The TV you have now is barely recognisable from the one your grandparents, or even your parents had. Over the past 50 years, televisions have become thinner, taller and wider, whilst making leaps and bounds in colour, sound and clarity. These days your TV has new problems to deal with; competing for attention with any new favourite mobile device. However, that’s all about to change with a new wellness discovery that an iPhone can’t beat.
In Australia, if your wellbeing is affected by diabetes, you will now be able to access potentially life-saving information all from the comfort of your living room. The new SeeCare IPTV platform has the ability to deliver video content to your television, making health literacy classes accessible through your television’s broadband connection. This has created a new innovative development in healthcare education.
Diabetes Australia is responsible for the information which makes up this health-related video content, and the organisation will utilize SeeCare’s Web 2.0 platform in order to connect those who have been affected by diabetes with the technologies that are available on the market. Diabetes Australia aims to achieve this goal by delivering the latest diabetes healthcare information over a broadband network using Ericsson’s IPTV system.
According to Ken Clarke, who is a senior researcher from the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society at the University of Melbourne, ‘As we enter the Networked Society, we can expect to see virtually every device connected. So aside from smart phones, PC’s, and tablets, we will interact with many more devices, such as televisions for information, education, and healthcare.’
SeeCare, a provider of healthcare search and development of advanced social networking technology, developed the project in order to create a support-management group at home within the community it has created. When you have diabetes, this is especially important as the disease consistently requires daily self-management. Therefore, if you have a higher level of health literacy, you will have all the tools you need to properly manage your health. And since we live in an era submerged in having instant access to anything on a computer or mobile device, and now the television, surely it makes sense for healthcare providers and organisations to bring health literacy into the 21st century.