Archive for the ‘Ambient assisted living and homecare products’ Category
Sunday, February 10th, 2013
[caption id="attachment_30193" align="alignleft" width="315"] The Smart Salon panel debates patient architecture. Eric Freitag from Smart Design is seated second from right.[/caption]
Can We Design a Better Patient? was the catchy title of a Smart Salon event held at the Royal College of Art in London on 29 January 2013. Headed by ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2012
The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Forum 2012 will take place 24 to 27 September 2012 in the Evoluon in Eindhoven, Netherlands, presenting attendees the opportunity to provide and receive essential information, inspiration, imagination, interaction and innovation in the AAL arena. The AAL Forum is the annual platform for the increasing ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
E-textile technology has spawned a t-shirt that noninvasively monitors a patient's vital signs and accurately tracks his or her location inside a hospital or other building. It can even tell if the patient is seated, reclining or moving about. Designed for use in hospitals, the device also has potential for ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Avery Dennison Medical Solutions, which specialises in pressure-sensitive technologies, has teamed up with mobile device developer Proteus Biomedical to market patch-based wearable sensors for ambient assisted living and other applications.
Proteus has developed a personal device that incorporates multiple sensors to monitor important physiologic parameters of interest to consumers and clinicians, ...
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
The pond, not to mention the e-health digital divide, may have just gotten a little smaller. Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes and US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius have signed a Memorandum of Understanding involving the interoperability of electronic health records and the promotion of ...
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010
The University of Warwick and the National Health Service (NHS) West Midlands have joined forces to create the Institute of Digital Healthcare. A five-year programme based in the new International Digital Laboratory, the Institute aims to apply innovative digital solutions to a range of healthcare scenarios. Warwick Manufacturing Group, Warwick ...
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is what everyone seems to be talking about these days. And considering the demographic changes in Europe, everyone should be aware of AAL technologies. With an ageing population, it becomes ever more important to develop technologies that improve the quality of life of the elderly. One ...
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Last week, delegates from the world's leading micro- and nanotechnology regions convened at the 16th World Micromachine Summit in Dortmund, Germany. The last day of the summit focussed on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and started with a presentation by Hartmut Strese of the VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (Berlin, Germany) ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
"Mobility Through Mechatronics” is the title of a competition just announced by Mechatronic Karlsruhe in Germany that is designed to showcase product ideas and demonstrate the benefits of mechatronics for human mobility such as in the field of rehabilitation. The Mechatronic Karlsruhe Award competition, under the direction of Professor Michael ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
MedilinkWM is reinforcing its position and activities in the assisted living sector. The new name for its division dedicated to this sector is Alvolution (previously i-Health). The name has been created to reflect the organisation's role and position in stimulating the next stage in the evolution of technological advances for ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Who's got your back? In a few years, it might be your house. Researchers from Intel and GE Healthcare are developing a so-called Health House fitted with sensor arrays to track the occupants' habits, check vital signs and predict whether they are at risk of a fall. If a sensor ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
In a little more than 20 years, one-third of Europe's population will be older than 65. There will be more than 22 million senior citizens, and none of them will want to go to the hospital or take up residency in an assisted living facility. That represents a huge opportunity ...
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