The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) has published in the OJEU an advert calling for tenders for the provision of telecare/telehealth equipment and relevant installation, response and maintenance services.
Not quite telecare but a good illustration of cooperation between services implementing new technology.
One service lets users check when an electric kettle is used. Data from a wireless transmitter attached to the bottom of the kettle is sent in an e-mail to the elderly person’s son or daughter and the company’s Web site.
Malta’s telecare service moves to new one-stop shop.
Recent posting of some 2002 statistics.
LLC, a provider of medication reminder products in the US, has recently added a medical alarm with no monthly fees to its HIProtector fall prevention product line.
Pensioners are hoping grey power will force decision- makers to give elderly people a better deal. The Lewisham Pensioners’ Forum has published its first-ever Pensioners’ Manifesto, which sets out a list of proposals designed to improve the lives of older people.
Partners HealthCare has placed American TeleCare Monitoring Stations in hundreds of homes and cut hospital re-admissions for its heart-failure patients by 33 percent.
Dementia-care oriented system. Press release.
Intelligent cards that enable visually impaired people to customise computers and ATMs automatically have been unveiled.