Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

Cardiac information from a smartwatch wearable is being brought to physicians, not yet predictive of a treatable problem -- blood pressure monitoring is also available now. The future – monitoring of change, predictive of decline, raising privacy issues. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP.

Connected Health 144

Connected Health Health Data 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2023

a) Find your phone, b) accept the text message, c) copy the ‘we will never share your information with others’ privacy token into the appropriate location on the screen. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Data privacy protections will part of solution planning. One of the five key vulnerabilities in healthcare data security is The Internet of Things. The lame recommendation was that these devices must have better security standards to protect information. Sensor technology will enable moving care from institutions to home.

Healthcare Data Security 131

Healthcare Data Security Nursing Digital Health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

Medical Guardian also informs that every 11 seconds, 1 in 4 Americans aged 65+ experience a fall-related injury. But constraints faced now and in coming years are beginning to emerge from public and political debates about privacy, ethics and proposed regulation. On the LifeAlert website, the woman is still falling and can’t get up.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

At the same time, the technology market presents growing complexity, worsening privacy issues, and interoperability limitations, while not effectively lowering the cost of access or the price of useful devices. Seniors are working longer. At 65, older adults have longer life expectancy than previous generations.

mHealth 108

mHealth Interoperability Medicare Digital Health 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

a) Find your phone, b) accept the text message, c) copy the ‘we will never share your information with others’ privacy token into the appropriate location on the screen. Poor information hobbles market perceptions about older adults. And that’s after your password is accepted – and your identity is verified. Don’t believe it?

Medical Billing 69

Medical Billing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

The fall video clips are blurred to protect privacy and can be reviewed to allow a post-fall evaluation. Within 3 weeks the brain learns to seamlessly combine the information at your ear with the clarification from your wrist." category tags: AI and machine learning , Family caregivers , Home Care. Meet Caregivers.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. Which does not help for Data Segmentation nor Privacy. All the other security-tags are not likely to be set upon publication. but it is untested grounds.

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FHIR HIE Health Information Health Data 65

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Key issues facing the industry in 2019 and into the next few years range from regulation of dietary supplements and the role of CBD in self-care, the omni-channel consumer, ecommerce vs. bricks-and-mortar, trust, and wrestling with consumer privacy. Consumer health as a category was $45 billion in 2018, growing at 2.1%.

BioTech 149

BioTech Life Science Leadership Medicare 149

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There are some concerns – though privacy invasions are not, according to experts , as worrisome as data theft from hotel or credit bureau sites. Checking out a report on smart speaker usage categories, people apparently are NOT using them, ironically, to purchase goods. There is no going back – the genie is out of the bottle.

HIPAA 94

HIPAA EHR Digital Health 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Constant Companion’s systems are supported by advanced security to protect privacy, as well as professional 24/7 monitoring. informational cards that will give users hints at the many things they can ask Google Assistant to do for them." category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health.

Telehealth 134

Telehealth 134

Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

Define Break-Glass A method used by authorized clinical people to gain access to information that the patient has indicated they want held more confidential, when that clinician has made a medical assessment that there is a safety concern that the confidential information may help shed light. Used only in Treatment use-cases.

FHIR 98

FHIR EHR Interoperability 98

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2019

As brick-and-mortar based businesses dwindle in favor of online, access to smartphone and broadband are becoming the enablers of information flow to older adults. category tags: smartphones , computers, internet and social networking. In 2019, Tech adoption changes -- some. It’s known as the Amazon effect.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

Here are six technologies (alphabetical order) entering the space – information is drawn from firm websites: Handsfree Health. WellBe ® utilizes advanced speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis to deliver information and answers from any place in your home where it can hear your voice.

HIPAA 106

HIPAA Nursing Health Data 106

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2022

I am not a fan of these reasons, but as a Privacy and Security subject matter expert, I get asked how to solve these business needs. Many think this is an easy problem to solve, just slap a security tag on the data, but it is a much bigger systems-engineering problem. The concern of all Privacy professionals is this abuse.

FHIR 52

FHIR Primary Care 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Like many privacy violations and data misuse on the Internet, consumers are usually powerless other than voting with our feet. The result was bleak and informative. The vision: Change the work process to produce Engaged Caregivers, a Connected Care Team, and Informed Families. Imagine what's possible when every stakeholder wins."

Connected Care 69

Connected Care Remote care 69

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 15, 2015

Some background articles: Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System (HCS) Data Classification - a key vector enabling rich Security and Privacy controls and other articles on my topics page Recommendation for setting confidentiatlityCode So. All the other security-tags are not likely to be set upon publication.

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FHIR HIE Health Information 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 27, 2015

If it is authorized by no new information then nothing more is returned. Thus for true Break-Glass, one really needs a way to indicate that information is being withheld that could be accessed if Break-Glass was declared. This would indicate that for a normal request that the normal results were returned (Informational but suppressed).

FHIR 40

FHIR 40

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

Information is from the company websites or press materials: Caregiver Smart Solutions. These sensors monitor your loved ones’ activities and feed information to our app. category tags: smart home , IoT and home monitoring , aging in place. Small, non-intrusive sensors are placed discretely around the home.

Health Data 164

Health Data Digital Health Telehealth 164

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

By then, thorny questions about privacy, personalization, and patient-doctor voice communication will be closer to resolution. Healthcare providers are becoming interested in the use of voice technology to provide biomarkers – offering information from the sound of a person’s voice as a health status indicator.

Interoperability 87

Interoperability mHealth HIPAA Digital Health 87

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2019

Clearly this is a company with management issues – and someday will either fail (unlikely), be broken up , or be regulated , even in the US, which has for some unknown reason done nothing to date, unlike privacy actions taken in Europe. In fact, fake, overstated, or manipulated information is the lifeblood of the modern Internet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

A recent study of more than 50 COVID-19 apps globally found that most were vague about privacy protections on the data collected from consumers using these apps. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Beyond telehealth: the virtual trends that will transform healthcare Featured Decision Content:

Telehealth 213

Telehealth Digital Health Interoperability Public Health 213

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 2, 2018

Not a PDF file attachment, not a Word file, but a viewable (online) press release with links, kept under 1 page, that is found under your website category of PRESS, MEDIA or NEWS. 8) What's that category -- and is it part of a larger home ecosystem? Or it is not new, just repackaged under a new category (not monitoring, it's IoT!).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2019

Clearly this is a company with management issues – and someday will either fail (unlikely), be broken up , or be regulated , even in the US, which has for some unknown reason done nothing to date, unlike privacy actions taken in Europe. In fact, fake, overstated, or manipulated information is the lifeblood of the modern Internet.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

The app identifies design elements and appliances like refrigerators, sinks and stairs then provide additional information with specific “to-dos” or fixes to help make the home safer, more comfortable and a great fit." All operation is processed offline – without the need of Wi-Fi or a smartphone while ensuring data privacy."

mHealth 121

mHealth Digital Health Telemedicine Telehealth 121

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Not a PDF file, not a Word file, but a viewable (online) press release with links, kept under 1 page, that is found under your website category of PRESS, MEDIA or NEWS. 8) What's that product or service category, anyway? As with a new variant of sensor-based home monitoring , is this a category -- like smart home ?

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