Howard Deichen, MBA, Executive Vice President, MedAssets explores the future of healthcare and strategies that will successfully bend the healthcare [MORE]
Just like passing the baton in a team relay race, hospital discharges to the patient’s home can be tricky [MORE]
The Center for Technology & Aging, a not-for-profit organization in Oakland, CA, has a RFP for remote monitoring of [MORE]
iPhone Fall Alert -myHalo
Subscription-based medial e-monitoring has been around since at least 1974 when Dr. Andrew Dibner founded Lifeline-using a [MORE]
Senors to Detect Walking Patterns
For roughly 20% of elderly people who fall and sustain a hip fracture, death occurs within [MORE]
This presentation by the Executive Vice President of MedAssets focuses on the costs of care for chronic illness in older [MORE]
The Department of Signal Theory, Computer Networks and Communications at the University of Granada has created a smart apartment, with [MORE]
Apropos to this year’s Medical Automation International Conference, a recent report presents cost figures for eldercare between 1996 and 2006. [MORE]
“The Age Wave”-people born in the wake of World War II around the world-has been a predictable phenomenon since the [MORE]
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Hospitals are unhealthy place, by virtue of being filled with sick and vulnerable patients. Not only is [MORE]
Qualcomm and Verizon, both giants in their respective communications fields, recently announced a joint venture for automated machine-to-machine data transmission. [MORE]
Even without insurance reimbursement, analysts estimate that by 2012 some 15 million mobile and wireless healthcare devices will be in [MORE]
Tanita, a manufacturer of several sophisticated “scales,” has a model called “the BC-1000 Body Composition Monitor” (costs $359) that measures [MORE]
MC Square Device
MC Square, a sound and light device that’s worn to relieve stress, has been modified to stimulate specific [MORE]