4HomeMedia's HealthPoint 1500 provides remote health monitoring

There's not a lot to go on just yet, but 4HomeMedia looks to be invading the ever-expanding home healthcare industry with the HealthPoint 1500. Dubbed an open-standards home health hub, the device reportedly provides remote health monitoring, offers up "in-home benefits" for elders and keeps friends, family and caregivers connected via a fully customizable Health Portal. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of details beyond that, but stay tuned for further developments.

[QUOW @ Nov 13th 2007 7:41PM]

It's the beginning of a plotline in GitS:SAC 2ndGIG.

[Karim @ Nov 13th 2007 8:38PM]

You mean "Solid State Society," not 2nd GIG?

"In each case, the fake parents were "Kifu Aged" - bedridden elderly connected to the healthcare monitoring network, which takes care of their basic needs but results in its users becoming nearly comatose."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_S.A.C._Solid_State_Society

"Results in its users becoming nearly comatose" -- so this network is like C-SPAN, then?

Seems like someone could die if this wasn't working properly? Only a matter of time before some coroner is writing down "Hacked" as a Cause of Death...

("...no, no, not with an axe... looks like more of a buffer overflow...")

"Hello this is OnStar. Sir? Our HealthPoint telemetry shows that you've lost control of your bowels... we're sending someone over...."

[QUOW @ Nov 13th 2007 8:43PM]

Whoops. They all kind of blend together after awhile