By Audrey Kinsella The mobile personal emergency response system from GreatCall, “5Star Urgent Response™,” is now available through Independa, the companies announced earlier this month. Through a combination of mobile and GPS technologies, elderly clients can not only live safely at home but can continue to perform their day-to-day activiites away from wireline phones and […]
One thoughtless moment, one normally careful driver, one urgent text message, one quick reply…at 65 miles per hour. Car crash to lawsuit to bankruptcy, not for the driver but for his employer. Yes, there was a policy but it wasn’t enough. If only there were some technology to keep employees from texting while driving. We finally found one.
A San Francisco-based startup, LifeNexus, Inc., has received a U.S. patent for its iChip™ and Personal Health Card®, introduced in February at HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas. There have been wallet-size cards introduced before with personal health information stored on a magnetic strip, but this one is a little different. One’s health data is encoded onto […]
by Audrey KinsellaAt last month’s Partners Healthcare-sponsored conference [in October 2011], “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” new models of home care dominated the high-level discussions. Examples of what could be dubbed “anywhere care,” provided for people requiring regular care to manage chronic conditions, are not home healthcare […]
by Audrey Kinsella Jonathan Schwartz is a former President and CEO of Sun MicroSystems. Kian Saneii is a computer engineer from San Diego. Though not acquainted with each other, both are members of The Sandwich Generation, people with busy careers, children to raise and elderly parents to worry about. Both responded independently to the triple […]
by Audrey KinsellaThe recently concluded “2011 Connected Health Symposium,” presented by Partners Healthcare’s “Center for Connected Health,” showcased new healthcare service delivery technologies that will certainly affect all healthcare segments, including home healthcare providers and consumers.The two-day conference, titled “Driving Quality Up and Costs Down: New Technologies for an Era of Accountability,” took place last […]
ContinuLink Introduces Patient Portal for Physicians and Families Unlike the two patient portals profiled elsewhere in this issue [HCTR, 2/28/2012], Boca Raton-based ContinuLink makes its online product and related services available to its home care provider customers so that they can, in turn, use it to assist patient families. Available since 2006, it is a […]
by Audrey Kinsella Saturing (Merrillville, IN) is a family portal for adult children and their elderly parents to assist with and track elderly individuals’ daily routines and participate in their health needs. It began operations in 2008, and joins the ranks of other family-oriented online portals profiled in our March 28 issue (1504, 1505). Like […]
Product review by Audrey Kinsella This week, we profile another entry in our series on the rise of online tools for adult children to track daily activities of elderly parents living independently in their own homes. Using a combination of Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS), wireless motion detectors and other sensors, SimplyHome (Asheville, NC) […]
by Audrey Kinsella Personal Health Informatics Mull over that one. Not sure quite was it is? It is the field that targets ongoing personal healthcare needs and develops “wellness” technologies for individuals, not to be confused with patients. It is focused not on people with diseases but on health management information and tools that people […]
