Howz releases platform upgrade for improved care decision making
This release is the first of a number planned over the next 3 months including cohort summaries, downloadable reports and customisable alerts.
Everon announces strategic partnership with Howz to enhance Assisted Living solutions
Everon have announced Howz as a strategic partner to provide Active Daily Living services within assisted living.
Are you interested in taking part in research to share your views about new technologies to remotely monitor health in the home?
Have your say about the future of remote health monitoring at home as part of the University of Glasgow study with Howz.
Howz one of six companies selected by Bupa to be part of eco-Disruptive programme for reduction of carbon emissions
Bupa have selected Howz as one of six cutting edge tech innovators that can reduce climate impact of healthcare. As part of the eco-Disruptive programme, Howz and Bupa will together scope the impact that can be delivered from behavioural monitoring within the home.
Howz work with Reading Borough Council to keep vulnerable people safe at home after they leave hospital
After a successful short-term project, Reading Borough Council have secured grant funding to support vulnerable adults to have happier, healthier lives at home.
Howz and Sheffield City Council help keep elderly people safe and well at home with remote behavioural monitoring
Howz and Sheffield City Council are providing technology enabled care services to elderly individuals when they leave hospital, to keep them safe and well at home.
Howz have completed a trial in Salford to establish whether monitoring older people's daily routine helps them feel better living in the community after being discharged from hospital
Howz have completed a trial in Salford order to establish whether monitoring older people's daily routine could help them to feel better about living in the community after being discharged from hospital.
A key focus of the study was how this type of service could be used to improve the care provided by an NHS clinical service or Social Care Service.
New Howz research published: Identifying irregular activity sequences: an application to passive household monitoring
Howz and our R&D partners the University of Lancaster have published new research into the development of our algorithms for remote behavioural monitoring.
New Howz research published: Modeling and forecasting of at home activity in older adults using passive sensor technology
Howz and Uni of Lancaster algorithms for Modeling and Forecasting of at home activity in older adults using passive sensor technology published in Statistics in Medicine.
Andrew Conroy: Contact Centre Manager at Johnnie Johnson Housing Trust
“Technology provides flexibility, choice and is a great way to support not replace direct care and can be a gradual and safe way to introduce the idea of care services to possibly resistant customers.”
Dr. Richard Wong: Consultant Geriatrician, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
‘Anything that can be done to lessen the burden and requirements on individuals to have to interact in a formal sense with the technology and the less intrusive on their everyday life this is, the more likely there will be a positive and cooperative relationship between technology and care’
Jim Gray: Digital Health Entrepreneur, Consultant Surgeon & Clinical Director of Orthopaedic Surgery
“We are generally desperate to move medically fit patients out of hospital”
Rachael Grimaldi: Co-Founder and CEO CardMedic®, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, and an anaesthetist.
“The role of technology is fundamental to the success of treating patients in any healthcare setting in the NHS whether it’s from structuring their notes, arranging investigations, monitoring remotely or undertaking life-saving procedures”
Brian Roberts: Head of the TRE Service for England & Programme Head at NHS Digital
“I'd say adoption only really happens when the tech is distinctly the answer to a business/service problem in H&C... instead of starting with the tech then looking for the problem.”