.
The universities of Ulster, Bath and Sheffield will collaborate with Philips and BT to share expertise in telecare research, body worn sensors and telemonitoring technologies. The SMART2 project follows SMART1, which showed how technology could help home rehabilitation for post-stroke… Read moreUK universities in SMART2 project
Further to the item De Montfort University Leicester (UK) ‘invents mobile telecare’, Nov 7, the university announces a new project, to look at the potential role of fuzzy logic in helping analyse monitoring data. BJHC&IM report.
At last I’ve discovered some snippets of information about one of the WSD project sites: Cornwall’s plan is revealed in two newsletters apparently aimed at GP practices and now published on the council’s website. Regular readers of Telecare Aware will… Read moreCornwall's Whole System Demonstrator project revealed
I suppose I should be cheering the announcement in Putting People First, which is a ‘shared ambition’ report – sorry, concordat – authored by ‘Ministers, local government, NHS, social care, professional and regulatory organisations’ and published by the Department of… Read moreIndividualised budgets expansion announced (UK)
Steve Spurrier, from the North Worcestershire Care and Repair Agency, teamed up with Accessible Homes to develop the flat-pack pod, a new way of providing care for disabled people who require an extension to their home. The pod, which can… Read moreTelecare showflat gets innovative extension
Invicta Telecare, the largest independent provider of telecare services in the UK, has passed the Telecare Services Association’s (TSA) stringent audit for the sixth year in a row. The TSA Code encourages the provision of good quality customer service by… Read moreSix in a row for Invicta Telecare
