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Strategies to Reduce the Healthcare Cost Curve

Howard Deichen, MBA, Executive Vice President,  MedAssets explores  the future of healthcare  and strategies  that will successfully bend the healthcare [MORE]

Medicare Readmissions

Just like passing the baton in a team relay race, hospital discharges to the patient’s home can be tricky [MORE]

Half-Million $ Grants for Remote Monitoring

The Center for Technology & Aging, a not-for-profit organization in Oakland, CA, has a RFP for remote monitoring of [MORE]

myHalo Fall Monitor

Subscription-based medial e-monitoring has been around since at least 1974 when Dr. Andrew Dibner founded Lifeline-using a wearable pendant that [MORE]

Motion Analysis - the “New Vital Sign”

For roughly 20% of elderly people who fall and sustain a hip fracture, death occurs within a year. But with [MORE]

Using Technology to Connect Acute Care and Community Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes for Older Americans

This presentation by the Executive Vice President of MedAssets focuses on the costs of care for chronic illness in older [MORE]

My Home Is Smarter Than Your Phone

The Department of Signal Theory, Computer Networks and Communications at the University of Granada has created a smart apartment, with [MORE]

Eldercare Costs Rising

Apropos to this year’s Medical Automation International Conference, a recent report presents cost figures for eldercare between 1996 and 2006.  [MORE]

Europe’s big picture on health

“The Age Wave”-people born in the wake of World War II around the world-has been a predictable phenomenon since the [MORE]

Sensor Embedded Clothing

Hospitals are unhealthy place, by virtue of being filled with sick and vulnerable patients.  Not only is a short length [MORE]

Qualcomm-Verizon Mobile Healthcare Joint Venture

Qualcomm and Verizon, both giants in their respective communications fields, recently announced a joint venture for automated machine-to-machine data transmission.  [MORE]

Growth of Wireless Telehealth

Even without insurance reimbursement, analysts estimate that by 2012 some 15 million mobile and wireless healthcare devices will be in [MORE]

Up-Scale: Body Monitor

Tanita, a manufacturer of several sophisticated “scales,” has a model called “the BC-1000 Body Composition Monitor” (costs $359) that measures [MORE]

MC Square Memory-Enhancing Device

MC Square, a sound and light device that’s worn to relieve stress, has been modified to stimulate specific brain waves [MORE]

Pain Management Guidelines

CMS released, on April 10, new standards for pain management in elderly patients that nursing homes and assisted living facilities [MORE]

Motion Monitoring Dementia

Researchers at the University of South Florida are using a real time location system to test movement monitoring as an [MORE]

Bedsores on the Rise

In the wake of Medicare’s new rule that it will no longer reimburse hospitals for patients’ pressure ulcers acquired during [MORE]

Three New Texts on Medical Automation

Systems Engineering Approaches to Medical Automation, Robin Felder and Majd Alwan, Editors (ISBN 978-1-59693-164-0, from Artechhouse.com, 2009);
LifeScience Automation Fundamentals and [MORE]

Eldercare Data

The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging is a project funded through the National Institute on Aging.  It acquires [MORE]

Nursing Home Evictions

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