Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

Two weeks ago, VIVE in Los Angeles , "The Only Digital Health Event Focused on You" was attended by 8000 people there to hear 300 speakers on topics of interest to payers, providers, and those interested in consumer health. Consider the recent big healthcare events. HIMSS this week – the website says it best: Now HIMSS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Given the early user base of ChatGPT (optimizing language models for dialogue), 100 million within the first few months, clearly developers, investors, and consumers agree. Beginning a new report -- The Future of AI and Older Adults - thoughts welcome] category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , baby boomers

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2014, AARP’s Health Innovation @50+ sponsored a report, Challenging Innovators: Matching Offerings to the Needs of Older Adults. 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.

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Digital Health Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

The round brings DexCare’s total funding to $146M as it looks to help health systems attract new patients, capture more downstream revenue, and control costs to fuel growth. The platform matches patients to best-fit providers, settings, and care modalities, then facilitates seamless appointment booking.

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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. . Fifty-three million Americans are providing care to someone with health or functional needs – in short, they are family caregivers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Stories about three fashion brands have me thinking about women and their health economics. I first read about Universal Thread on The Mighty website , which is a community of over 1 million people interested in connecting on health and disabilities. Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.”

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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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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. Learn more at Aloe Care Health. Handsfree Health. Learn more at HandsFree Health. Based in New York, Aloe Care was created by caregivers for caregivers.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

Two-factor authentication will likely be required as part of all online apps, including financial and health-related services. 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.

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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. Patient engagement and behavior change platform CareCognitics is now available on the athenahealth Marketplace. News and Studies.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2022

Unlike niche hardware and software for seniors, basic Voice First platforms and software will change rapidly and without disruption for users – accompanied by a ‘What’s New’ weekly email and a few suggestions on new tricks to try – but the changes behind the front-facing features will make the most difference.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Our technology platform allows any caregiver to easily create and share content that builds or maintains independence and share that content with their care team and anyone else on the MapHabit platform. consumers in 2024.” category tags: AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline , robotics , hearables/hearing technology

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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.

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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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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

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Include the larger population of service providers, not just its own members, in its 'consumer' online search for services , for another. The show also had a Startup Garage– here are five companies from that section (material from their websites): Keenly Health. Learn more at Keenly Health. Learn more at MyFrontPageStory.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

Consider: Detecting health conditions by voice. Healthcare providers are becoming interested in the use of voice technology to provide biomarkers – offering information from the sound of a person’s voice as a health status indicator. Excerpt from Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 report published in January 2020.]. .

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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

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. Learn more at Medacube.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Two-factor authentication will likely be required as part of all online apps, including financial and health-related services. 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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

With smaller investment that year, it's good to see that Envoy (concierge service for independent living), Kindly Care (home care agency), Caremerge (home care platform), and Seniorlink (care coordination) are all in their same businesses from 2016 – and others from the period like Envoy and CareLinx received additional investment and moved forward.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Among the 30 interviewees across 28 organizations, including Microsoft, AARP, Best Buy Health, Home Instead, and the Consumer Technology Association, here are a few of the themes that emerged from these conversations: Connection matters – tech connectivity is a pre-requisite.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

First, I focus my days on learning how people make health choices and decisions in real-time. Just as the issues and tensions of health equity and systemic racism exist all the time, the problem of finding trusted evidence-informed guidance heightens during this pandemic. Tagging is further search refinement. Minutes to consume.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

The point of the pixel was to help in tracking consumer responses to advertising. Like many privacy violations and data misuse on the Internet, consumers are usually powerless other than voting with our feet. category tags: Home Care , Mobile PERS , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , social media.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

It seems reasonable that a device correctly pre-loaded with doses either at the pharmacy, by a home health worker or a nurse in senior living would improve accuracy of dosages. Here are five, in alphabetical order with content from vendors: Hero Health. RxPense is a fully connected, IoT home health hub for today’s aging population.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there.

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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

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 5, 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? One of these was the Longevity Health & Innovation Summit , which featured numerous longevity and technology experts as well as a pitch challenge.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything and Amazon voice devices everywhere. Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 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. category tags: cell phones, smartphones , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Read more here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Fewer software platforms, but new and more interesting offerings. Second, the proliferation of gadget introductions targeting seniors appears to have slowed down, and the use of standard platforms (smartphones, tablets, computers, smart speakers and smart watches) ramped up. Fewer senior-specific hardware items. Feb, 2018).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

EveryDose is a digital health company committed to improving medication adherence through best-in-class technology. Independa Health Hub. The Independa Health Hub enables new consumer LG smart TVs to help users care for family members remotely or assist older adults to be more independent. Not yet available. Learn 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." Surveys by Voice is the only survey platform designed specifically for VOICE. Learn more at Bond.Ai. Speak2Software. Learn more at Speak2Software. SurveyLine.

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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. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

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