tag apple-healthcare-market 
Aging in Place Technology Watch
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
When Apple speaks, a puzzled market listens. When Apple announces, industries listen. Healthcare observers are concerned that false positives from ECG readings could propel people unnecessarily to already-overloaded Emergency Rooms. To date, the Apple Watch may have been of greatest interest to 40 year old males.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MARCH 29, 2022
Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ Otherwise the market has moved on. When Apple Watch launched in 2015 – pendant PERS (slowly) saw the future.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 8, 2021
Paddy Padmanabhan The markets are buzzing with the latest Rock Health report on funding for digital health in the first half of 2021. By all indications, the digital transformation of healthcare is fully underway and it's time to party like it's 1999. The 'problem of plenty' for healthcare organizations.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 17, 2023
The more things change in the PERS/medical alert industry… Long ago (10 years, to be exact), a survey report plus future market predictions was published. Along came wrist-worn fitness devices like Fitbits and Apple Watches, which by 2018 had introduced Fall Detection for older adults linked to profiles in Apple Health.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MARCH 4, 2021
In years past, getting older adults online was a lower priority for senior advocates, social service agencies or healthcare organizations. Since the introduction of the Apple Watch in 2014 and its subsequent sales of more than 33 million (as of 2020), Apple has been the dominant player in the US market.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
DECEMBER 30, 2020
But there was also an awakening to the significance of aging in place , the investment category of older adults , the market power of older adults , including the 65+ population of 54 million. All that and more make up the new entrants in the 2021 Market Overview of Technology for Aging, to be published by the week of January 11.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Interestingly, healthcare data breaches are largely caused by insiders and cost $400+ per user data record breached. So Optum acquires DaVita Medical Group and Humana acquires Kindred Healthcare. When Apple speaks, a puzzled market listens. When Apple announces, industries crane their necks to hear.
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