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.
The Columba bracelet automatically detects any departure from a previously defined security zone. At the slightest straying from this area, it alerts AXA Assistance’s medical assistance centre which can precisely geolocate the bracelet and speak with the wearer through the bracelet’s “handsfree” feature.
San Francisco Chronicle published two interesting articles this week on:
7000 Alarm systems on Medicaid in New York. A snippet that indicates systems being further embedded in mainstream care.
Information on Malta’s telecare (alarm service) for which people become eligible at 80, or yonger with certain conditions. Click here to see their site.
Implementation of a teleassistance device for elderly people, children with cognitive disabilities and disabled people (based on GPS + GPRS)
Differences in the cultural context of telecare between the US and the UK.
Mental health consultations by video link in New Mexico.
Pasteur Mediavita will be targeting doctors’ and pharmacists’ associations, decision-makers in government.