Products & Services

Modern Health Talk is proud to offer this growing list of Home Health Care Products and Services, but we make no endorsement and get no advertising revenue from any of them.

10 Policy Principles for Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things
“The Internet of Things” encapsulates the idea that ordinary objects will be embedded with sensors and connected to the Internet. This excellent report highlights principles needed to maximize the considerable promise of economic growth and social well-being resulting from this technology trend.

5min Media
This syndicated library of instructional and lifestyle videos includes tens of thousands of short (~5 min) titles across 20 categories, including Fitness, Health, Home, and Technology.

AbleData
The AbleData website provides objective information about assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources to consumers, organizations, professionals, and caregivers within the United States. We serve the nation’s disability, rehabilitation, and senior communities.

AccessWireless.org, a service of CTIA, The Wireless Association®
Helps people with disabilities, seniors and their families to find a cell phone and service

AgeLab
MIT’s AgeLab is a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, business partners, universities, and the aging community to design, develop and deploy innovative technologies for better aging.

The Alzheimer’s Store
The Alzheimer’s Store is an Ageless Design company dedicated to providing products and information for those caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease.

ANT+
ANT is a proprietary wireless sensor network technology with implementations in sport and wellness.

This large retail chain now carries Blood Pressure Monitors, Personal Monitoring Devices, Scales, Medication Reminders, and products for Hearing & Vision, Sleep & Stress Relief, Light Therapy, and Massage & Spa.

Bluetooth v4.0
Simple, secure and super-efficient Bluetooth technology is creating huge opportunities in health and wellness. More than 40 million Bluetooth enabled health and medical devices are already in the market as of mid-2011, and the global market for wireless patient-monitoring equipment is expected to reach $9.3 billion by 2014, according to TechNavio. On mHealthTalk.com, also visit Healthcare meets Bluetooth Low Energy technology and CES in Pajamas.

Caring.com
Caring.com is a website for caregivers to find information about how to support aging relatives. The site provides tips and advice for managing medication and a search engine for finding nearby care providers. They make money from paid advertisements, enhanced senior living and in-home care directory listings, senior living and home care referrals and emails from advertisers, but they keep a strict separation between that and editorial content.

Castlight Health
If you work for a large corporation, you may have already heard of Castlight. Through its wellness programs, employers foot the bill so you can access information about the cost and quality of care, including physicians and hospitals. You can also shop for procedures and/ or book doctor’s visits.

Center for Universal Design
NC State University’s Center for Universal Design is a national information, technical assistance, and research center that evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in housing, commercial and public facilities, outdoor environments, and products.

Cisco Connected Health
This webpage is mostly about enabling local & remote team collaboration, patient examinations, and consultations while providing security, interoperability, device connectivity, and regulatory compliance, and enhancing the integration and management of medical device data.

ConnectedLiving
Connected Living® introduces, enhances, and encourages communication with family and friends while reducing technology timidity and expanding educational and social opportunities with a simplified user interface and education.

Continua Health Alliance
Continua is a non-profit, open industry organization of more than 230 healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare.

eCaring.com
eCaring is a unique icon-based system for recording, monitoring, and managing home health care.

ElderGadget
This website provides consumer electronics reviews focusing on products with senior friendly features (mostly boomers).

Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Tracking the Pulse of Mobile Technology in Healthcare (website & newsletter)

FoneMed
FONEMED provides 24×7 nurse triage & health information services to more than 2,300 client groups throughout North America and the Caribbean.  These clients represent military & civilian government agencies, physician practices, benefits providers, hospitals, universities, TPAs, job corps centers, assistance hotlines, distributors/resellers, case management organizations and home healthcare monitoring organizations.

GrandCare Systems
GrandCare Systems is a caregiving and communications TOOL, designed to enhance family and caregiving relationships while giving Loved Ones and their Care-Partners desired “peace of mind”, freedom, dignity and entertainment.

Harris Communications
A one-stop source of products for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people, from assistive products like vibrating clocks and amplified phones to books and DVDs on sign language and improving interpreting skills.

Healthsense
Healthsense provides integrated systems, including eNeighbor®, which is based on a standard Wi-Fi platform for Personal Emergency Response Systems, Wi-Fi wireless nurse call and remote safety and wellness monitoring.

HealthTap
HealthTap is a Silicon Valley-based Q&A site for consumers to ask health-related questions, and receive answers from certified physicians. The provided information and education is vetted and peer-reviewed.

Healthymagination
Seeking to build stronger relationships between patients and doctors, GE created healthymagination to gather, share and discuss healthy ideas. This website and community is about becoming healthier, through the sharing of imaginative ideas and proven solutions.

Honeywell HomMed
Honeywell HomMed, part of Honeywell’s Life Safety business unit, offers telehealth solutions and remote patient monitoring.

iMedicalApps
iMedicalApps provides reviews and commentary by medical professionals, serving practitioners, patients and analysts interested in mobile medical technology and health care apps.

Intel-GE Care Innovations
Care Innovations was formed from a combination of Intel’s Digital Health Group and GE Healthcare’s Home Health Division with the aim of being a catalyst for changing health care models. To do so, they create tech solutions that give people confidence to live independently.

International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP)
This is a membership-based organization for individuals and organizations focused on accessibility. They have a good newsletter you can subscribe to for free.

International Healthcare Technology (IHT)
An online magazine for healthcare IT industry professionals (Payor and Provider CIO’s and Healthcare IT managers) searching the Internet for Healthcare IT and Medical Hospital Technology news.

iTriage
Health insurance giant Aetna acquired the parent company behind iTriage, a mobile and web application that helps patients take charge of their health. iTriange is best known for its free symptom checker, an easy way to find out whether a creepy-looking rash warrants a doctor’s visit. You can also use iTriage to locate the nearest hospital or doctor’s office and book an appointment.

JitterBug phone & LiveNurse service
A simplified phone providing unlimited, 24-hr health advice from an RN.

KraftMaid Cabinetry
The universally designed Passport Series is a welcoming collection of kitchen and bath cabinets specially crafted for any needs regardless of age or disability.

Life Chronicles
LifeChronicles.org is a nonprofit that began simply as a way to preserve memories. It has grown into a remarkable way to bring healing and connection to families with loved ones – whether they be seniors or those facing serious illness – who are facing the end of life, and it allows them to do so with dignity, integrity, and respect.

Lumosity
Lumos Labs believes in improving brain function — and lives. Drawing on the latest neuroscience breakthroughs, they provide a simple online tool designed to help anyone achieve their brain’s full potential.

Maine CITE
Making assistive and universally designed technology more available to Maine children and adults who need them.

Media Access Australia
An Australian nonprofit devoted to increasing media access for people with disabilities. Their tagline is “Inclusion through Technology.”

Medical Alert Systems
If you’re worried about falling in your home, or have a loved one you worry about, it may be time to invest in a medical alert system. Here’s a review of options and what to consider. And here’s a good review site.

Medical SmartPhones
A technology blog by and for medical professionals with focus on smartphones in medicine and mobile health apps

mHealth Alliance
Mobilizing Innovation for Glogal Health and working with diverse partners, the Alliance serves as a convener for the mHealth community to integrate mHealth into multiple sectors and overcome common challenges by sharing tools, knowledge, experience, and lessons learned.

mHealthWatch Blog
Jared Reitzin writes about mobile health applications and app development (most for industry versus consumers)

Microsoft Accessibility Guide for Boomers
Discover easy ways to customize your computer without downloading or purchasing anything.

National Center for Accessible Media
A non-profit R&D organization dedicated to achieving media access equality for people with disabilities.

Open Doors Organization
This group is about opening doors for people with disabilities in transportation and tourism

Oregon Center for Aging and Technology
ORCATECH is a university research initiative that seeks to facilitate successful aging and reduce the cost of healthcare through research, technologies, partnerships, and supporting evidence.

Philips Lifeline
Medical Alert Service and Medication Dispensing Service

Raising the Floor
Making the web & mobile technologies accessible to everyone with disability, literacy and aging-related barriers, regardless of their economic status. They are compiling a master list of solutions for all known barriers and disability categories, including Blindness, Low Vision, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Physical Disabilities, and Cognitive Issues.

Security of Mobile Devices in Healthcare
This SOPHOS white paper applies mostly to mobile devices used in enterprise settings. An easy solution is to store data remotely on servers and NOT on the phone/tablet itself.

Senior Home Care Services
Search by City, State or Zipcode to find in-home care for you or a family member. Services range from specialized care for those with chronic diseases to companion services for seniors looking for assistance with daily activities.

SeniorNet
SeniorNet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit focused on promoting computer access and use of older adults.

Tech-Enabled
“Tech Enabled” is a series of CNET articles about the role technology plays in helping the disability community. Topics include robotics, smart home, and assistive technology and product features for accessible, independent living and eldercare

Tech Revolution Benefits the Aging
This excellent Kiplinger article shows that Aging-in-place technology is helping to improve the aging experience for seniors and family caregivers.

Technology for Aging in Place
Website by Laurie M. Orlov, Founder, Aging in Place Technology Watch.

Technology for Long Term Care
Helping healthcare professionals make informed decisions about Long-Term Care products

Technology Helps Seniors Remain at Home
Excellent Kiplinger article features many tech products for aging-in-place.

Telemedicine Technologies
About all sorts of telemedicine, but pretty techie (mostly for the medical industry vs. consumers)

TERI (Training, Education & Research Institute)
TERI is a private, non-profit agency serving the needs of children and adults with autism and other developmental and learning disabilities, and their families.

Text4Baby
Receive free, educational SMS text messages each week, timed to your due date or baby’s date of birth.

Trending Accessibility
This commercial website provides universal design and accessibility products to consumers, contractors, and architects, primarily focused on bathroom projects.

Ultimate Guide to Digital Health Resources
This resource is for digital health startups and lists nearly 100 accelerators, incubators, challenges, competitions, hackathons, corporate labs open to startups, networks/communities, investors, investor match-making forums, conferences, etc.

VIRTUAL HEALTH
This subscription-based service works with physicians to develop customized, daily “health sessions” and health and wellness concierge services in the convenience of their homes.

Waldo Health
This Austin, TX based company makes low-cost easy-to-use equipment and systems for home health care and remote monitoring applications.

WebMD
WebMD is the largest source of medical information on the Web, according to ComScore. It provides health information about dozens of conditions and includes feedback from certified physicians.WebMD provides health information, tools and support for managing your health.

WellAWARE Systems
Provides sensors and wellness monitoring solutions to provide meaningful and insightful physiological data to caregivers and family members

Wi-Fi Alliance
Today people around the world use Wi-Fi in countless ways at home, at work, and in mobile devices. Wi-Fi adoption continues to grow, and common goals still bind together more than 400 Wi-Fi Alliance member companies from dozens of countries. The Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua Health Alliance recently announced plans to collaborate on personal connected health.

WikiDoc.org
WikiDoc allows a community of healthcare professionals to ‘co-create’ webpages in a way that does not require knowledge of HTML language or computer programming. As a result, numerous people can collaborate in writing articles, textbook chapters or news stories.

Wireless Life Sciences Alliance
This global trade organization that brings together business leaders, researchers, and wireless health companies to improve healthcare and accelerate business opportunities.

Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare
Wireless sensor networks for healthcare have emerged in the recent years, driven by the confluence between the need to collect data about people’s physical, physiological, psychological,cognitive,and behavioral processes in spaces ranging from personal to urban and the recent availability of the technologies that enable this data collection. This 14-page technical IEEE white paper presents application examples of wireless sensor networks for healthcare and challenges due to elevated requirements for trustworthyness, privacy and security. (Nov/2011)

 

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