Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

Some folks think this is a consumer show, but that was the long-ago Consumer Electronics Show. GyroGear has developed the world’s most advanced hand tremor stabilizer, and to the best of our knowledge, the first mechanical gyroscope medical device. Anura MagicMirror is a desktop device with a 21.5-inch Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi. But all that is just a beginning – early January brings the Consumer Electronics Show and many more innovations that can help older adults with health, mobility, cognitive issues, and caregiving. Up ahead -- CES 2023.

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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? . Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. . Could training be more readily found?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

User experience non-design – it’s not just tech devices – consider the stove’s cockpit.’ Studying the screen plus button choices on a new Microwave, one wonders who tested this interface? Having a smart TV plus sound bar, streaming media player or variants, may have shrunk the number of devices in the basket. Do consumers want that?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

Or believing that a direct to consumer approach was affordable or scalable – before the broad adoption of social-media based marketing or the introduction of Conversational AI. Separate user interfaces from physical devices – making software portable across platforms. Or conducting focus groups, even less prevalent today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A pair of prescription devices typically sells for $2,000 to $8,000. that 48 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss (more than 400 million worldwide) and most do not have any hearing assistance devices. Consumers were beginning to be empowered through self-service testing and signs of OTC devices possibly on the way.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But they also have done more work on Amazon Hospitality in partnership with K4Connect (which has rolled out 10,000 Alexa devices to senior living communities). Today we are starting to take it for granted – that we can speak to devices and they will answer, even make the experience enjoyable and enabling it in cars.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit. Healthcare delivery is migrating away from the hospital.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The press releases for next week’s 2023 Consumer Electronics Show are stacking up. This was discussed earlier in the year – devices that were only compatible with 3G networks were being phased out. For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.),

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Boosting tech access to devices and broadband is a 2021 requirement. So much of the effort to create age-friendly technology is really about overcoming the design issues with mass market consumer technology. . The divide is both economic and social. Consider the barriers to actually doing much on the Internet using a new device.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Too time-consuming? We want to turn on a ‘voice first’ device and have it welcome – not abuse us. Match what you have with the daunting list of Alexa devices and the help identifying YOUR device -- or the relatively brief list of Google Nest ones. Okay, we deal with all this because we love to talk to devices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The failure of previous direct-to-consumer approaches underscored the fallacy of inventor-centric thinking that ‘if we create it, they will buy it from us’ or at least find it on Amazon. Device and app vendors must be capable of integration and extension. Technologies must be well-supported and intuitive.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future. One would believe this ubiquity of access might make us hopeful that we are now in the era of tech helping consumers of all ages, no matter what task or level of knowledge. Has the tech user experience substantially improved?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

Wearable devices make up an $81.5 According to Gartner’s January 2021 forecast , this was driven by increased consumer interest in tracking their health status during the pandemic (smart watches) and the growth of remote work (purchases and upgrades to headphones and ear-warn devices). billion global market in 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Add integration with voice capabilities like Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa and the ability to stream audio content directly to in-ear devices. But for the general consumer marketplace, there is some optimism about flip phones and the potential comeback. Standards for consumer tech benefit older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

This tech market is less about products specifically designed for older adults and more about smarter marketing of many consumer offerings that could be useful to them. We make intelligently designed, fully integrated platforms that move quality-conscious health and wellness consumers closer to compliance and optimal health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Is the healthcare consumer ready for voice assistants? Voice First technology – the ability to use natural language to speak to and be spoken to by devices and software – has become at least one mandatory user interface in every business and consumer interaction. Optimism in the healthcare ecosystem remains high.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

The device could be used to record video and audio without the knowledge of the people being recorded. High price: Google Glass was initially priced at $1,500, which was much more expensive than other wearable devices on the market. In 2015, Google discontinued the consumer version of Google Glass.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

This innovative technology allows users, including those with mobility impairments, to control devices such as phones, tablets, smart home devices, and wheelchairs through simple movements, revolutionizing the way they interact with technology and the world around them.” consumers in 2024.” Learn more. Concha Labs. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

But this is January, 2021, in the time of Covid-19 and the time of the all digital Consumer Electronics Show -- this time with at least 70,000 online attendees from around the world and the tech industry -- and so new companies are surfacing with technologies that will generate interest and even excitement during 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pajama-like clothing is the only way to consume the content vastness of this entirely online Consumer Electronics Show with 500 exhibits, 70,000 registered attendees, and 3 full days of sessions, many pre-recorded, some live. Laptops were hot (remember the Ultrabook?) Voice First and the Apple Watch had not emerged. iCardioGuard.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2022

Market acceleration – whether it is for self-driving vehicles or new forms of employee-less retail – is producing improvements faster than consumers can absorb them. Context will be retained across devices to enable ‘conversation’. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Has the future arrived for the technologists who invented Voice First and the broad market of consumers who bought and benefited, from the early days? The report predicted and soon in 2018 came to pass that voice devices , and even Virtual Concierges in senior living would become commonplace. Turn on the lights?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As consumers wear the underwear, sensors in Myant’s SKIIN brand fabric send data back to a corresponding app. The BalanceBelt is a Class 1 Medical Device wearable that uses haptic feedback to help patients suffering from severe balance disorders find their balance and regain their independence. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Smart home devices are dumb about tech support. It is just as well – younger device owners are struggling. According to Parks Associates, “Households with heads of household ages 35-44 are the most likely to experience technical issues with their devices.” The future of the smart home and older adult users has not quite arrived.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The failure of previous direct-to-consumer approache s underscored the fallacy of inventor-centric thinking that ‘if we create it, they will buy it from us’ or at least find it on Amazon. But what if it is a device that should fit into a Wi-Fi home network with other devices, a printer, a few voice devices, and maybe a camera?

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

The annual conference of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) convened this week, and I was grateful to attend and speak on the evolving retail health landscape yesterday. Gary looked back at that era, realizing his father’s understanding of consumer needs at retail. Scott rhetorically asked.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With the beginning of HIPAA-compliance, diagnostic capabilities based on voice, and increased personalization capability, Voice First technology promises to provide greater assistance to health professionals and a better experience for consumers at home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 7, 2019

Did something happen recently propelling sales up 51% that pushed consumers out the door to buy a wearable, like a fitness band or a smartwatch? Are you walking, running, swimming or doing an exercise that devices can detect as motion -- and even count, as with steps? But a GPS-enabled device can also be a lifesaver.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the Digital Health technology categories. . And they will be added to every feasible appliance, device, and vehicle. Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous. Sensor technology shrinks – and changes form.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Consumers are on board with telehealth , and engagement technologies like smartphones and tablets are offered through Medicare Advantage , plus a wave of other pandemic-related tactics and free offerings appeared. Thousands of smart speaker devices have been delivered to senior living communities.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

At the same time, the technology market presents growing complexity, worsening privacy issues, and interoperability limitations, while not effectively lowering the cost of access or the price of useful devices. Here are four updated premises from the 2019 Market Overview of Technology for Older Adults : 1. million unfilled jobs by 2026.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

For people with mild low vision, reading fatigue, reading difficulties including dyslexia, and for anyone who consumes large amounts of text. OrCam Read is a first-of-its-kind handheld device with a smart camera that seamlessly reads text from any printed surface or digital screen. Learn more at Moflin. Orcam Read. “ experience."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 12, 2018

The FDA then observes “ sound amplifiers for consumers with no hearing loss who want to make environmental sounds louder for recreational use.“ Retail stores, online websites offer PSAPs for buyers who adjust the device themselves – the which the FDA calls the ‘audio version of reading glasses.’ category tags: hearing loss.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2018

New scams appear and can be especially devastating – like the cell phone port-out scam (saying your phone was stolen and needs to be 'ported' to another device.) Not much – according to consumer advocates. So far, though, the burden is mostly on the consumer, with the best suggestion ‘white-listing’ those you want to hear from (really?)

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2019

Lacking access to smartphones, Internet, in-home broadband/WiFi cuts oldest out of access to modern telehealth, communication and engagement, in-home sensors, outside-home GPS, fall detection, and device integration with smartphones. Or are the devices still too difficult to use? They disappeared on devices because they could.

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