A site about, and dedicated to, people who died alone and who were not found for some time.
Safety Systems Distribution
Speeding up early Alzheimer’s diagnosis
2 mins 33 secs. CNNs Dr. Sanjay Gupta Talks about DETECT
GE/Intel QuietCare video
2 mins 36 seconds. Title: GE/Intel: A commitment to the future of home healthcare
Excellent, non hyped-up, explanation of how telecare should, and can, work. In this case in an assisted living setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1N0RRUTMXs
The human star of the video is ex-school teacher Honor Hacker who has featured in a number of pro-technology articles, and spoke last year at a briefing of the US Senate’s Special Committee on Aging. It’s good to see she is still going strong. Here are a few of her stories from previous years:
Technology helps seniors live independently. Minnesota Public Radio, December 2005
Silent Guardians. Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St Paul, February 2007
Capitol Hill Briefing Features Technologies That Could Transform the Lives of Seniors. American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, January 2008
Plug-in wireless glucose monitoring
4 minutes. Title: MedApps Telehealth/Telemedicine Mobile Solution
What I like about this is that once the devices are connected, the user doesn’t have to press any buttons.
Also has brief overview of the HealthCom monitoring interface.
Thanks to Bob Pyke
Aging In Place Technology Watch
Laurie Orlov’s Aging In Place Technology Watch blog: http://www.ageinplacetech.com/
Six Steps to Telecare Press Release Happiness
Part 1: Three basic mistakes and how to avoid them
First mistake: It’s not about you
Time after time I see companies and organisations falling into the trap of thinking that the press release is about them.
This is only true if it is a stock market-orientated press release reporting your company’s performance. Even then you may be missing an opportunity or two. Yes, it is your press release, but the cold reality is that unless you are in the Intel/Sony/Microsoft league no one cares about what your company is up to…
Part 2: The language of robots! Avoid alienating your readers
When it is humans who read press releases why does it seem that so many are written to be read by robots? (And I’m not talking web bots, here!)
In the first part of this series I touched on your potential audiences, although before writing you would do well to sit down with colleagues and roughly flesh out the answers to…
Part 3: Specific advice for frontline telecare/telehealth services
The first two parts of this series have dealt with identifying the audiences for your press release and how to avoid turning them off.
In this part I offer some specific advice to telecare/telehealth organisations and companies that deal directly with the public, such as alarm monitoring companies, councils and housing associations in the UK, and charities.
Part 4: Specific advice for supplier companies
Company news (new chief officers, acquisitions, takeovers, investment plans, etc.) is only marginally more of a story for supplier companies than service provider ones, as they will have some industry-specific audiences, such as shareholders.
However, by writing dull ‘this is the facts’ press releases on these occasions you may, as I mentioned at the start of Part 1, be missing an opportunity or two.
Part 5: Press release structure and press release doom
The conventional press release structure helps readers extract the information they want quickly.
There are variations, depending on the industry and type of press release and, when submitting releases to online distribution services, the elements often have to be split up and put in different boxes. That is, the structure is determined for you. However, the typical structure looks like this:
Part 6: How to get journalists to contact you – and being prepared when they do
I’m glad I’m not a journalist working on a national newspaper.
Imagine…day after day having tens, possibly hundreds, of stories pitched to you in the hope that you are going to spend your precious time helping the authors get publicity.
Well, here are a few tips for breaking through that and increasing your chances of getting your story picked up and enticing a journalist to contact you for more:
Healthsense
Red Alert Telecare (Kent, UK)
Tweets from Med-e-Tel 2009
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