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Health 2.0 And Telecare For The Elderly
Wireless Healthcare, Jan 2008, Pages: 28
Research into impact of Health 2.0 based services and the changing aspirations and expectations of the elderly on the telecare market.
- Profiles of Tunstall, AMDTelehealth, Docobo, Caregiver Technology and AT&T .
- Also mentioned:- Yahoo, Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault.
- The impact of a growing number of elderly people with IT skills.
- Changing attitudes to 'ageing in place.'
- When the elderly, rather than their children, purchase telehealth services.
- The elderly and blood glucose monitoring case study.
- Using Health 2.0 as a platform for telecare for the elderly.
- Health 2.0 filling the gap in the electronic patient record system market.
- Vendors are adapting to changes in the telecare market.
The next generation of elderly people will have a better working knowledge of IT and different expectations regarding healthcare than their predecessors. This will increase the take up of telecare services and see Health 2.0-based services being used by the elderly.
We will see the disappearance over the next decade of a number of inhibitors that are currently holding back the market for remote care. A case study in this report highlights the problems that elderly diabetes sufferers experience when attempting use home telecare devices. It was found that elderly people with limited experience of high technology struggle with the calibration and use of blood glucose monitors. However the next generation of users will be familiar with mobile phones, PDAs and a wide range of high technology devices.
An increase in the number of people familiar with online services will make it easier for telecare service providers to roll out monitoring services that will transmit data to a GP’s surgery and automatically add it to electronic patient records. While incumbent healthcare providers are being slow to deploy electronic patient records and make them accessible to patients, this does provide an opportunity for Health 2.0 vendors who can use advanced and open healthcare services as a platform for a range of telecare services.
The generation who drove social change in the 1960s will enter retirement with a new attitude to old age and healthcare. Anyone designing an online system to help their parents ‘age in place’ should ask themselves ‘Is this how I see myself spending my old age?’”
Who should purchase this report:-
- Medical device vendors.
- Wireless technology vendors.
- eHealth and healthcare providers.
- Decision makers in the public healthcare sector.
- Investors in the healthcare IT sector.
- Mobile operators.
- Other organisations active in telecare provision.
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