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Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

The IoT technology and location sensors behind RTLS feature active-radio frequency identification (RFID) badges and tags to offer immediate enterprise visibility into the precise location of equipment, colleagues, or patients, while increasing workflow efficiencies.

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RFID: Increasing Patient Safety and Operational Efficiencies

Healthcare IT Today

Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers. With an RFID-driven automated management system, hospitals gain complete visibility into medication inventory.

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The Nursing Home Closure Debacle – does it help anyone?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Even for an aging family member with significant dementia and a family has limited assets to pay for (if they could find) home care? category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , aging in place , seniors and aging policy Even in homes that are inappropriate for people with disabilities and complex conditions?

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2020 rings in new decade at Penn Medicine, closes chapter of big change

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From my perspective, these are just a few of the factors that will shape the next decade: In the near term, Penn Medicine’s Information Services team is focusing our efforts on driving more value out of the technology assets in which we have made investments. Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Tech-enabled Home Care Redux? Do investors remember 2016?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Meanwhile the Hometeam remaining assets were absorbed into HT Health and renamed Vesta Health in 2020 , with a $30 million Series A round and a focus on the reimbursed Medicaid market. It’s a highly fragmented market of franchises, each with their own management, across the US. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care.

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Care options for seniors.tech included

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But families are still in a position of finding and then managing the care workers, even with agency assistance. Perhaps many years in assisted living consumed family assets and an elder law attorney helped with the move to a Medicaid-eligible nursing home ? . That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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Let’s talk about care options for seniors – shouldn’t technology be a part of care?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But families are still in a position of finding and then managing the care workers, even with agency assistance. Perhaps many years in assisted living consumed family assets and an elder law attorney helped with the move to a Medicaid-eligible nursing home ? . That may work for the most well-to-do seniors.

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