So if you think about an aging 'tsunami' -- doesn't it just make you think of mHealth and iPhones? Rant on. I was on a call yesterday about an upcoming 'caregiving' and technology event -- as the call proceeded, the topic turned toward low-cost mHealth applications, ubiquitious at aPrice Waterhouse tolerance level of $5 per month. [Side note -- PWC doesn't like 'mHealth', so they have renamed it 'Healthcare Unwired']. This week's Health 2.0, next month's Connected Health, not to mention eHealth, telehealth, wireless health, healthcare unbound or unwired -- now that's a tsunami. Note the $2.2 billion of new investment into biotech, medical devices and health IT -- just in the 2nd quarter of this year.
Groundbreaking Consumer Survey Reveals Important Consumer Insights on Personal Health Technologies
DALLAS, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 08/24/10 -- Almost 20% of U.S. consumers who care for an ill family member are willing to pay out-of-pocket for a home health monitoring service, almost double the number who would purchase the service for themselves, according to Parks Associates.
"Qualifications for the device companies included the ability to “demonstrate how health data can be transferred from their device, via a wired or wireless connection, to a PC, phone or directly to the cloud.”
VRI Telemonitoring will provide CareCentrix with telemonitoring, medication adherence, and medical alert systems in support of their efforts to provide comprehensive medical care at home.
Telemonitoring may help patients transition from hospital to home, reducing hospital readmissions
NYACK, NY - A clinical study is underway at Nyack Hospital to evaluate the use of telemonitoring to monitor medication adherence in discharged heart failure patients. The purpose of the study is to assess the use of cellphone-based telemonitoring to help patients transition from the inpatient to outpatient setting.
