Cloud-Based Remote Monitoring
March 20, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
While every teenager seems to hanker for the latest smart phone, millions of elders just want a simple phone-the old landline, for example. But elders are those who stand to benefit the most from distance monitoring and automatic alerts that telemedicine offers. To meet this need, Independa, Inc. (San Diego, CA) is now offering “Health Measures,” which relies on any kind of phone to gather data on weight, blood pressure, glucose, temperature, and pulse and transmit that information to a care provider via “Cloud Care.” The provider-hospital, physician, family member-can then act if serious conditions arise for elders living in their own homes. Real independence would be in doing the data collection passively. MORE