MediTech: telemonitoring system in Health Care

Estonia

Short presentation

MediTech is a private company that has been offering home monitoring systems for elderly and people with physical disabilities

Goals

- provide every person - regardless of their age, illnesses or disability - a safer independent life at their own home.

Contexte (territory issues, targeted audience)

In Estonia, 20% of the population are above 65 years old (in 2040: 28%). MediTech is a private company that has been offering home monitoring systems (alarm button with various detectors that recognize smoke in the room, or that the person has fallen) for about 10 years.

The system enables the people who may need help to stay at their own home as long as possible, and saves money if compared with living in the care home.

Users are mainly elderly and people with physical disabilities