Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 15, 2020

Saving seniors from Covid-19 requires worsening isolation. GreatCall Jitterbug Smart2 and Link App. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. In an article in the NY Times, Paula Span’s title said it all: Just What Older People Didn’t Need: More Isolation. Learn more at OneClick.chat.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 8, 2020

Covid-19 sharpens the benefits of teleaudiology. Some may require a smartphone app and in-office guidance from the audiologist to get started with it, or at the least, read an explainer about " merging face time with FaceTime." category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 8, 2020

Covid-19 sharpens the benefits of teleaudiology. Some may require a smartphone app and in-office guidance from the audiologist to get started with it, or at the least, read an explainer about " merging face time with FaceTime." category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , covid-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data. Mobile phone apps for mental health management have seen a global surge in popularity under lockdown. The shift to digital solutions has also been marked in mental health services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) gets a boost …In the time of Covid-19, in-person patient monitoring becomes nearly impossible unless the patient is in a hospital bed. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. If not now, when?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In their September, 2020 Aging in Place report, the authors note that demographics, regulatory and policy changes (aka reimbursement via Medicare Advantage plans), and Covid-19’s boosted use of digital health combine to make this a pivotal point. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Who knew that Covid-19 was about to take over the world -- and with it, the world of events? Kinesis Balance App. during the COVID-19 pandemic. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. Learn more. platform for senior care, announced today the release of CareHeroTM, a cloud-based virtual.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

That was posted in November of 2021, with surveying ending in 2020 (just before Covid-19) and was made available within the last month. One might assume that post-Covid census data will be even more significant. Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. Bills are in Congress will make it permanent.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2020

But the Movie has so many points that are right-on, and specifically right-on in alignment with COVID-19. The in-real-life daily TV news actually over-dramatizes COVID-19 more. Demonstrate how organizations can engage providers using FHIR and FHIR-based apps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. 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. Stressors from COVID-19 and virtual care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

What has been the impact on them of the daily onslaught of Covid-19 statistics? This month’s most obvious change was the introduction of Amazon Care Hub , an Alexa app that can be used to help monitor potentially isolated older adults. November revealed a growing sense of urgency about older adults. Amazon and Older Adults.

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

While experts continue to seek effective treatment and vaccine options for the ongoing COVID-19 virus, mental health care providers face another side of this worldwide phenomenon: the unforeseen and widespread impacts on individual and community mental health and well-being. Use text messaging-based marketing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Analytics Population Health Quality and Safety Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 pandemic may be viewed as the single largest disruptor in the history of American healthcare. Just as the digital strategy was beginning to take shape, the first COVID-19 patient was admitted to a Geisinger hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan A recent estimate by consulting firm McKinsey suggests that $250 billion in healthcare spending could shift to virtual care models in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital front door apps are all the rage. The reality check on telehealth and COVID-19. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have elbowed their way into a seemingly flush market, while patient interest in telehealth has waxed and waned. "Look, healthcare is a $19 trillion dollar kind of industry, just from a U.S. Look, healthcare is a $19 trillion dollar kind of industry, just from a U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 26, 2020

Consider Israel, on the other hand … Meanwhile Israel’s population is 10 million people, recent startups focused on innovation for older adults during Covid-19 specifically. Our current piano learning apps are seeing fast user and revenue growth, chosen as one of the best apps by Apple and Google and used by 10% of US piano teachers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Care collaboration technology vendor TigerConnect has debuted TigerTouch, a text message-oriented, audio/visual telehealth system designed to help health systems manage COVID-19 cases. This is achieved without forcing a patient to log in to a portal, download an app or create another password to manage. THE LARGER TREND.

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