Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

AI use in care delivery and marketing is not new - it just seems that way. It is beginning to emerge even in market segments that may have been slow to see (or seize) the opportunity. More systems will emerge that learn data patterns and algorithms to construct an interaction or respond appropriately. Learn more at Botco.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

New progress for dementia care. Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. TaprootElla. “

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. Key financial priorities in 2021 will be paying off debt, building up emergency savings, and paying for day-to-day living expenses. Job losses at the start of the coronavirus pandemic hit the health care industry hard.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Here are five from recent times: Amazon Care Hub. Care Hub represents the next iteration of smart speakers , which have evolved from just playing music or providing the weather forecast, to enabling home security services and now supporting senior citizens at home. Learn more at Care Hub. Not yet released. Amazon Guard Plus.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. 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. Medical practices are now offering choices to patients – in person or telehealth ?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The US population is aging and will be needing more care. You read it every day in the popular press – the bad news about the 65+ and their future care burden and the good news about the 65+ and their wealth (22% of US spending in 2022). The last-ditch choices will be emergency room visit or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. Smart implants: Devices that can monitor vital signs, blood glucose levels, or medication intake 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Our reporters will be on the ground to cover the exciting discussions on healthcare analytics, new models of care, and more. September 05, 2023 News Indonesia officially requires its healthcare facilities to implement EMRs The country enacted a Health Minister regulation on medical records in late August.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

How do medical centers capture and assess patient feedback, and implement improvements promptly and effectively? Improving care through technology. Some of the most important technological developments take place in the field of medicine, radically transforming the quality of care patients receive now and in the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Patients experience the effects of this impact through a reduction in available services, an increase in appointment wait times, and lengthy visits at the emergency department. While in this transition phase, many organizations are looking to information technology to advance their operational efficiency and further evolve patient care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Blooming Health's user-friendly platform addresses the vital needs of older adults and the family caregiver population, including wellness check-ins and needs detection around nutrition access, transportation and mobility, emergency preparedness, and follow-ups on the outcome of services provided to thousands of individuals every day.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

"Hospitals in the USA are struggling with lack of timely availability of the proper non-emergency patients (NEPTS) transportation. WatchRx Medication Adherence. Two-thirds of medication non-adherence is due to inattention and procrastination that often result in hospitalization. "Two-thirds Learn more. Learn more.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.” ” That’s a good start and intent for putting people first for their own health and the health of the people for whom they care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Their website identifies the top item (16,000 searches, results with ads) as a ‘medical alert bracelet'. Except for the deep-pocketed Medical Guardian which bought in everywhere, these were all bracelets to help emergency workers determine health issue in an emergency. Ditto ‘ConsumerAffairs.com.’

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

And doubts continue to emerge in the media that make it seem like we are in the slough of despond, otherwise known as the low point of the Gartner Hype Cycle. Note the concerted efforts to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes , reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

From the findings; One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. With growing usage of AI technology, numerous ethical questions are emerging.

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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. and sending it electronically to another site for later evaluation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 12, 2022

NCOA’s article notes that home alarm systems and medical alert devices may abruptly stop working – eliminating the ability to reach emergency services. And home care providers like Comfort Keepers worry about caregivers and senior care recipients. Home alarm systems, medical alert devices – a disaster averted ? "We

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

The government agency seems to have given up on improving the quality or affordability of dementia care in senior living or nursing homes. But is that the best setting for dementia care? No surprise: Data underpins care quality in senior living and home care. The stove-piping of care-related services is a myth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Long ago ‘aging in place’ terminology emerged with a different meaning. Long forgotten now, it was briefly in Wikipedia to define the benefit of a continuing care retirement community where you did not have to leave the community if you required higher levels of care. Or the cost and availability of home care?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. Microsoft's Azure health cloud includes a data service that brings together clinical, imaging, medical devices, and other datasets.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Care workers – it’s not a shortage – it’s a crisis. People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you. From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Staff can automatically start video calls to provide an emergency response without depending upon the senior to answer." Uniper Care is a leading provider of age-at-home, TV-based and mobile-based solution for care delivery and social engagement. category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Entrepreneurs clearly see the opportunity for providing tech-enabled services to help care for older adults. Curadite empowers patients, clinicians, caregivers and family members to work together to improve medication adherence with the support of our intelligently linked, proactive medication management platform. Orbita Assist.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 28, 2018

FallCall Solutions announced today that the company has launched its second product, FallCall™ Lite, a Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) app built exclusively for Apple Watch and iPhone. Keeping on top of medications can be challenging for seniors and their caregivers. Learn more at FallCallLite. Keenly Health.

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David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

This shift signals a potential change in the retail healthcare sector as companies strive to gain market dominance in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and home medical services while providing patients with personalized experiences. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 This can be a potential opportunity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Boston Medical Center specifically serves a significantly disproportionate number of disadvantaged patients living in the Greater Boston community. First, they needed to make care more accessible for patients, so they needed a service that implemented telehealth into the home, school or workplace, they determined. THE PROBLEM.

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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). The care continuum will become a data-driven reality for just-right care. Avatars are emerging built on health protocols and voluminous data sets.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

But those who needed abortions still had to travel to clinics for care – even when it comes to medication abortions, which consist of taking a few pills. Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. Welcome back to my ABCovid-19 Journal, which I created/curated in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. M is for mask.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

Here are four blog posts from February 2021: Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K/year in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). Stay tuned. Déjà vu all over again.

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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. can run over $100,000.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Only 38% of Americans have a dedicated savings fund for healthcare emergencies.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

Note the top trends that matter this Many changes underway in the enabling tech categories for older adults – including the importance of tech for home care agencies – not just the apps for the workers, but for care recipients, such as remote monitoring. Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring?

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

Here are five of them: Aloe Care. Aloe Care is delivering the world's first voice-activated, in-home digital care assistant for older adults. The service improves elders' safety and makes communication and care collaboration intuitive and easy. Based in New York, Aloe Care was created by caregivers for caregivers.

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