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Telehealth: When Health Care Meets Cyberspace

19 March 2014
Source: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research

ICU Patients May Face Mental Health Issues After Discharge

19 March 2014
Study finds diagnoses for depression, anxiety increase within 3 months of ICU stay Source: HealthDay

Personal Emergency Response Systems aren’t personal...

19 March 2014
Watching PERS and consumer health tech industries is like watching parallel worlds.  You have to notice. Although offerings are now mobile, they are not moving closer to consumer health tech.  Wander from website to website of the leading players – Philips, Tunstall, ADT, Lifestation, LifeAlert, and so on, in the self-described Medical Alarm industry, regardless of who the company is, services are described and compared in this chart by VRI in the context of the ‘emergency’ dimension of ...

Docs Should Check Personalities of Younger Patients

18 March 2014
Certain traits, such as being conscientious, made patients more likely to take good care of themselves Source: HealthDay

Does Self-Esteem Affect Seniors' Health?

18 March 2014
Small study tied higher levels of stress hormone to less well-being in older adults Source: HealthDay
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