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. The Core Kit.

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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. Anyone can give self-testing a try in the privacy of their own home.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo. The test is called the Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score. If patients don’t understand what the notes say, and the differential costs of treatment options, full-on health engagement remains elusive.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2022

New entrants should first form local partnerships to test communication and effectiveness before going national. Two-factor authentication will likely be required as part of all online apps, including financial and health-related services. Privacy and security features will be built into design of software and websites.

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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.“ That price includes a hearing test, fitting, initial batteries and more. And Consumer Reports calls them ‘hearing helpers.’ Consider that the terminology dance must mystify consumers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

Add to that, state-by-state, the National Guard is being brought in to disinfect nursing homes or assist with Covid-19 testing. This AHCA observation was that the revised Five Star system would cause a slip in ratings , which would lead to consumer confusion, etc., category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living. Most important?

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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 ? Digital health tech for providers and consumers, current status is bleak. We may have online access to our tests results – but only those that are from the same system.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The research report, Voice, Health, and Wellbeing 2020 has now launched and interviews are underway. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. What to make of all this? Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault when it crashed with a bus. in health care. Identity theft – costing consumers $16 billion in 2016. Yet consumers trust Amazon, sellers not so much. How does the writer know this? Consider these 41 hacks (through October 2017!)

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Here’s a test. 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? Transform senior technology products to be health-specific. The guidance was pointed, but was the point achieved?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. But for a disease free quality of life in their later years, they will they need to fix lifestyle and health issues that did not characterize their parents. Digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

What does it mean when offerings and consumers aren’t aligned? For older consumers and their families, the technology market and senior housing industry are two cases in point. Or creating a folding phone (without much testing) with a screen that breaks within days of announcement. Oh, yes, and it is an accessibility feature.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault when it crashed with a bus. Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' Do they transition into home care, home health care, or senior living, which can’t find enough workers? Into health care? Not a chance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

The FDA then observes that Personal Sound Amplification Products (PSAPs) are “ sound amplifiers for consumers with no hearing loss who want to make environmental sounds louder for recreational use.“ That price includes a hearing test, fitting, initial batteries and more. Recreational?

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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. They would get frustrated with connectivity issues, inputting information and testing the devices. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are a member of S4PM , perhaps it was at CES or HIMSS or Health 2.0 ” The event was sponsored in part by our own Consumer Reports who recruited me last June for a “patient activist” spot on its team for the Choosing Wisely campaign which has its own set of very similar aims. ( Part one of three ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. A brief background about myself and my practice: I am an occupational medicine physician working under a not-for-profit health care system. To test this assumption, I surveyed my patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

The corporate takeover of healthcare and the exodus of physicians from private practice into employed positions, combined with sub-par deployment of electronic health records and patient portals, has resulted in increasing patient and physician dissatisfaction with the current healthcare delivery model, he contended. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at Kno2 , has spent her career in healthcare IT, so it’s very meaningful to hear her speak of Kno2’s intention to become a designated QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) under the TEFCA, asserting, “This is a turning point”. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Claus Jensen, chief innovation officer at Teladoc Health, says the question isn't just about what other kinds of healthcare can be made virtual. It's also about using clinical, technical and logistical tools to help patients make the best health decisions. What happened last time I saw a mental health provider?"

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Chilmark Research

JULY 13, 2015

It’s not every day that health-related news from Google gets buried, but recent headlines about the Supreme Court upholding a key provision of the Affordable Care Act and the nation’s largest insurers playing matchmaker seem to have relegated Google’s planned health-tracking wristband to the proverbial back page of the Internet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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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 18, 2019

Soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. Some industries and consumers (think home care) were not ready for 'if we build it, they will come'. Is this a home health care service or a companion care service? Let's not disappoint them.

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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. Who needs a COVID-19 test? How good are tests?

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