4HomeMedia's HealthPoint 1500 provides remote health monitoring
By Darren Murph 
posted November 13th 2007 7:35PM
posted November 13th 2007 7:35PM
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.
It's the beginning of a plotline in GitS:SAC 2ndGIG.
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...."
Whoops. They all kind of blend together after awhile