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. >>> Read more . . .

"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.

Dayton, OH (PRWEB) August 26, 2010 >>> Read more . . .

The murky world of M-Health, growing to $1.3 billion next year, driven by smart phones.
 

* Philips has made anchor investment in healthcare technology fund Gilde Healthcare III, which has a target size of EUR 200 million (USD 250 million).

* Investment will complement Philips’ existing innovation efforts in healthcare. >>> Read more . . .

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. >>> Read more . . .

Washington Post special coverage of the multiple facets of the future aging boom.
 

According to Manhattan Associates, 9 million US adults e-mailed their physicians in 2009 and online consultations are now endorsed by the AMA.

GE-Intel Joint venture: transcends the past, picks up the pace.  In the wake of endless studies about the benefits of telehealth and in-home monitoring, finally Intel and GE decided to transcend the good works and research phases and form a new joint-venture company. The progression has been slow and steady: GE resells QuietCare, buys Living Independently Group, partners for distribution with DirectSupply, and in April invests $3 million in Ireland's Tril Centre's research for independent living -- already recipient of a sizable Intel investment. But the organizational shifting and fits-and-starts hampered QuietCare and in the meantime, interesting startups emerged who out-innovate and under-price. Meanwhile, over at Intel, years of effort and research, propelled by champion-in-chief Eric Dishman, culminated in only a few actual products for independent living -- Intel Health Guide and the Intel Reader. So a joint venture company offers a chance to capitalize on what both organizations have done and learned, but also to get moving. It couldn't happen soon enough or at a better time.  >>> Read more . . .

Company to Focus on Telehealth and Independent Living in Effort to Tackle Increasing Global Burden of Chronic Disease and Age-Related Conditions

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