Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Amazon Alexa: They’re building a health and wellness team , and can list more than 1000 health and wellness skills , though only 13 pop up that are loosely related to older adults. Caring for children is moving right along – how about more for the elderly, who consume so much more healthcare?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last month, long-time colleague and friend Colin Hung interviewed me on the #HITMC broadcast to discuss a lovely recognition I’d received: HIT Advocate of the Year , a program highlighting various friends-in-the-field active in digital health, communications and marketing, sponsored by Medigy. Stay tuned, and stay well!

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 31, 2018

And in fact, a search on the Amazon site turns up many – but as for Amazon itself – well it is as stealth in intent as Google, only more so. There are differences for sure – benefits eligibility and national age-based programs: age 62+ for Social Security, 65+ for Medicare, and age 50+ eligibility for AARP discounts.

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mHealth Watch

JUNE 9, 2023

Some people even consume red raspberry fruit extract regularly for its antioxidants. Turmeric – Turmeric is well-known for its several health benefits. Dosage It is essential to consume one pill daily. The product is returnable to the manufacturer within 60 days of the purchase if a consumer does not witness any changes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

For all of the 'free' software where we are the product, many might appreciate a paid version in which the software is the product and users can go back to being, well, users. . But senior-friendly design and testing of general market consumer products (not just tech) is under the radar, if it is happening at all.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2018

With Careel back in charge after his two-year hiatus, those products will carry on, but Withings will also focus more on releasing products that have an obvious impact on health rather that the broader topic of wellness. “We And while Fitbit was in the “wellness and sports business, we were in the health business,” says Careel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. ” The health network also moved from having early adopters being the ones to choose consumer telemedicine to delivering telehealth virtually by default. Providing a safe workplace.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Through this program, medDigital developed medCrowd, a compliant messenger for health and care teams to work together more effectively and give the best care. Scheduling accuracy improved by 20% and an 80% reduction in phone tag was recorded.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Healthcare enterprises that rapidly built up virtual care through ready-to-deploy consumer technologies are looking closely at the suitability of the platforms for enterprise-level scaling. I discuss a few of these and their potential impact on healthcare consumer experiences. The future of telehealth seems assured.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

During this same time, we also launched a contact-tracing program to help identify those who may have been exposed to COVID-19 to prevent future spread. A cross-functional team across the health system came together to build the program quickly.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 16, 2021

That pair worked well with his TVlink unit – enabling him to hear the TV at the right volume, and his spouse to listen at the broadcast volume. On the other hand, Consumer Cellular sells 23 different Android phones – most of which support downloading apps – and likely the pairing with hearing aids may be straightforward.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And half of these decisions are not necessarily well-founded. " Well, do you? And on the consumer side, wouldn't it be nice if you had the ability to see not just what you're doing in that visit, but at the same time, in the same experience, access to "How am I doing on chronic condition management?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Biofourmis’ remote patient monitoring and AI-based analytics technology, Biovitals, provides personalized predictive care by leveraging active and passive data collected from clinical-grade patient wearables that continuously monitor more than 20 physiological parameters, as well as patient-captured data from a mobile app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

With user adoption at the forefront of the team's search, it became clear that Klara was one of the only solutions at the time that could deliver both the communication needs the team desired, as well as a superior user experience that would drive adoption, he said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

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. category tags: CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , vehicle/transportation technology-services , digital health , robotics. Not yet available. Learn more. Independa Health Hub.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 5, 2018

Morgan Healthcare Conference when Celgene acquired San Diego-based Impact Biomedicines and its JAK inhibitor program targeting myelofibrosis. In March, GlaxoSmithKline dropped $13 billion to acquire full control of a consumer health unit. The year started with a $7 billion bang at the J.P The deal will help open U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox.

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