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Pendent medical alerts evolve – and will disappear

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Meanwhile, in 2010, MobileHelp launched a wireless/mobile pendant – that is one that could be used outside the home. And so it went – by 2012 MobileHelp had acquired Halo Monitoring to have fall detection capability and that same year, Numera acquired Blue Libris’ fall detection – ultimately acquired by Nortek.

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Monitoring at home will be the norm for older adults

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And most recently, PERS vendor MobileHelp, which already had its ClearArch RPM offering , was acquired by Aurora Health, which had already acquired a Home Care franchise business, Senior Helpers. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS.

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What use is a PERS smart watch without a call center?

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The Real Senior (or family member) should expect a PERS watch to include a monitoring service – for example, the MobileHelp Smart, the Medical Guardian Smart Watch , the FallCall Lite App (for Apple Watch ), or UnaliWear’s voice-enabled Kanega watch. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Seniors , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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From Medical Alert to RPM – old marketing and products are obsolete

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VRICares (acquired), MobileHelp (acquired), Anelto – all in RPM, a $16 billion market – said to reduce hospital admissions and lower costs. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , wearables, smart watch. Compare that to PERS $1-2 billion market. Move further into the smarter watch space?

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Ten technologies that can help with fall detection in 2019

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In fact, MobileHelp, one of the first mobile PERS devices, acquired Halo Monitoring in 2012 – a good move for both, especially since by 2012, it was clear that fall detection by itself was not yet a market category hit. MobileHelp. Learn more at MobileHelp. category tags: fall prevention, fall detection.

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2020 Technology trends that benefit older adults and caregivers

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Meanwhile, as a result of Apple’s more senior-capable offering, emergency watches (PERS) with call center integration, like MobileHelp and UnaliWear, got a boost. . category tags: wearables, smart watch , smartphones, cell phones , hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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The more technology changes, the more some categories will remain

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Just as investors believed before 2009 that PERS could never be used outside the home – oops, wrong, then came MobileHelp. They believe this despite knowing that the Apple watch has $400 price tag and it lacks a call center. And only 20 % of boomers and 5% of seniors are buying them. . . Attachment Size. pdf 909.71

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