Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Digital literacy – what is it? The term “Digital literacy” has been defined by the American Library Association task force as " the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills." You must take that upgrade, now!”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference News 5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward. Get all the coverage from this event on this page.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. Others are competing with other startups by offering similar services.

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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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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. “Macy’s?

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador.

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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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2024

The purpose of the document, however, is to aggregate and review trends from 2023 that shape 2024, technology changes that matter, and offer, by category, a sampling of products, services, and sites of relevance to the older adult market. What’s new in this version of the report? Most everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. SafelyYou Insight. “ With SafelyYou-Insight™ services, your community gains access to clinical fall expertise.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. 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. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , home health care , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

With so many entrants in the AgeTech, accessibility and health categories seeking visibility and possible global reach. And there are numerous separate focal points for tech for older adults (see Samsung Health House ) and a CTA Foundation Pitch Competition. MindMics Heart Health System. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. "Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 17, 2022

If this were any other health innovation, it would have been matched to need years ago. Imagine if the Digital Health technologists had to deal with the FDA to get you a tool like the Apple Watch’s health features approved in 2018 , the equivalent of 10 minutes after the watch was announced.

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Clear Arch Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

2024 got off to an auspicious and promising start for the everyone vested in promoting telehealth and remote patient monitoring as viable solutions to advancing health equity and providing high-quality care to rural and geographically isolated U.S. And, Clear Arch Health is thrilled to play a role!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Globally the response has divided and united populations and no less so in the UK, says global digital adviser and NHS clinician Dr Sam Shah. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. The doctor will see you now.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. to virtually “step into” field hospitals and assist physicians, in real-time, when treating wounded service members.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

But here are 'answers': Bing Chat: There are many AI-enabled technologies that are available today to help older adults with various aspects of their health and well-being. Portable devices and wearable intelligence: Gadgets that can track physical activity, detect falls, or alert emergency services 1 2.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Care-related service organizations are taking a closer look at technologies that could help them cope more effectively with staffing shortages and other issues. Other vendors are now offering voice-enabled PERS services. Health and wellness. Learning and contribution.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In other wrap-up surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. Targeted at an older demographic, the platform helps stimulate private traffic, converting it into guided shopping through a complete SaaS service solution. Healables. "M

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Worse, for many older adults, isolation is a worsening health issue that we will hear more about as shutdowns continue and shut-in becomes the virtual norm. 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.

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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. The Takeaway Although the “digital front door” tag might be overplayed, DexCare’s platform really lives up to the title.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“Launch of secure, cloud-based service to provide a better option for people to store and share important documents.Clocr is hosted in the cloud, so users can trust that their information is encrypted and preserved with access only given to contacts and guardians approved by the account holder. Learn more at HandsFree Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Paddy Padmanabhan In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems saw dramatic spikes in virtual visits and telehealth adoption in the patient population. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country in the first few months of the pandemic.

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Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Atropos Health is a tough company to pin down with a short intro. It’s one part physician consult service, one part real-world data network, mixed together to close “ evidence gaps ” wherever they might be. The post Atropos Raises Capital to Bridge Evidence Gap appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Families can send pictures to a digital picture frame. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , wearables, smart watch , IoT and home monitoring , healthcare. The last was offered by a giant US network. Learn more.

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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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. 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. The dream of reimbursement for remote care is a reality.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dmitrii Evstiukhin , Director of Managed Services at Provectus In today’s world, personalized and efficient digital interactions are expected, especially in the healthcare industry. And the stakes are high. When done well, great customer experience improves customer satisfaction.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

AI-powered digital companions and training tools are evolving. AI will likely be part of the next generation of user interfaces for all types of interactions – including health questions. AI chatbots will be built into senior living concierge services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Necessity will drive AI usage in care work across all five care types (healthcare, home health care, home care, senior living, and Skilled Nursing Facilities). Population health will transform into a population of one. Avatars are emerging built on health protocols and voluminous data sets.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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