...received grants up to $22 million over four years for research on an implantable neuroprosthetic. UCLA’s approach is to focus on the entorhinal area of the brain which researchers previously demonstrated could be stimulated and with the hippocampus is involved in learning and memory. Initial research is testing brain electrodes for epilepsy and to develop a computational model of the hippocampal-entorhinal system. Medtronic is using those models and as the newest partner, evaluating a novel neural stimulation and monitoring system to restore brain memory function. A true neuroprosthetic–consider an assistance chip on or near the brain–is years away. In the... Continue Reading
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‘Brain Games’ on preventing, diagnosing sub-concussive brain trauma
...have restricted the amount of full-contact practices both during and pre-season (Forbes); California and Arizona also adopted similar rules (NPR) with Illinois the latest in April (Breitbart). Dr. Stern’s newest research is not yet published, but he shared two preliminary findings and overall status with this audience of clinicians, academics, attorneys, investors: Football players who started in the game before the age of 12 had three times the likelihood of self-reported executive function problems: changes in mood, behavior, cognition. CTE has been found in a developmentally disabled person who is a repetitive head banger. Among soldiers, blast trauma in combat... Continue Reading
Samsung gets jump on 2014 smartwatch rush
Breaking news [grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/galaxy_gear_mockup.jpg” thumb_width=”175″ /]Word via Mashable is that Samsung’s shot over the bow in the smartwatch wars comes on 4 September when it introduces its smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, just ahead of the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. Rumor has it that it will be in five colors (white, orange, gray, black and the newest trend, white gold). This couples with their recent introduction of the massive phablet, the Galaxy Mega. No word yet on health applications, but what comes in the smartwatch will be an indicator of Samsung’s seriousness about extending S Health. (Photo is... Continue Reading
Alere Connect gains FDA approval for MobileLink
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/topper-mobilelink1-1140×180.jpg” thumb_width=”175″ /]We had been surprised at how quiet Alere Connect, the former MedApps, has been since its acquisition a year ago. Their latest news is that their newest and quite streamlined gateway hub, Alere MobileLink, has received FDA clearance to add to its recent CE Mark certification, clearing it for introduction in both US and Europe later this year. The US announcement also indicates that it will be packaged with Alere’s INRatio 2 PT/INR Monitor as part of home patient monitoring of anticoagulant medications programs through Alere Home Monitoring. This Editor notes that anticoagulant monitoring is ‘high-value’ and... Continue Reading
Internet training for older people vs works-out-of-the-box mobiles
...try to think about it as the newest mass media as this will help you appreciate the opportunity to connect things that should be connected eg. Smoke Alarms (http://Firetext.me), Care Monitors (http://www.sendtech.co.uk/SeN-Cit/index.shtml), etc. Charles Lowe Hi David, To support your comments about looking around the rest of the world, I was talking this morning to Dr Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, who was extremely enthusiastic about the use of technology to improve healthcare delivery. Like you, he also commented that to see how to employ technology most effectively it was necessary to learn from abroad - on his regular... Continue Reading
Update on Health+Care 2013 pre-event
As reported previously, on Tuesday 14 May, the organisers of Health+Care 2013 held a pre-event telecare/telehealth exhibition called The Home Care House of the Future hosted by Circle Housing Group at one of its newest Circle Living shared ownership flats in London. Thanks to the organisers and exhibitors, we can now post the following 3½ minute video and additional information provided by the exhibitors. [This video is no longer available on this site but may be findable via an internet search] The Home Care House of the Future event demonstrated technologies that can help people live independently in their own... Continue Reading
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