Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 17, 2024

Burying useful functions in Accessibility menus – when all users should know about those options. Did you know that closed captioning is an Accessibility, not General setting? category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones , Television/Smart TV , AgeTech

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Empowering patients with easy-access remote monitoring Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Accessing the patient anytime, anywhere Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: EMEA Sponsor: Philips Right Now: Primary topic: Patient Engagement.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2024

We will expect that our profile will drive technology access. Facial recognition profiles today enable easy device access and authentication. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smart home , smartphones, cellphones , Television/Smart TV , wearables, smart watch In the future their use will be expanded.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

It is likely that technology enablement and access will be components of each of the initiatives as they evolve. category tags: caregivers , Family caregivers , Home Care , computers, broadband, and social networking Medicaid Home Care Services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2024

Today’s accessibility features on smartphones, though difficult to find, are good examples of software-based customizations that can match a new requirement with an existing device. Certainly access has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. So that’s good.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2019

Primary topic: Innovation Pulse Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: ORCHA provides health app awareness, access, trust Featured Decision Content:

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This device allows pets safe and controlled access to the outdoors using facial recognition or RFID tags. It can identify individual bird species, recognize feeding patterns, and even send owners notifications when feathered friends visit. For more mobile companions, the Pawport smart pet door unlocks a new level of freedom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It's not just caregivers and clinicians who have had to master the new modality for delivering care; healthcare consumers and their extended network of family and friends now have to adapt to telehealth as a new normal in accessing and receiving care. Who is my telehealth consumer? Where does my consumer live?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2022

For all three, broadband access and smartphone ownership and use is growing. Good news -- seventy-six percent of the 65+ population as of 2020 has access to broadband. Figure 1 A look at regions stranded by geography -- without technology access. Computers and broadband deliver access. We know why. Attachment Size.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Will all devices default to ‘Accessibility’ and security options that you must undo, rather than the other way around? . On the flip side, tech innovators should offer their own Accessibility options or Easy Mode – defaults or a quick set of options that can be expanded, or set up through remote configuration by family for in-home tech.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2023

The following domains will add AI (via voice or other interaction modes) to services, including: Health management of self-care, enabling conversational access. category tags: AI and machine learning , chatbots , Conversational and generative AI See the new Report The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 Your additional examples welcome!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Achieve health equity. Address social determinants of health.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2021

While the rate of increase year-on-year since then has slowed, the $300,000 price-tag for retiree health care costs is a huge number few Americans have saved for. I’ve tracked this survey for over a decade here on Health Populi, and updated the annual chart shown here to reflect a $40,000 increase in retiree costs since 2016.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

For the 2024 Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth will accept proposals in the following categories: Hardware Accelerated AI, Generative AI, Tech Led Innovations, Mobile Health Apps, Healthcare Accessibility, and Social Change Solutions. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. CharmHealth goes beyond providing just funding or mentorship to winners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Blockchain-enabled EHR is giving refugees access to healthcare Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Jitterbug phone addressed the problem that cell phones weren’t too friendly, and the concept of ubiquitous access to the Internet through easy-to-use browsers was a glint in the innovator eye. As of 2019, there were still at least 265,000 people in the US using dial-up to access the Internet at home.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

A recent survey conducted by 9amHealth found that 48% of Americans are on or want to be on a GLP-1 medication, and a staggering 20% would even change their jobs to get access to coverage for the drugs. Their members receive personalized care plans, prescription delivery, at-home lab tests, and unlimited specialist access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

You can read about inclusive design , sometimes called design-for-all , accessible design, and universal design. Consider accessible design – where does it fit in the design world? Boost interest in inclusive design (versus ‘accessible’) concepts. None of these concepts are specific to designing for inclusion of aging adults.

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Clear Arch Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

The hope and objective being that this move would enable DSCHC to actively address challenges to rural healthcare and social determinants of health (SDoH) — such as financial constraints, transportation impediments, and a scarcity of health care resources — to expand healthcare access for patients in need. citizens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

"Infection concerns drive us to be creative with the use of remote options to provide services, and there are access and supply issues for necessary IT tools just as there are for clinical infection control supplies." Assess how your organization can be nimble with granting access to systems and sites in emergencies.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 14, 2023

There is a security tag available in the HL7 ValueSets for Security tagging. I use this tag in the Implementation Guides that I write to distinguish the examples I provide. I also expect that this tag is a clear flag to someone that might copy/paste these examples and pass them off as real data.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

actual Classroom : January 17 afternoon at the HL7 Workgroup meeting in Vegas This will be a refreshed version of the Tutorial I have given mostly annually to HL7.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 30, 2024

Furthermore, its cost-effectiveness ensures accessibility, offering a viable alternative to conventional methods that often come with hefty price tags. What sets HapSense apart is its remarkable efficiency, speeding up product analysis by up to 10 times when compared to traditional skin-testing panels.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Also for sure, the use of healthcare portals has seen increased penetration – in 2020, 60% of patients in the US were offered access to a portal, and 40% accessed their records through it. . category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , SNF , wearables , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To She spoke out to help others on how to fight for a PET scan, how to get your patient data when denied access, and how to advocate for yourself, among other self-taught and peer-to-peer honed skills.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

Accessibility and usability – who knew they were different? However, even with the amendments, the job of making locations accessible to those with disabilities, including wheelchairs, left much to be desired, as the AXS map initiative demonstrates. The crowd-sourced map continues to update accessible locations around the world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. They are increasingly motivated and will strive to ramp up efforts to deliver a greater degree of access than the numbers show today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Today there are numerous programs to subsidize access, and smartphone penetration has exceeded 92%. QR code to access programs for performances. Certainly ccess has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. and ‘where are the programs?’ question to the ushers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Nor are base platforms for accessing care, services and information distributed to or accessible by all U.S. Grateful that #HIMSS23 will be convening some sessions on issues that address some of these challenges.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 14, 2021

Let’s assume that many are now concerned that older adults may have missed vaccine sign-up opportunities without access to the Internet. So it would not be guessing to assume that those lacking broadband access are 100% overlapped with the Pew non-users of the Internet. That was built on 2020 US Census estimates. Crazy, huh?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

The lack of standardization of electronic records has been a major impediment to AI access and accuracy of retrieved information or assessment. Further, EHR technology lock-in by vendors, according to some, may be a limitation to patient information access and health system innovation. Escalating the risk of older adult scams.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The user interface on smartphones and tablets has become more intuitive and voice-enabled – reducing the skill required to access technology. category tags: AgeTech , smartphones , robotics , AI and machine learning , VR/AR technology. You must take that upgrade, now!”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Long ago, in a world far, far, away – it was easy for the oldest to say that they don’t see the benefit in technology, Internet access or other devices. And do we mean ‘Digital Divide’ – or do we really mean Internet Access Divide? Let's get real: Internet access is the lifeblood of connection. That was pre-pandemic of course.

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Telehealth 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What about those offline older adults who lack high speed access? The report recommended that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should provide a ‘Broadband Nutrition Label’ to help consumers shop – and for the oldest and disconnected, help their adult children and service providers shop for high speed internet access.

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Mental health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

“Too complicated, too many steps to set up devices, tech seems have been created for younger people, not user friendly, complicated processes for accessing websites, terms are not defined, jargon and symbols can be confusing, too many assumptions, users must teach themselves about platform changes.”

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