Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | August 03, 2023 News Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM Remote patient monitoring has helped the health system boost patient engagement, improve patient.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Yesterday was a big day that should have happened several years ago. If this were any other health innovation, it would have been matched to need years ago. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , hearing loss , baby boomers. Consider that this was first proposed in 2017!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

billion – or one quarter of the $95 billion home health market. 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. Are investors mulling that realistically when they pour in big sums?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Layla McCay ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an old proverb proving true as health services across the world race to adapt to manage the challenges of the current coronavirus pandemic. During the coronavirus pandemic, digital innovation and transformation is arriving at pace in health systems in the UK and beyond.

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Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Atropos Health is a tough company to pin down with a short intro. The Atropos Evidence Platform enables the magic on the front end, serving as a foundation of insights from over 160M de-identified patient records and a partner network that includes big names like Mayo Clinic and Clarify.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Besides these invisible upgrades, the voice assistant technology has been continually improving – and if the user could be made aware of those improvements (a BIG IF), they might find them to be very useful. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living.

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APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

You may have read this depressing article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the number of people stuck in hospitals with no place to go because there are no nursing homes to take them – which is the status in the UK’s the National Health System (NHS). That was an embarrassment in the UK – and this is a scandal in the US.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. A new, deep report from the OECD, Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies , spells out the many domains of experience that, together, bolster our whole health as we grow from child to adult.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI. And this updated information will ideally be available to other medical providers, not to mention senior and home health care companies that will soon see the discharged patient.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

They could worry about a too-big house they can’t sell.A category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection But wait… What if aging in place is media-fueled, but bad long-term for many (most) people? What could go wrong? They look forward to eating meals with others, served by others.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The first big event, CES 2023, brought multiple startups and stalwarts to Las Vegas. Ironically, it was not the big tech news of the month – eclipsed by an OpenAI introduction that had appeared in November, but was suddenly noticed – first in December in the media. 2023 begins with so many announcements, so little time.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday/Sunday edition featured a big story on the economic force of women in the summer of 2023, termed “the women’s multiplier effect” — that women’s spending is a powerful force in the U.S. economy (and as it turns out, in Sweden’s economy as well).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It’s already been a big year for new Amazon offerings that could benefit older people. This past year, the firm added 80,000 health-related terms to help answer consumer questions. It is not unreasonable that we will someday be able to ask questions about our own specific health issues, documented in our actual health record.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. By Bill Siwicki | August 23, 2023 News Health system execs bullish on generative AI, but still lack strategy As they grapple with rising costs, three in four C-suite leaders say recent artificial intelligence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. "Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' This represents a big opportunity for innovation. David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI. from very small to very big. announces the first-of-its-kind smart technology for the millions of people providing personal care to family members, especially those facing health challenges.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

from very small to very big. category tags: senior living , healthcare , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health Begun in 2012 through the efforts of Katy Fike and Stephen Johnston. The goal: address the biggest challenges and opportunities in aging. In 2021, Aging 2.0, Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems saw dramatic spikes in virtual visits and telehealth adoption in the patient population. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country in the first few months of the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Information Services achievements that I am most thankful for at my organization include these key items: First, I’m thankful that we successfully implemented our integrated electronic health record. Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

Digital Health is in its bubble of $8.1 of venture capital investment , including the big money ( $115 million to date ) that has gone to just one company. They represent a large proportion of health care spending (including tech like the $3 billion PERS market ), and they represent both caregiver and care recipient in that market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers? Silver Cloud is a behavioural health company that has developed digital care models equivalent to face-to-face encounters.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The big five hearing aid manufacturers will once again remake and remarket themselves, their brands and pricing to fit the new rule. What’s the big deal? Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50.5% -- during the same period." Yesterday was a big day that should have happened several years ago.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. health citizens into hygiene shoppers. “H” is for hand-washing. “I” is for Italy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Big tech revealed growing interest in older adults and investors saw the potential in firms like Papa, which provides (reimbursed) varied assistance to older adults. And maybe the big deal starts now – the oldest baby boomers turn 76, which should trigger even more investment in 2022 and beyond.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP. Just saying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Expect more announcements moving forward, but matching reimbursement for telehealth with in-person visits was a big deal. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. This past week offers updates to services, policy, and practice. If not now, when?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

By now, and for most, no big deal, you may know that the Series 4 watch has fall detection. And perhaps you have also turned on the Health app (somewhere) and entered your birthdate. category tags: wearables, smart watch. Consider the Apple Watch fall detection age default. Still with me? Still with me?

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JANUARY 7, 2019

She tagged a number of other members (and non). I know and respect Nosta from his days creating a LinkedIn Digital Health group with a zillion members, so I wasn’t surprised to see his perspective. Today, outgoing SPM board members Peter Elias and I were among those tagged. Research and data didn’t exist.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Investors continue to salivate over health tech. billion in Digital Health ( which means whatever you want it to mean.) Yes that is vertical integration in the continuum of care – specifically for health services to elderly Medicare recipients. category tags: Aging technology , Aging , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The show also had a Startup Garage– here are five companies from that section (material from their websites): Keenly Health. Using state-of-the-art Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar, Keenly Health intelligently monitors vital signs and patient activities to provide a distinctive window into a resident’s current and future health state.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Consumer Electronics Show was smaller in size, but big in tech futures. Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology.

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