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West Health Investment Fund Includes Healthsense
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Gary and Mary West, co-founders of the West Wireless Health Institute, today announced the formation of a $100 million investment fund with a unique mission to lower health care costs. The West Health Investment Fund, LLC will provide risk capital for companies with cutting-edge health care technologies and services that offer the potential to substantially lower the cost of health care. With recent declines in investment funding in key health care sectors, the West Health Investment Fund will fill a critical gap, to spur the development and adoption of health care innovations specifically focused on making health care more affordable....
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Healthsense Partners with Goodwin House Bailey’s Crossroads to Deliver Technology-Enabled Care Solutions
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Healthsense, Inc. is pleased to announce that Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads has selected Healthsense as their aging services technology provider. Healthsense's technology solutions will help Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads meet their goal of providing a high standard of servicethat promotes health and wellness to maximize the quality of life and safety of their residents...
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| Sodexo Partners with Healthsense to Offer Seniors Technology-Enabled Solutions that Improve Quality of Daily Life |
Sodexo, Inc., a leader in Quality of Daily Life Solutions announced a partnership with Healthsense, Inc. As a part of the agreement, Sodexo will offer technology-enabled solutions by Healthsense to its existing senior living client communities - expanding Sodexo's current offerings to realize their vision of improved Quality of Life for all of the people and communities they serve...
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| Healthsense, Verizon Team to Bring Home-Health Solutions to FiOS-Equipped Senior Living Communities |
Verizon and Healthsense will help bring cost-effective wellness and health monitoring services to planned senior-living communities, under an agreement announced today. The new services will be offered to senior or assisted-living housing developments utilizing Verizon's advanced FiOS all-fiber-optic network. Healthsense's Wi-Fi based technology systems will provide increased independence for residents and added assurance that they are safe...
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| Wi-Fi Alliance® and Continua® Health Alliance Collaborate on Personal Connected Health |
The Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua Health Alliance have entered into an agreement to facilitate and promote the adoption of Wi-Fi networking technology in connected health applications. The agreement enables cooperative efforts for joint technical review of Wi-Fi Alliance and Continua Health Alliance specifications and guidelines in order to facilitate interoperability of personal health and fitness applications, thus fueling a great user experience and even faster adoption...
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| Digital Health Summit "Game Changer" Press Release |
Healthsense is proud to have taken part in the Digital Health Summit at this year's 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. The Consumer Electronics Show is the world's largest consumer technology trade show. It focuses on the most cutting edge technological innovations and the way in which they will shape consumer markets in the future. The Digital Health Summit is specifically focused on the ways technological innovations are shaping the future of healthcare...
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| New Healthsense Board of Directors |
Healthsense, Inc., a leading provider of safety and wellness monitoring technology solutions for senior care, announced today the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors, including highly regarded healthcare industry figures with a broad range of experience and expertise across the entire healthcare continuum. The four new Directors - Vincent Conti, Steven Epstein, Daniel Lubin and Vinod Sahney - will advise and guide the Healthsense management team on expanding the company's technology platform to new healthcare markets...
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| Courtland HT PACE Program |
Employing remote monitoring technology to enable the elderly to move from nursing homes and into community-based settings such as supportive housing can keep seniors safe at a substantially reduced cost, according to a new study released today...
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| Investment by Radius Ventures, LLC |
Healthsense, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation wireless sensors and remote monitoring solutions for the senior care market is pleased to announce the close of a growth capital financing round led by Radius Ventures, LLC ("Radius"). Radius, a focused health and life sciences venture fund, was joined in the round by Healthsense's existing investors, including Ziegler HealthVest Partners, LP and its affiliate The Ziegler Companies, Inc...
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| UL Safety and Reliability Approvals |
Healthsense announces today that its eNeighbor® Wi-Fi Wireless Nurse Call System has successfully completed compliance testing at Intertek per ANSI/UL 1069 - Hospital Signaling and Nurse Call Equipment. The UL 1069 Standard covers the equipment employed to form a hospital nurse call system intended to provide audible and visual communication between patients and facility personnel...
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| DARPA Press Release |
Mendota Heights based Healthsense, Inc., a leading supplier of remote monitoring systems that enable older adults to age in place safely in their homes, announced today that it has been awarded a Phase II SBIR grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This research program will demonstrate how wellness monitoring and assistive technologies can be used to slow the progression of older adults through the care continuum, specifically, reduce the advancement of older adults into costly skilled nursing facilities...
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| Wi-Fi Certified Press Release |
Healthsense, Inc. announced today that its eNeighbor® Remote Monitoring System for seniors is now Wi-Fi CERTIFIEDTM, making Healthsense the first and only aging services technology company to achieve this important affirmation of the interoperability of its wireless sensor technology. The eNeighbor system, which operates on a standard Wi-Fi network, includes a personal emergency response system, advanced remote monitoring for automatic fall detection and telehealth devices to remotely monitor chronic conditions...
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| Masonicare Press Release |
A new study launched by researchers at Quinnipiac University will attempt to determine whether seniors monitored by Healthsense, Inc.'s wireless sensor technology at the Masonicare healthcare and retirement community in Wallingford, Conn., are able to remain independent for longer, delay being admitted to a hospital or nursing home, and better attend to their own basic daily needs. Healthsense is an aging services technology company based in Mendota Heights, Minn....
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| NewCourtland Press Release |
A new research report released today by Healthsense and NewCourtland Elder Services concludes that seniors who rely on remote monitoring technology to help them remain secure and independent adapt well to living with the technology and do not see it as intrusive or impersonal...
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| Northfield Press Release |
Seniors with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are being cared for at Northfield Retirement Community with state-of-the-art remote monitoring technology designed by Healthsense, a Mendota Heights-based aging services technology company. The Healthsense Integrated Solution technology, installed in Northfield's new 12-unit Evergreen Lodge memory care facility, improves safety and security for residents by allowing staff to monitor residents remotely and respond more quickly to their needs...
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| Ziegler Conference Press Release |
Healthsense, Inc., a market leader in providing technology solutions for the future of aging services, will present the results of research validating the use of its groundbreaking eNeighbor® remote monitoring system at the prestigious 11th Annual Ziegler Senior Living and Finance Strategy Conference held in Lake George, N.Y., on Sept. 24-26. Healthsense officials also will introduce a technology road map for the senior living industry, designed to guide providers as they strive to meet the challenge of selecting and implementing effective aging services technologies....
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| Goodwin House/Ekahau Press Release |
Residents at Goodwin House Alexandria, a faith-based, not-for-profit retirement community, are being kept safe and secure with some of the most advanced remote monitoring technology available. This technology, which includes software that can pinpoint the location of any resident who calls for help within the nearly eight-acre grounds of the community, was designed by Healthsense, a Mendota Heights, Minn.-based aging services technology company, using software developed by Ekahau, a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based real time location systems...
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| New Video to Premier at AHCA/NCAL |
Healthsense, Inc., a market leader in providing technology solutions for the future of aging services, will premier a new five-minute video about the company at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living's 59th Annual Convention and Expo being held from Oct. 5-8 in Nashville, Tenn...
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| Healthsense-Alzheimer's Press Release |
Families in Ohio and Pennsylvania who use Healthsense's state-of-the-art eNeighbor® remote monitoring to help care for elderly relatives with Alzheimer's disease or dementia say the technology has enabled them to keep their loved ones safe at home for longer and delay placing them permanently in secured memory care units. They also credit the Healthsense technology with improving their own quality of life by helping relieve the stress and strain of tending to seniors with Alzheimer's or dementia...
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