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. People who use the service have 24/7 access to support, including a professional emergency response team and a family app for optimal care collaboration. EnvoyatHome.

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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. This product is a remote activity monitoring app for seniors. Laptops were hot (remember the Ultrabook?)

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. . Voice interfaces will migrate to be expected infrastructure in smart displays and apps, added to every feasible appliance, device, and vehicle.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Myant Health. They developed smart underwear that could become one of the most reliable and effective ways to detect and prevent health issues. As consumers wear the underwear, sensors in Myant’s SKIIN brand fabric send data back to a corresponding app. Sensoria Health. " Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

AI will likely be part of the next generation of user interfaces for all types of interactions – including health questions. You probably didn’t notice the consumerization and commoditization of this variant of AI. But there is a microphone on every app today, enabling us to speak versus typing.

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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? Voice First implementations did not follow you outside your home unless it was through the smart phone app you carried into the car. Is voice first indistinguishable from magic?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

For safety-oriented apps and sites that include the role of the senior, it’s critical to verify identify among provider and user roles. Two-factor authentication will likely be required as part of all online apps, including financial and health-related services. Technologies must be well-supported and intuitive.

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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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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. . Voice interfaces will be expected in smart displays and apps. Smart displays and voice first interfaces will be ubiquitous. Hearing technology markets will be further disrupted in 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It is dumb not to report complaints about misleading advertising, and so older consumers are doing just that , with 74% reporting unsolicited calls among other inappropriate marketing messages. Imagine if that same theory could be applied to young people on their first job choosing between health plan choices offered by their employer.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This past week, Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Starkey’s Livio AI hearing aids have the capability to detect falls, track and analyze activity – combining with a smartphone (Android) app or i Phone for real-time adjustments based on changes in environment and preference. Consumers want self-service in all aspects of their lives – and hearing aids are no different.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

Health-related technology adoption. Is telehealth done, long live healthcare? McKinsey consumer sentiments research indicates 35% of home healthcare visits post-COVID could become virtual visits, using remote care technologies that will be HIPAA compliant, noting that three-fourths of consumers surveyed are interested.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What technologies can help mitigate this growing labor crisis in the senior care (home care, home health care, senior living, long-term-care) services market? category tags: AI and machine learning , hearables/hearing technology , fall prevention, fall detection , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants. AT THE EDGE: Alert without Wi-Fi.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. Experts also see the trend in self-care for all types of health concerns now includes hearing loss. Furthermore, wearing hearing aids has been linked to fewer hospital visits.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nomo Smart Care , a consumer kit for family caregivers. announces the first-of-its-kind smart technology for the millions of people providing personal care to family members, especially those facing health challenges. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

So how safe are self-driving cars for us, those pesky consumers who are also the victims of this tech for tech's sake ? Facebook suspended 200 apps today that may have collected boatloads of user data. What apps? Digital health tech for providers and consumers, current status is bleak.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

onsider the healthcare experiences we have endured – it’s a good time to consider a new way to interact with the health system. From a technology perspective, what is each players doing to help us use our voice to have a better health and patient engagement experience ? Are any of these initiatives tuned to the needs of older adults?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Haleon is using the the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide more detailed labels on more than 1,500 of its consumer health products.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 7, 2019

How do wearables contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults? 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? category tags: wearables, smart watch , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

As with other market segments, the hearing health market saw the opportunity to promote their teleaudiology (or tele-audiology ) services for those who already own telehealth-capable hearing aids that may need adjustment. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , social isolation , covid-19 , Aging, ageism.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Can you look at a list, for example, of technologies that vendor websites claim are aimed at older adults and their caregivers -- and substitute younger beneficiaries or health care recipients? We can tell that app stores and search engines think they know what is meant by ‘senior-specific’. Here’s a test. Thoughts welcome!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

Today, perhaps due to pending boomer bulge, innovators and their funders may be having a somewhat easier time, at least in some market categories – health, home care, transportation come to mind. ReemoHealth Remote Mobile Health Platform. Learn more at Reemo Health. Learn more at Oticon.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2009, there were specialized email services that converted an online message into paper form; WiFi in seniors’ homes or senior living residences was rare; the mobile PERS offerings were just a concept; the iPad had not been announced; Digital Health was three years away; and Voice First offerings would not appear for another five years.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 17, 2019

The next quote sounds a bit ageist, if likely true: "As for consumers, as with most technology, the younger you are the more likely it will be that you are aware of and can accurately describe what FinTech is." Smartphone apps dominate the FinTech world and Apple Pay (or its Android cousins) may be the most widely known FinTech tool.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

What Facebook’s breach will cost consumers – no one knows yet, but with that volume, it can’t be good news for users. Here are four blog posts from September 2018: Investors continue to salivate over health tech. billion invested in Digital Health ( which means whatever you want it to mean.) So the first half of 2018 saw $3.4

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 16, 2018

First a dabble with the now departed Wellcore in 2011 – clearly the time was not right – the oldest baby boomer turned 72 in 2018, but at 65 in 2010, consumers could not comprehend the utility of a wearable fall detector. In 2018, it began loud hints about the opportunity in health technologies and the elderly.

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Health Technology 59

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 30, 2019

The tool is supposed to help banks and lenders better market appropriate services to potential customers and nudging consumers to improve their financial health." category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Learn more at Bond.Ai. Speak2Software.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This week is the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society, and I’ll be covering it on behalf of the Center for Total Health blog. We are sharing mobile health innovations and apps, and we’re talking about the consumer side of health IT.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK. of doctors and nurses own a smartphone, and critically around 35% of them use web-based messaging apps to discuss patient care and send clinical information on a regular basis.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' The consumer has loved the convenience of Uber and its app – which is where this all started -- so too will self-driving hype fit into the media-ready recipe of convenience (no need to own a car!), Into health care? Not a chance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Interestingly in a later survey, those with Amazon Echo or Google Home devices and apps used their smartphones less. Here are the most-read blog posts from 2018 – take another look if you missed them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. CareMount also experienced some difficulties with app access from an audio/visual perspective. " Dr. Lisa R.

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