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Rock Health H1 2023 Funding Recap

Digital Health Wire

Rock Health’s H1 2023 digital health funding report confirmed the writing on the wall. Here’s the first half of the year by the numbers: US digital health funding totaled $6.1B Here’s the first half of the year by the numbers: US digital health funding totaled $6.1B across 244 rounds ($24.8M average) Q2 contributed only $2.5B

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PEW: 25% of seniors age 65+ are not online. That's a problem.

Aging in Place Technology Watch

but only updated through 2019. Instead, local TV stations could run nationally funded (or AARP-funded) promotions about a number to call to obtain must-have discounted Internet access. Local newspapers could feature ads funded by state governments or agencies. Like the American Community Survey? Crazy, huh?

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Health IT implementation best practices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And that will only change in the months and years ahead as more startups get funded, proofs-of-concept demonstrate success and pilot programs take flight into production environments. by Bill Siwicki March 07, 2019. by Bill Siwicki February 27, 2019. by Bill Siwicki March 14, 2019. by Bill Siwicki March 20, 2019.

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Four Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from February 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This followed late-year 2020 activity, including the $10 million in funding for tech training company GetSetUp. And note the $18 million of funding for Papa from Comcast Ventures to combat social isolation in older adults and launch tech-enabled health offering called Papa Health.

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Technology non-adoption of the oldest – it’s a bug, not a feature

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This non-adoption, despite White House reports recommending products be made more appropriate to boost adoption, first in the PCAST report of 2016, and then again in 2019. Consider the White House 2016 and White House 2019 reports on use of technology by older adults. Or they pay for 1-1 sessions.

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Five Health and Aging Blog Posts from August 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant market (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) But according to a late 2019 AARP survey , only 20% of the 50+ population use voice assistants – and for the 70+, only 12%. as penetrating one third of the US population – 111.8

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Real Seniors lack essential technology – who will make it happen in 2019?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Here are questions to ponder moving into 2019 for those whose job, business, or non-profit organization is explicitly to help seniors go online (you know who you are): For seniors, why is there a problem with non-use? Senior centers are partially funded by the Older Americans Act – which also provides Meals on Wheels.