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Costly specialty drugs drive higher spending on provider-administered treatments, study finds 

FierceHealthIT

Spending per member in commercial plans on medical pharmacy drugs increased by nearly 20% between 2016 and 2017, due in part to the growing number of emerging therapies with high price tags.

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Challenging Innovators to Design for Older Adults: 2014 -2024

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Identify partnerships early (before launching) that can help propel adoption and long-term success, whether commercially or with non-profits. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones Separate user interfaces from physical devices – making software portable across platforms.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

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 Her over-arching objective is to scale and sustain change in life sciences that brings the patient voice to research and commercialization for life-saving products.

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Scam innovation -- moving faster than the speed of regulation

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This weekend exposed a conflict at OpenAI , the November 22, 2022 bringer of ChatGPT , between the board that wants to develop AI for good and perhaps another view, AI for commercial profit. category tags: Scams -- all types , social media , computers, broadband, and social networking , AgeTech Older adults.

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Fall detection -- does the PERS industry detect market changes?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

LifeAlert’s commercials have long set the gloomy tone for the industry. See latest report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 ] category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection Room-based monitoring? Yelling "Help" to a Smart Speaker ? Having a panic button connected to Alexa ?

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Hearing aid pricing and weak insurance – older adults lose out

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Which of course has led to the effort to sell hearing aids directly to consumer (remember that commercial?) category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , seniors and aging policy. Why isn’t that true of hearing aids? despite lobbying efforts funded by hearing aid manufacturer Starkey.

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Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Part of its three-pillar approach to modernization, VA is leveraging innovative technologies, both in-house and commercial off-the-shelf solutions, to provide Veterans with personalized medical care that addresses their individual needs, and the results for Veterans and their families are amazing. Department for Veterans Affairs.

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