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NewsContinua-CABA partnership pushes connected home agenda
Continua Health Alliance, an organization of 240-plus technology companies that are developing personal connected health solutions, has struck a "liaison agreement" with the Continental Automated Read more...
New iPad app tracks mobility among seniors
Mobility may be easily understood as a health indicator for the elderly. Generally, the more you move, the healthier you are. But figuring out how mobile a patient is isn't nearly as easy. Two Wake Read more...
Most people with chronic disease want remote monitoring
More than three-fifths of Americans living with at least one chronic disease believe that a home medical device to manage their conditions could improve their health, according to a survey Read more...
Funding m-health via 'alpha daughters'
Patient-centered care is one thing. Now how about designing a business model not necessarily around the patient, but around the family caregiver? In this case, call her the "alpha daughter," the Read more...
Video 'telecaregivers' keep seniors in their homes longer
Cell phones are ubiquitous. Plenty of American homes have high-speed Internet and wireless networks. And the population is aging. Take those factors together and it's no surprise that home patient Read more...
Pushback against home monitoring devices
There was bound to be a downside to the wider acceptance of wireless remote monitoring technologies. Sure, some devices can give aging patients the freedom to live independently, but they also can Read more...
UK project to develop wireless sensors for 'smart' homes for elderly
Money just continues to flow into R&D for home health monitoring technologies. A team at the University of Portsmouth, England, has received a grant of 128,000 pounds ($184,000) to develop Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: GE invests in home-health technology research
GE Healthcare is giving $3 million to an Irish research institution to help develop new technologies to facilitate independent living in aging populations. In the wake of GE's acquisition of Living Read more...
Group offers $500,000 in grants to disseminate remote monitoring technology
Monday in FierceHealthIT, we reported that the Center for Technology and Aging awarded its first set of grants to support dissemination of information technology. Now we learn that the Oakland, Read more...
Seniors get connected, take control of their health
Even elderly patients are changing long-held beliefs that doctors know best, and remote telemonitoring is the reason why, according to the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare System in Read more...
| Press ReleasesHealth Care REIT Senior Management to Attend NAREIT’s REITWorld 2011TOLEDO, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE:HCN) announced today that senior management will attend NAREIT’s REITWorld 2011 Annual Convention for All Things REIT in Dallas, Texas. Read more >> Rep. Karen Bass Joins Patients, Healthcare Workers, Other Community Health Providers to Fight Devastating “Medi-Cuts”Coalition to Launch Actions to Protect Medicare and Medi-Cal Funding LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) today joined a coalition of concerned healthcare workers from SEIU Read more >> ALFA Helps Fight Ageism with New Partnership Promoting Senior Olympics DocumentaryALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ALFA, the leading voice for professionally-managed, consumer-driven senior living communities, is partnering with the PBS documentary Age of Champions to spread the Read more >> Halo Monitoring to Exhibit Advanced Fall Detection System During Senior Helpers Conference and Vendor Expo in New OrleansGroundbreaking myHalo medical alarm helps seniors age in place safelyHUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Representatives from Halo Monitoring will participate in this year's Senior Read more >> Extend Health Survey: 15 Days After Congress Voted To Raise Debt Ceiling, Seniors’ Confidence in Medicare Rose 22%Respondents more convinced that Medicare will be there for the rest of their lives – despite their belief that cuts to Medicare are coming SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A survey of 374 seniors Read more >> |
