Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

Oddly, the US ranks 22 out of 27 nations at turning dollars spent into lives saved, according to industry statistics. See 2024 update Market Overview Technology for Aging ] category tags: digital health , healthcare , AgeTech , Aging, ageism Aside from the backdrop for great networking and fun at both events, things are bleak.

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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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mHealth Watch

JULY 7, 2023

Similar is the case if we develop moles, skin tags, or warts. Dermisolve is a highly efficient corrector serum that offers you a quick herbal-based remedy to help you get rid of moles, skin tags, and/or warts. Dermisolve is a corrector serum for Moles, Skin tags and/or Warts. Now isn’t that cost-effective?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Get time-saving tips whether you’re looking for respite care, an audiologist or a caregiver support group." category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , AgeTech , smartphones, cellphones They help you manage dementia care tasks with confidence and privacy, on our secure HIPAA compliant infrastructure. Learn more at Amicus Brain.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

Smart Care Facility Platform transforms healthcare settings with powerful AI-enabled automation that improves processes, saves valuable time, reduces costs and eases burdens on care teams so they can focus on delivering the best patient care possible." Now partnered with Samsung. Learn more at care.ai Mariposa Technologies.

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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. The advantages of RFID extend far beyond error reduction and time savings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We’ve seen how technology and innovation in other verticals of healthcare have created better treatments, cost-savings, and health outcomes that have ultimately improved lives. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , social isolation , Learning, working, contribution and legacy.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 1, 2019

The upshot – 54% will be unable to pay the $60,000 average annual cost of assisted living (make that $93,000 in Washington DC), even if they sell their home. Consider the operating margin of 34% and the real cost – can tech help? For many, that additional cost may drive families elsewhere, to nursing homes or back home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

In other industries when there are severe labor shortages, companies seek and deploy technology that saves labor cost and/or mitigates the effect of shortages in stores , restaurants, and hotels , for example. Fewer workers available invites technology augmentation. Examples: Current Health (now part of Best Buy) , and Samsung.

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GlobalMed

MAY 28, 2019

When a medical emergency hits – say, a car accident or a heart attack – no one’s first concern should be about the price tag attached to the ambulance or medical air transport. But the sad truth is that many patients will avoid requesting emergency transportation because they fear the cost. The Intense Cost of Air Ambulances.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. Enhancing emergency response as a way to save more lives. Region Tag: Global Edition. Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. Follow him on Twitter @cjsettles101.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. Some of the major barriers to quality internet include slow internet speeds (21%), high costs (20%) and unreliable service (16%). Region Tag: Global Edition. Make no mistake, I am a believer! Let's get it done! Follow him on Twitter @cjsettles101.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Private pay: This means paying for the nursing home out of pocket, using personal savings, investments, or income from a pension or Social Security. Long-term care insurance: If you have long-term care insurance, it may cover some or all of the costs of a nursing home. category tags: AI and machine learning.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

How Healthcare Benefits from Enterprise Visibility RTLS have been proven to offer cost-effective solutions that ease operational burdens and enhance safety for both patients and staff. The use of RTLS asset management provides an annual savings of ~$2 million at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

You probably think, well that must be good, because those landlines cost as much as $55/month. So that’s a cost savings, right? Read more. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , smartphones, cellphones , social isolation But wait -- what if emergency services can't find the caller from a cell phone?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

At the same time, the technology market presents growing complexity, worsening privacy issues, and interoperability limitations, while not effectively lowering the cost of access or the price of useful devices. On average, home care fills a care gap of 20-27 hours per week at a presumed lower cost ($20.50/hour

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

The goal of VBID is to align costs and outcomes in health care in terms of paying for what brings value. The point here is that private-label aspirin costs about five cents per tablet. Does that mean that politicians and consumers will argue they should cost more?” The report calculates that these products save the U.S.

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MeMD

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In this case, regular preventive and primary care services – like annual wellness visits, vaccines, screenings and labs – are directly linked to better health outcomes and lower costs. In fact, research from Oregon Health Authority shows that every $1 invested in primary care yields $13 in savings in downstream costs in healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This medication non-adherence (not filling prescriptions or missing dosages) is a major health issue – resulting in 10% of hospitalizations, 125,000 deaths, and costing the healthcare system up to $300 billion/year. In a study by Walgreens, researchers found that every 1% improvement in adherence saves about $50 in healthcare spending.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2022

Many resources exist, both paid and no-cost, to help you uncover potential funding sources and refine your search for the best alignment between grant program goals and your project. Utilize no-cost sources of information relevant to your needs. Contact your local library.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Nearly a third of older adults, according to a National Council on Aging post , are foregoing visits to emergency rooms, afraid of contracting the virus, or avoiding outpatient visits , afraid of catching Covid-19 or concerned about cost of care. category tags: telehealth , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare , Seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Perhaps seeing the future, 6 in 10 thought that “personal computers will cost too much to install (62%), maintain (59%) and may not be something I need (58%).” Oh yes, and does it save money? category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging technology. That was the good news. The jury is still out.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 26, 2020

The availability of approved biosimilar and interchangeable insulin products is expected to increase patient access, adding more choices and potentially reducing costs of insulin products ,” adds the report. These critical therapies often carry a heavy price tag; the cost of insulin has risen over the past decade.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

Many resources exist, both paid and no-cost, to help you uncover potential funding sources and refine your search for the best alignment between grant program goals and your project. Utilize no-cost sources of information relevant to your needs. Contact your local library.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

mcare Home Health Hub allow individual caregivers or senior living facilities to ensure proper medication adherence through visual confirmation of right medication, right person, right time – from anywhere – which can significantly impact quality of life and clinical outcomes while reducing health care costs.” Learn more. . Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Consider the slower-growing 8(8% occupied) senior housing industry – where in ten years, 81% of couples will not be able to afford the $60,000 average cost of assisted living (a number that does not reflect higher cost memory care). category tags: VR/AR technology , cell phones, smartphones , tablets. Read more. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

As we're addressing such a big percentage of patient concerns through the combo of the Force platform and our nurse navigation program, our doctor offices are not getting bogged down in the back-and-forth of phone tag just to answer a simple patient question." " Then there are lower readmission and infection rates.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the last 20 years, telemedicine has radically cut healthcare costs and brought life-saving care into rural and underserved areas ; during the same period, cybercrime has boomed, with attackers repeatedly targeting healthcare organizations’ rich stores of valuable data.

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 13, 2017

Pharmaceutical companies are coming to terms with the limits and costs of designing better insulin, and generic or biosimilar insulins are entering the marketplace. Here’s a jet-lagged and sleep-deprived look at five of the trends that we saw from the first three days of the conference: 1. Thanks for reading this Insulin Nation article.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

And have we mentioned online banking , accessing Social Security information , buying savings bonds – oh, and then there's healthcare access, including finding a doctor or benefiting from telehealth services? . category tags: Seniors , seniors and aging policy , computers, internet and social networking , cell phones, smartphones.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

“This allows providers to use telemedicine technology to improve the cost and quality of healthcare delivery.” As a patient of Franciscan Health System’s primary care clinic in Port Orchard, Soderberg learned about an alternative option: virtual urgent care, at the cost of $35. ” Read More.

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Waracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This will have significant ramifications for the entire healthcare ecosystem, both in terms of the quality of healthcare patients receive and reduction of operational costs through IoMT implementation. It offers the potential to not only reduce costs, but also enhance the quality of care. The other key driver is mobile.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

And have we mentioned online banking , accessing Social Security information , buying savings bonds – oh, and then there's healthcare access, including finding a doctor or benefiting from telehealth services? . category tags: Seniors , seniors and aging policy , computers, internet and social networking , cell phones, smartphones.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 11, 2019

I then measured BG for two hours using a meter[1] that did not require test strips, an important cost-saving at the time. The parameters for this model consisted of: “ Glycemic Value ” for the food, roughly the fraction of the food input, its Total Available Glucose (TAG), that eventually appears as glucose. see Master List ).

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TheraNest

MAY 20, 2019

If there are too many steps to set up an intake, or a long delay while you play phone tag, the potential client may give up altogether or go with another therapist who’s less of a fit, but easier to contact. Fees: Listing an accurate representation of your fees will save you and your new clients a wallet headache.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Professional caregiving is a conundrum of high cost, low pay, and demand for workers. The low level of savings slows moves to assisted living, where move-in age is closer to mid-80s. They have simply not saved enough to be comfortable after retirement and later afford more than a few years at a private assisted living.

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