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. BLS projects 22% job growth outpacing all other occupations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Technology firms such as Teladoc, Amwell, and Doctor on Demand which offer real-time video consulting and telehealth platforms have rushed to capitalize on unprecedented opportunities. The challenge will be managing expectations from patients who have tasted telemedicine and who now demand a mixed approach to their care needs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Doctors and nurses are burning out, especially in the ER. Demand and costs are up, and availability of workers is down. Report is published -- read it here ] category tags: caregivers , healthcare , tech-enabled home care , home health care , senior living You know the statistics and they are alarming.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

The consolidation is the result of the threat of marginalization as much as it is due to demands from enterprise clients. From mega-deals such as Livongo-Teladoc to smaller ones such as Grand Rounds-Doctor on Demand , the pursuit of scale and continued relevance has been a driving factor driving digital health companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Many of the online pharmacies had rapid uptake and a bit like the retailers also had to scale up their workforce to cope with demand. The doctor will see you now. It seems to have become part of everyone’s lives including the way in which we interact with doctors and other healthcare professionals.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Even your dentist and doctor prefer text. Past the halfway mark in 2023, it’s increasingly clear that the older adult tech market has been disrupted by changes in demand. Read more. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , smartphones, cellphones , social isolation Your relatives only text. So why keep it?

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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. Telehealth demands continued investment -- phone, video remote patient and/or device monitoring. What will be the priority?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

As one tech company told me, a one-year-pipeline compressed into a month of demand. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

An example of the former is the merger of Grand Rounds and Doctor-on-Demand for a combined value of $2 billion. Region Tag: Global Edition. The deal announcement confirms a consolidation trend underway in the digital health space. An example of the latter is Microsoft's $8 billion acquisition of Nuance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

Meanwhile, over at the $30 billion (2018) home care market, a worsening shortage of workers in the midst of demand growth, is creating a recruiting near-panic among agencies, senior living firms and families, and produced. category tags: Aging , Aging technology , home health care , Home Care , tech-enabled home care , Family caregivers.

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David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 A 2021 study showed that 80% of the country lacks adequate access to pharmacies, primary care doctors, hospitals, emergency services, and community health centers. Amazon is making a major investment by acquiring One Medical, a leading concierge primary care provider. Only time will tell.

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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. This unique activation link will expire after 48 hours.

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MeMD

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Not only do these employees bring different opinions and expectations to the workplace, but they also bring new demands – especially when it comes to their healthcare. They’re the reason DoorDash, Uber and on-demand everything came to be. The Demand for Virtual Care. Virtual Care Key to Retention.

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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. category tags: Home Care , Mobile PERS , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , social media. Why does this matter now?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Patients usually had to travel to their doctor's office, and offices had to own and maintain video and audio technology. What do you think will happen with telemedicine in 2022?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In Medical Economics’ 2022 annual survey , providers said increased competition is now one of their top challenges, namely because today’s patients are increasingly willing, for reasons of convenience, to switch doctors. When you automate your phone system, patients spend less time waiting on hold and playing phone tag.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 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. Bills are in Congress will make it permanent.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. Even as a task force is being set up to focus on nursing homes, on the one hand, that seems positive.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Chris Davis, an emergency medicine specialist and medical director of UCHealth Virtual Health at Colorado’s UCHealth, said he still is processing the explosion in telehealth demand that providers all lived through during the early days of the pandemic. “Doctors’ offices can be stressful places for patients,” she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

Paul Szotek of the Indiana Hernia Center in Carmel, Indiana, has some very strong feelings about what he calls the loss of the doctor-patient relationship. As the employed model has grown, physicians have increasingly lost autonomy to deliver care to their patients in a manner that optimizes the doctor-patient relationship, he said.

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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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