Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. 9amHealth is addressing this challenge by providing affordable cardiometabolic care at scale and helping to manage the rising costs of GLP-1s for both patients and employers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022. Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. Demand and costs are up, and availability of workers is down.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. By Bill Siwicki | October 17, 2023 News Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Some of this shift to virtual care will be permanent. A significant percentage of ambulatory care will never return to a clinic. As an example, elder care differs from pediatric care. The challenges with telehealth in elder care were the topic of a recent study by Harvard Business School.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Innovate long-term care. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the U.S. Achieve health equity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Did you know that medical costs from falls was $50 billion in were projected to be $52 billion in 2020? And that the costs (estimated at $754 million in 2015) were mostly paid by Medicare and Medicaid (the latter likely in nursing homes.) category tags: fall prevention, fall detection , AgeTech , baby boomers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

For administrators: Simplify functions and cut costs in booking appointments, scheduling and discharge planning. Join this session to explore how to unlock value within the Microsoft platform in the following areas: For clinicians: Increase collaboration while social distancing through virtual rounding and virtual huddle boards.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. . In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. Sensor technology shrinks and changes form for health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The dream of reimbursement for remote care became a reality during the pandemic. 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. In-home healthcare services will persist and expand.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Harvard study describes a bleak care future. But only 14% of Americans can afford long-term care in the home. Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) to supplement in-person care. The shortage of care workers within the next decade is daunting – it spans all aspects of care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The US population is aging and will be needing more care. You read it every day in the popular press – the bad news about the 65+ and their future care burden and the good news about the 65+ and their wealth (22% of US spending in 2022). Consumers are all in on self-diagnosis and care.

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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. By allowing providers to “merchandise their care” and manage both sides of the access problem. How does DexCare achieve this holy trinity of value propositions?

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Digital Health 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

The care continuum that serves older adults is an ignored reality. The stove-piping of care-related services is a myth. Examples: Some believe family caregivers are a standalone entity that does not use care services. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

New progress for dementia care. Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. TaprootElla. “

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

Sunrise Senior Living’s chatbot offers a list of choices -- ‘find care for myself’ or ‘browsing options for senior living’ -- all of which could lead to an answer that does not require a phone call or further searching. In fact, Right at Home’s site has only two tabs – and they get right to the point – Find Care or Find Jobs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The home care market is (still) a booming business. Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. Home care workers are also among the lowest paying and least trained occupations. And many already at home and in assisted living need the same care.

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Nursing 128

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What changes in care technology will be different later in this decade? Consider the implications of adoption of sensors to deliver and improve the care of older adults -- then look forward five years. Does the shortage of labor to serve the aging population make sensor technology essential in delivering care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. There are cost controls built into these programs, so telehealth can't increase overall costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Those caregivers that remained earned well deserved increases in compensation while high priced travel support was required to fill in the patient care scheduling gaps. While in this transition phase, many organizations are looking to information technology to advance their operational efficiency and further evolve patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Our reporters will be on the ground to cover the exciting discussions on healthcare analytics, new models of care, and more. September 04, 2023 Sponsored Achieving operational efficiency while cutting cost Ascom puts all crucial functionalities for enabling mission-critical communication in one.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

Through the Innovation Challenge, CharmHealth provides a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs, students, nonprofits and philanthropists to share groundbreaking ideas with the investors, incubators and partners who can bring them to market and effectively advance care. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

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mHealth Watch

JULY 7, 2023

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

A few organizations at these events, like AARP (VIVE) and Best Buy Health (HIMSS), clearly have a vested interest in the health status and care of aging adults. See 2024 update Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: digital health , healthcare , AgeTech , Aging, ageism

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Further, patient volume instability and cost management remain key challenges.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Long forgotten now, it was briefly in Wikipedia to define the benefit of a continuing care retirement community where you did not have to leave the community if you required higher levels of care. A growing number of the 50+ population are solo agers, those with no close relatives to share in their future care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term care , for those with dementia, unable to be hugged by family, it is far worse. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking.

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Mental health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

There is a labor shortage everywhere -- ditto in senior care. We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. B ut is tech investment part of all senior care strategies?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Trends worth noting about care work. Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022. Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. Demand and costs are up, and availability of workers is down.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The cost of senior living care at $54,000/year over any length of time is staggering, pushing move-in ages out to 84. The move to senior living is a move of desperation for many families, given that their loved one is likely to have dementia and needs more care. What it means – a tech opportunity. million 27.2 million 33.3

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

Staffing issues continue to plague senior care organizations. And the shortage of care workers is mirrored in other industries – signs are posted everywhere seeking workers in the midst of the ‘ great resignation.’. How about the care-related industries? Fewer workers available invites technology augmentation. Motion sensors.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers. By optimizing kits and trays the pharmacy can also reduce costs by minimizing expired inventory.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

Tagging drugs with RFID, he argued, would address problems with medication flow around the hospital and allow providers to tie distributions directly to a patient's electronic health record. "If you can tag a nail clipper with RFID technology," as many big-box stores do, "you can do it for medication," he said.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In November, a long report (the third of 2020 ) called The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults was published, the result of 30 interviews with executives from organizations large and very small. Now, we’re bringing transformative technology to one of the most needed, fastest-growing markets — home care." GetSetUp.io

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

The pace of innovation is accelerating, driven by older adult changing needs, shortage of care workers, investor interest and of course. The dream of reimbursement for remote care is a reality. category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech.

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