Healthsense, Inc., which provides wireless sensors and remote monitoring solutions for the senior care market, has closed a round of capital financing led by Radius Ventures, LLC.  Healthsense, which launched its first commercial product in 2006, has developed a large base of customers and demonstrated substantial year-over-year growth for its Wi-Fi sensors, nurse call systems [...]

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Seniors and Baby Boomers may not be classified as early technology adopters but research is showing that they’re catching up quickly.  A new report from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May [...]

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COLLAGE, a consortium of aging service organizations, is sponsoring a symposium, Integrating Data and Technology to Advance Healthy Aging — Implications for Aging Service Organizations.  The symposium is scheduled for September 27 and 28 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and will examine what opportunities exist by participating in COLLAGE and using research data to provide [...]

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced earlier this month that more than $32 million in FY 2010 funds have been made available to increase access to health care for Americans living in rural areas. The funds reach across seven programs administered by the Office of Rural Health Policy in HHS’ Health Resources [...]

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Wireless MedCARE, LLC recently announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its VivaTRAK™ sensor assisted care system.  The sensor-assisted care system uses a patented fiber optic sensor to monitor a patient’s activity while in bed, processes the data in a proprietary data server, provides the appropriate notifications, and reports to the nursing staff [...]

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The Singapore government recently announced that it is increasing funding for its Silver Community Test Bed Programme to $10 million over the next two years.  The third grant call is being supported by the EDB-MOH Health & Wellness Programme Office (HWPO) and is looking for technologies to pilot care innovation that will support the following [...]

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IBM (NYSE:IBM) Japan, Tottori Prefecture Information-Center (TIC) and KOA Corporation (KOA) today announced that they have embarked on a groundbreaking project to greatly improve access to critical public government online services by constructing a first of a kind Web Accessibility Cloud Center. The effort, adopted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan [...]

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Illinois Department of Commerce’s Grant Helps Continue Program in Chicago-area Cafés A fourth grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce will help continue provide inexpensive computer classes to Mather’s–More Than a Café customers throughout Chicago.  Since receiving its first Digital Divide grant in 2004 from the Illinois Department of Commerce, Mather’s staff members have provided [...]

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Product Review Are you a skeptic of commercials on TV selling consumer products?  We are too but after a substantial number of SHN reader inquiries, we bought a magicJack adapter to test out if it works as a home phone replacement.  As homeowners are examining every expense, the cost savings offered by magicJack’s commercials almost [...]

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Aiming to greatly ease the barriers that the aging or people with disabilities experience in participating in Internet activities, the OpenAjax Alliance (OAA) announced it has created new open source tooling technology to help software developers make it dramatically easier for them to access and use Web 2.0-enabled business, government and consumer web sites. The [...]

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What happens when GE wants to bring good things to life (and keep them alive) and when Intel wants to be inside the home?  A joint venture.  GE (NYSE: GE) and Intel Corporation announced Monday that they are creating a new healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living.  The announcement builds on the GE-Intel [...]

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The Center for Technology and Aging recently announced that five organizations will receive grants for remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology projects that will demonstrate how RPM improves the quality and efficiency of chronic disease management and post-acute care of older adults.  The Center’s RPM initiative goals are to demonstrate that the technologies involved can reduce [...]

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