Senior service providers retool business model with eldercare technologies
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Blog: Eldercare service providers point to changing their business models with the aid of technology.
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The worldwide services industry is undergoing a shift similar to what happened in manufacturing a generation ago, according to IDC analyst Marianne Hedin.
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SAN DIEGO, Feb. 22  /PRNewswire/ -- AgeSpan, a senior Internet enabling solution for seniors in the United States, recently unveiled their SAM (Senior Assisted Monitoring) Cam solution for combating nursing home abuse.
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Company's drive is not just for OEMs anymore.
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(Source: Oblicore) Service Delivery Management, once thought of as the domain of early adopter companies, has clearly become more mainstream. Read the Oblicore survey results for a detailed analysis of these adoption trends.
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Some of the nationâs biggest companies will announce a new program meant to make health insurance available to their former employees ages 55 to 64.
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Company hopes to attract users who will later upgrade to its small business software.
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TechWeb - Services companies are stepping up efforts to financially support customers deploying cutting-edge technologies, such as service oriented architecture and radio frequency identification technology.
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AUSTIN A 34 (M) million dollar reform plan released today in Austin is meant to bolster the state&#39;s elder care program. The Health and Human Services Commission released the overhaul for Adult Protective Services
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TechWeb - Data center modernization and mobile-phone payments trial signal a shift in the card company&#39;s business model.
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(InfoWorld) - As any developer can tell you, creating interoperability between SOA components and existing IT environments isnât trivial. It requires a lot of effort and coding. But IBM says it has the antidote for the IT headache: composite business services in the form of wrappers around existing IT applications. Big Blueâs strategy to create reusable SOA services is largely built around technologies and tools that the company received from its August acquisition of Webify Solutions, a vendor of SOA software and services. Webify provides hundreds of industry-specific, prebuilt standards-based accelerators, tools, and frameworks. Its offerings help solve business problems that are specific to a given industry, such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance for the health care industry and ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) standards in the insurance industry. Within IBM, Webifyâs technology provides the basis for WebSphere Business Services Fabric (IBMâs SOA platform for modeling, assembly, and deployment of business services), says Brett MacIntyre, vice president for composite services development at IBM.                                                     âWebify (software) has given us the fabric, the view across the industry of common services used within the industry, and the tools and the methods with which to build these composite business services,â MacIntyre says. Webify also brought relationships with customers in the health care and insurance industries, and a portfolio of about 12 composite business services in the insurance and health care industries, MacIntyre says. Composite business services built by IBM will interoperate through the standard framework from Webify, with ontologies and data models associated with an industry added on top of the WebSphere Business Services Fabric to create a particular component, MacIntyre says. âFor example, a core data model that the insurance companies in the U.S. work with is part of the overall business fabric,â he says. Webify tools, processes and methodologies will also play a key role at SOA Solutions Centers in Beijing and Pune, India, says Jeby Cherian, the head of IBMâs Global Business Solutions Center, one of three organizations IBM set up to create reusable software assets.
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By James Thorner, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 4--Technology companies used to enjoy rich, long lives: Consider  graybeards like IBM and General Electric.   No longer.   Peter Marcotullio, an SRI International executive visiting St.
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Distribution system could help businesses manage software upgrades on wireless devices.
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In a sign of JapanÂs rapidly graying society, convenience stores once associated with the young are being transformed for the elderly.
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A managed services provider relies on remote, proactive support when possible, and franchises onsite calls to local shops.
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The fragmented  software business is growing up.
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At a time when local governments are in a whirl of planning for aging baby boomers, folks in one Montgomery County community have mastered the art of delivering senior-friendly services.