Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

This cycle was not helped by the behavior of earlier AI technologies like voice assistants. For example, despite broad implementation of a tool to detect sepsis via EHR software , it turned out to do a poor job at detection, and worse, doctors did not really understand how it worked. These include: Ethical dilemmas.

EHR 62

EHR 62

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.

Telehealth 75

Telehealth Mental health Nursing Health Information 75

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

How do frontline military doctors successfully consult with surgeons back home when time is of the essence? Breakthroughs in AR technology are also now enabling doctors in the U.S. to virtually “step into” field hospitals and assist physicians, in real-time, when treating wounded service members.

EMR 197

EMR EHR Connected Health Telehealth 197

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed. Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas.

Medicare 125

Medicare Telehealth Public Health 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Consider these answers and wonder how we got here – that the first ad is from Lilly, with a vested interest in the definition as well as the searcher contacting a doctor. VA benefits: If you are a veteran, you may be able to get financial assistance to pay for a nursing home through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Nursing 122

Nursing Medicare 122

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2019, Voice First represented a category of technologies like smart speakers and voice assistants. Now health organizations and providers are moving forward with voice-enabled interfaces to everything from hospital rooms, appointment scheduling, doctors note-taking, prescription requests, and even discharge instructions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

With manual translation, you'll speak into the translate app one at a time and wait for Google Assistant to read back your translated speech. Use it in your everyday life to make important calls such as booking doctor appointments or making reservations, or to call family, friends and coworkers. Learn more. Hamilton MobileCapTel.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Doctors and nurses are burning out, especially in the ER. Even with wealth, older adults at some point in their lives will need some level of assistance. Report is published -- read it here ] category tags: caregivers , healthcare , tech-enabled home care , home health care , senior living Trends worth noting about care work.

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Medicare Nursing 58

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 30, 2019

Another (healthcare) went to Suki , a voice notes offering for doctors that "has demonstrated up to 70% reduction in time spent entering notes." . We deliver a full-service solution to customers in the assisted living, nursing care and home care space that provide a vast array of benefits to their residents." SurveyLine.

mHealth 65

mHealth Nursing Digital Health Telehealth 65

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

In addition, telehealth visits scaled 175 times the pre-COVID volume, no doubt due to the obvious – people could not go to the doctors’ office and for older adults, Medicare began to reimburse telehealth at the same rate as in-person. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Family caregivers.

Remote care 89

Remote care Telehealth HIPAA Medicare 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Some could query Google Assistant on smartphones or in their cars with Apple CarPlay (via Siri ) or Android Auto. According to testing, Google Assistant is smarter, so for some uses, out and about with cars and smartphones, that may be more optimal – especially with recent new features for maps.

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HIPAA EHR Digital Health 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That two-thirds of doctors and nurses are experiencing moderate or a great deal of burnout at work. The Nomo Smart Care Essential Care Kit creates simplified digital solutions to enable caregivers to stay connected and assist their loved ones with everyday general well-being, allowing for them to know more and worry less.

Health Technology 75

Health Technology Nursing Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A doctor can help determine the type and stage of dementia and whether it is likely to be Alzheimer’s disease or some other type. Smartphone assistants. Amazon Echo, Dot Google Assistant , Sir i, Alexa MemoryWell LifePod , SharetheCare , LotsaHelpingHands. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Meta (how tiresome, we know it is Facebook) has been sending patient data from hospital systems back to Facebook (appointments, doctor, and a host of other patient-specific data) through the use of a tracking pixel. Voice assistants made device hardware actually seem smart. The Meta Pixel problem – who would have thought?

Connected Care 69

Connected Care Remote care 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

The good news – this week’s Health Care Technology supplement transcended the limits of doctors and hospitals – and dabbled in the dilemmas of elder care – included technology to assist those with dementia and mitigate loneliness. On to dementia – those assists from technology – starting with the smart home. How comforting.

Nursing 75

Nursing 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. category tags: covid-19 , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , senior living , seniors and aging policy , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Remote care Telehealth Nursing Medicare 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

The position needs a 4-year doctor degree which can follow any bachelors undergraduate education. Coverage’ of hearing aids amounts to a patchwork of discounts and various forms of organizational assistance plus pay-over-time options. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , seniors and aging policy.

Medicare 106

Medicare 106

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. Getting assistance matters: Help you get help if you fall. Wearables can be set up to share information with the doctor.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

Telehealth 75

Telehealth Nursing Medicare Patient Experience 75

Waracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Recent innovations in mobile technology, such as the onset of RFID (radio frequency identification tags) and NFC (near field communication) tags have better enabled medical IT systems to communicate seamlessly with smartphones and tablets. Leveraging the IoMT To Follow Doctor’s Orders. The other key driver is mobile.

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Pharmaceuticals Digital Health Health Data 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 22, 2018

The insights quoted here could be generalized, not just to Skilled Nursing Facilities, but to all types of care delivery – and are particularly notable in the context of last week’s New York Times article: " How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers.” We must talk about the team. Documentation requirements take them away.

Nursing 63

Nursing 63

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

The insights quoted here could be generalized, not just to Skilled Nursing Facilities, but to all types of care delivery – and are particularly notable in the context of last week’s New York Times article: " How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers.” Here are the questions and few observations about the work and the workers.

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Nursing 60

Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Looking forward 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, secure communication between doctors, patients, clinicians and nurses is going to be an essential utility and productivity tool, potentially unrivalled by any other technology in terms of impact and widespread adoption. Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK.

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Digital Health Nursing Primary Care HIPAA 91

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.

Telehealth 98

Telehealth 98

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.

Telehealth 72

Telehealth 72

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Innovations Provide Doctors New Methods to Diagnose, Treat and Deliver More Personalized Patient Care PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS Doctors use them to enter and track symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment plans, as well as any labs or prescriptions. A Smarter Way to Chart Chart Notes are a cornerstone of CharmHealth’s EHR platform.

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FHIR EHR Interoperability mHealth 88

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

By then, thorny questions about privacy, personalization, and patient-doctor voice communication will be closer to resolution. Perhaps doctors will no longer save notes for evening if they can enter them by speaking during or just after the appointment. And in five years, perhaps scribes will not be required.

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Interoperability mHealth HIPAA Digital Health 87

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 19, 2023

Within five years, doctors will see the benefit in guiding older adults to their usage. category tags: Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , Conversational and generative AI , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , wearables, smart watch , smart home Chronic disease monitoring through wearables will see the most substantial growth.

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Remote care Telehealth 118

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace. iRhythm Technologies.

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Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 188