I just returned from a flying visit to Indianapolis, home of racecars, the Slippery Noodle haunted bar, and the CEDIA Expo, the annual trade show for the custom home integrators that make houses into tricked-out, electronic-media-rich homes. I was struck by how the same innovation-related discussions we’re having at our Aging2.0 events are increasingly relevant [...]
In the previous post about the Healthcare Unbound Conference, Ryan Frederick commented that the time for change is now and that in order to create meaningful change we need to (1) focus on the consumer and (2) design innovative business models. LeadingAge and LeadingAge CAST co-sponsored a session – Innovative Technology-Enabled Care Models – which [...]
[Note: This is a guest post by Hemali Thakkar from Health 2.0 (@Health2con). Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Innovation Center (@pamfinnovation) partnered with Health 2.0 to run the linkAges Developer Challenge and Accelerator Program. linkAges (#linkAges) is the Innovation Center’s Successful Aging initiative. We blogged about the challenge when it was announced in April and again after our energizing weekend at the linkAges kickoff [...]
Spotted this in FierceMobileHealthcare. I like the sound of the algorithm-based intelligence that Healthsense refers to – studying patterns and then identifying activities that fall outside the norm. That’s much more ‘human’ than just having an arbitrary technical algorithm model of what people should be doing (such as ‘not fall down’), and provides more opportunities [...]
Will the elderly tolerate a barrage of devices monitoring and tracking them, revealing everything down to when they had breakfast or last had a cup of tea? Richard Jones, the boss of Lusora, responds with a question of his own: “What’s a greater loss of privacy than moving out of your own house?” He has [...]
