"virtual care" articles

International research firm Parks Associates announced four free newsletters , distributed online to inform industry executives on developments in home networking, digital health, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband services, wireless connectivity, and home systems. Parks Associates’ industry analysts, with over 20 years experience studying advanced technology markets, produce these newsletters on a monthly basis to provide analysis on industry topics and...

GE made an unspecified amount of investment in New York-based QuietCare Systems in early October, 2008. At the same time, the two companies announced a technology collaboration and co-marketing arrangement. During the last two weeks, I have managed to locate executives from the two companies and here is what I learned. -GE Healthcare will help market Quietcare’s Living Independently product line and services under the brand “Quietcare by GE Healthcare.” David Stern,...

After my Monday morning panel at Partners Health Care’s Connected Care Symposium conference, I attended a few others. The PHR panel involved the three major ePHR vendors, Microsoft, Google, Dossia, and the fourth was the health information Web giant WebMD. The exchange between Grad Conn from HealthVault (the Microsoft initiative) and Jerry Lin, product manager of Google Health, was quite amusing when the moderator pushed for an answer to whether the two companies will allow users to...

Advertised to launch on May 19th, the Wii Fit was released across the nation on May 21st. This left some fans upset since only the Nintendo World store in New York debuted the game on the 19th. Designed to be a way to get people off the couch and moving, the Wii Fit tracks your weight, body mass index (BMI), and activity on a calendar with the goal of encouraging frequent exercise. If you don’t return in daily, it very kindly reminds you in a manner reminiscent of my parents that your...