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Television-Based Health Education Tools Help Hospital Patients Learn About Their Condition
Video-based technologies that allow patients to access medical information.
Real Time Control Of Wheelchair With Brain Waves
Recently technological developments in the area of brain machine interface (BMI) have received much attention. Such systems allow elderly or handicapped people to interact with the world through signals from their brains, without having to give voice commands.
How useful is a ‘PERS’ compared to a cell phone?
So let's say you live in an isolated location, leave the house to go out to a garage or walk the dog, how useful is a PERS (Personal Emergency Response System) pendant or watch?
Future Tech Watch: ‘Minding’ Your Home
Light switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing of the past thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology being developed in Europe that lets users perform everyday tasks with thoughts alone.
ATI to Present its Wireless Wide Area Network Cellular Option at the ATA Annual Meeting
Cellular Telecommunications Network Technology Offers a New Way to Connect Patients to Providers with American TeleCare's Telehealth Solutions.
Age-in-Place Tech Down Under
Graeme Philipson writing for the Sydney Morning Herald discusses how the growth of smart home technologies, falling costs and rising aging population is benefiting both…
Telehealth for diabetes promotes aging at home, not in the hospital
"Telemonitoring may be one of the most effective and cost effective ways of helping individuals avoid constant visits to their doctor's office or hospitalization."
Photo by Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
NY Times Looks at Aging in Place Technologies
Thanks to one of our readers - "Chazzy" - we learned about this article "Sensors Help Keep the Elderly at Home" that ran in the…