QUINCY, Mass., April 29, 2013 -- ConnectedLiving, a mission-based organization helping senior citizens live richer, more connected lives through the use of technology, today announced a partnership with CDW Healthcare, a leading provider of technology solutions for healthcare. Together both organizations will deliver the technology, services and training necessary to get entire senior living communities online.

Royal Philips Electronics and Corindus Vascular Robotics have signed a U.S. distribution agreement for Corindus CorPath 200 system, the recently FDA-approved robotic-assisted system to be used during PCI procedures.

Nearly 90 percent of physicians who use rolling robots to remotely treat patients in the ICU do so without additional compensationyet a strong majority, 66 percent, consider the technology a blessing. None perceive such remote presence as a pure burden and, while 33 percent see it as a mixed blessing and burden, fully 100 percent intend to continue using it.

The FDA has expanded its clearance of InTouch Healths remote-presence monitors to allow use of the telemedicine technology in a number of acute-care environments.

Licensing, costs for technology and reimbursement for robotic telemedicine continue to impede progress, according to an article published in the January/February edition of Telemedicine and e-Health.

A remote-controlled, robotic telemedicine system in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is feasible and safe, according to a research published in the May editiion of Journal of Perinatology.

Advances in robotic capabilities, combined with the improving economic environment for medical services delivery and payments, are driving demand for surgical, assistive and telemedicine-based robots, according to ABI Research.

Royal Philips Electronics and Hansen Medical have agreed to co-develop integrated products that may simplify cardiac procedures to diagnose and treat cardiac arrhythmias.