Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One in two U.S.

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Digital Health Medicare Telehealth healthcare technology 195

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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HIPAA Health Data Health Information Digital Health 156

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve. Strategically speaking.

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Telehealth Public Health Mental health eHealth 175

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care is now available nationwide. Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. .

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Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 131

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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EHR EMR Telehealth Nursing 103

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations. Here is where we were on technology adoption at the start of the pandemic, and the wave of telehealth interest heated up.

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Remote care Telehealth HIPAA Medicare 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Reimbursement of technology was a key policy change in 2020 that fueled adoption and investment in telehealth. That change super-charged growth in telehealth-related companies that had been growing incrementally. Telehealth becomes an expectation – no longer just a future. The total of 34.5

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Remote care Telehealth Medicare Primary Care 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 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. Fast forward to 2021.

Health Technology 88

Health Technology Telehealth 88

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. More to follow in January 2020]. .

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mHealth HIPAA Healthcare Innovation EHR 100

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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Health Technology Remote care HIPAA Telehealth 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The HandsFree Health executive team brings more than 150 years of healthcare experience to make managing health more convenient for consumers, employers, health plans and hospital systems.” Each tag contains a unique QR code and matching alphanumeric code. Learn more at HandsFree Health. Learn more at eTagz.

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Telecare mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This past year, the firm added 80,000 health-related terms to help answer consumer questions. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. And this week, it extended its reach into prescription drugs, built on its PillPack acquisition, to create Amazon Pharmacy. .

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HIPAA Digital Health Telehealth 164

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.

mHealth 133

mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 133

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late. 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.

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Nursing Telehealth Medicare Digital Health 95

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? category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Has the future arrived in the world of seniors, senior housing, home care?

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Telehealth 158

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. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Context will be retained across devices to enable ‘conversation’.

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Telehealth 146

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

As 2023 began, tech vendors used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch a gaggle of gadgets, not solutions, to mitigate life barriers from hearing loss to limited mobility. In 2022, most Medicare Advantage plans offered telehealth as a visit option, along with hearing, vision, and dental services. Health and wellness.

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Medicare Telehealth Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care service is now available nationwide. Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the Digital Health technology categories. .

Remote care 75

Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Consider this understatement from Jennifer Kent of Parks: "Consumers clearly desire a self-help approach first but need more effective tools to solve the problems on their own." And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

And it became increasingly likely that CMS would make telehealth access for older adults permanent. During the pandemic, telehealth use grew sharply in the care of older adults, enabled by CMS reimbursement changes that likely will be permanent. Half of those aged 75+ and one-third of the 65+ have hearing loss.

Health Technology 91

Health Technology Telehealth Medicare 91

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

At the end of April, ninety million US adults were estimated to own smart speakers , one-third of consumers. Consider the rise of telehealth , but also consider the wave of ageism that surfaced, accentuating and predicting further isolation of older adults. as penetrating one third of the US population – 111.8

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Remote care Telehealth Patient Experience Nursing 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Perhaps many years in assisted living consumed family assets and an elder law attorney helped with the move to a Medicaid-eligible nursing home ? . category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). No matter where older adults live, technology capability matters.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 150

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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HIPAA Nursing Telehealth 141

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Perhaps many years in assisted living consumed family assets and an elder law attorney helped with the move to a Medicaid-eligible nursing home ? . category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , Home Care , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). No matter where older adults live, technology capability matters.

Nursing 125

Nursing Medicare Telehealth 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nomo Smart Care , a consumer kit for family caregivers. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Louisville ownership has transformed both its members and sponsorship -- senior living, skilled nursing, healthcare, insurers. Nomo International, Inc.

Health Technology 75

Health Technology Nursing Telehealth 75

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. As for consumers, 82% do not use telehealth, explaining why patient depart hospitals with CDs of the medical record.

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mHealth Digital Health Interoperability Telehealth 67

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Splinters in the relationship can also begin remotely, brought about by frustrating telehealth systems. AI-software automates and helps guide the telehealth tasks required to build, strengthen, and expand the patient-provider relationship. Patients who are satisfied with their telehealth experiences are more likely to remain loyal.

Telehealth 66

Telehealth EHR Patient Experience HIPAA 66

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. 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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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Primary Care 166

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Caring for children is moving right along – how about more for the elderly, who consume so much more healthcare? category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology. Google Actions/Assistant: Google is already perceived by some as better at answering questions via Google Assistant.

mHealth 83

mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 83

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

mHealth 69

mHealth Telehealth Medicare Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

Consider the emerging general consumer technology market. Telehealth got its first big workout with veterans in 2007. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , PERS , social media , cell phones, smartphones. Google’s IPO was in 2004 and Facebook (coincidentally) emerged that year.

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Telehealth 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

Besides further cementing consumer commitment to support aging at home, 2018 demonstrated that tech-enabled home care offerings may again prove useful despite over-heated investment that culminated in an unprecedented $200 million of failed , bungled, or pivoted home care startups – leaving the traditional home care industry largely unchanged.

mHealth 108

mHealth Interoperability Medicare Digital Health 108

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. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , cell phones, smartphones.

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Telehealth 96

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

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 107

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

Consumer healthcare literacy concerns (“what’s a formulary?”) category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health. Health tech and service providers want to speak – at least a little. led insurer Cigna in March 2018 to launch Answers by Cigna.

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mHealth Digital Health HIPAA Telehealth 78

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Congress, government agencies, presidential candidates, consumers and the industry itself talk about the need to lower healthcare costs, but what does this entail? Telehealth helps Mayo Clinic neonatologists better treat newborns in emergencies. " News. by Mike Miliard September 23, 2019. by Bill Siwicki January 16, 2019.

Healthcare IT 83

Healthcare IT EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability 83

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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Primary Care Telecare Mental health Interoperability 158