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Keeping People Healthy at Home

The video interview above, Kian Saneii of Independa, illustrates a cloud-based system that helps a person stay in their home, even as they age or fight long-term health issues.  Through sensors and two-way communications, the health care giver can be remote, but with a 24-hour virtual presence.  This approach of substituting technology and communications promises a better quality of life at a lower price than the nursing home alternative.

The recently penned white paper from Parks Associates’ Harry Wang, provides a good snapshot of the age-at-home market, the associated technologies, the challenges and the business model.  With the 65+ population slated to increase by 48% from 2005 to 2020, this is a market that is sure to grow and one that will need automation to leverage a limited number of health-care workers.  The good thing for telecom providers is that the demand for remote healthcare will be a driver of  bandwidth and connectivity growth.

ViodiTV coverage of the 2011 CONNECTIONS™ conference brought to you by Parks Associates.

One response to “Keeping People Healthy at Home”

  1. Emmett Smith Avatar

    Having started visiting older people in rest homes and at home who were teachers, business owners, family firends, the parents of my friends when I was groing up, etc. and having monitoring equipment in my home for myself, I can say that nothing replaces the personal touch. I was told that my visits made people feel better many times. After a doctor told me to drink water and put me in the hospital whjere I almost died and another docytor over-medicated me and made me pass out and injure myself, I was to discover that no one had been looking at the information that my home equipment transmits every day. The doctor expresssed that he was saving me money because I didn't have to drive to his clinic as aften. The people who came to see me were pushy and had a provcess that they didn't want to deviate from and were prepared to argue about it, but the obvious goal was to produce revenue for the company that they worked for. I was always glad when they left. After they stopped coming, I was not prevented from doing things and I recovered faster and began walking 6 miles per day. The thing that really made me feel good was when people would come to see me and better yet, when people would come and take me to the rest home where my friends were.
    For the elderly and ill, it is a difficult chore to just to get up and get a glass of water. Most people don't grasp how hard this is and how easy that it is to fall into a state of dispair. When computer systems get to the point where people can have cameras and interact with each other easily, things will have ben accomplished, but for now nothing beats having someone come visit and play tic tac toe. 

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