Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the very end of 2022, a new offering, ChatGPT, emerged from OpenAI , funded in the billions by Microsoft and others, that puts online access to information in a smart new light – even Google is nervous about its possible future obsolescence, if it can eliminate the need for ad-fueled search, where it makes most of its money.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2023

But constraints faced now and in coming years are beginning to emerge from public and political debates about privacy, ethics and proposed regulation. category tags: AI and machine learning , chatbots , Conversational and generative AI Some say that we are in The Golden Age of AI.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

Trends accelerated by the pandemic continue to emerge, and the population aged 50+ will continue to purchase and use technology, accounting for an estimated 51% of technology spending by 2030. Regulation shift enabling capabilities in the home and emergency funding for telehealth will persist beyond COVID.

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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. Responding to falls with emergency response seems like a logical addition of care for individuals already being monitored for chronic conditions. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

Labor shortages are plaguing every industry today –and technology solutions emerge to mitigate them. Whether it is after-hours tech-enabled check-ins, in-home fall detection sensors, use of a voice-enabled emergency call system or robotic companionship services, the tech for optimization is in the market now. And that's just today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

With growing usage of AI technology, numerous ethical questions are emerging. Remote monitoring processes depend on a well-trained response network which must deal with various alerts from sensors, cameras, voice-enabled devices, alarm systems, and edge devices – where a person is, but where there is no Wi-Fi or cloud access.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

By fostering responsible AI innovation, we aim to harness its power to improve health outcomes while safeguarding patient rights and data privacy. This technical approach holds the promise of accurately tagging and managing health data, providing patients with the assurance that their selections and their privacy are respected and upheld.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

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. There were only 900 searches for ‘Personal Emergency Response System’ – which is what the device actually is. Move further into the smarter watch space?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2023

Philips launched its own Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) offering in 2005 through the acquisition of Lifeline Systems and gave up 16 years later, selling it to Connect America. See latest report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 ] category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

Not the Emergency-Room use-case. The Emergency-Room tends to focus on stabilizing the patient and this can often be done in complete absence of historic data. Further when data are available, the clinicians in the Emergency-Room tend to already be operating at elevated privilege. Used only by authorized users.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

It took the combination of 71 million boomers, a pandemic emergency, and the sheer size of the aging population to transform a 2009 market niche into this 2021 market category worthy of investment-- less about products specifically designed for older adults as it is about the marketing of many existing offerings as useful to them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

By testing and implementing emerging technologies, VA is ensuring that Veterans receive the care they deserve. Using artificial intelligence, VSignals automatically analyzes the feedback to detect sentiment, determine which topics Veterans are mentioning, and predict what might be emerging before they intensify into long-term concerns.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I don't mind putting this code in, but at this time Obligation/Refrain codes are not used, where PurposeOfUse is emerging as being used. this would require tagging each data resource. Thus data could be communicated with an attached Obligation to not use it for Machine Learning Training (seems like a refrain).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 24, 2019

You can choose to contact emergency services or dismiss the alert by pressing the Digital Crown, tapping Close in the upper-left corner, or tapping "I'm OK." If your Apple Watch detects that you're moving, it waits for you to respond to the alert and won't automatically call emergency services. Learn more at Apple.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The setup includes your ‘emergency contacts’ acquired from your Medical ID, assuming you have Wrist Detection turned on. Which, since it is set to call Emergency Services unless you Cancel – might, as it has been with Apple Watch emergency calls, be a problem. . category tags: wearables, smart watch. Still with me?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We are approaching end of the year – it has been a good one for emerging technologies that can help older adults, today commonly known as AgeTech. HEAR A VOICE: Listen and serve an appropriate response. category tags: AI and machine learning , hearables/hearing technology , fall prevention, fall detection , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

This may be a first pass that precedes a future call center deal – last time it was VRI, which today markets its response services as VRIcares. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Seniors , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Perhaps its current market landscape has a set of PERS call center players already networked.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The result is VRIcares , its emergency response, vitals monitoring, and medication management matching the Philips Lifeline trio of services. Today, 30% of the PERS industry is mobile, validating the emergence of wearables other than pendants to take out and about. Which they did.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Companies emerged or announced updates addressing dementia care. You can also share links to your responses so loved ones can view them. Learn more at TapestryHealth. category tags: AI and machine learning , caregivers , dementia care, cognitive decline , digital health

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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. category tags: Mobile PERS , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection , medication management , Family caregivers.

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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. So far we have seen responses from across government, the NHS, local authorities and wider society coupled with industry providing support and in many cases much needed PPE.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

According to an AARP Healthy@Home report from 2008 , the only home tech device that had any level of awareness (91% of responders) was Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS). Consider the emerging general consumer technology market. Google’s IPO was in 2004 and Facebook (coincidentally) emerged that year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

The webinar, organised by the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community, was chaired by Mette Maria Skjoeth from Odense University Hospital, Denmark, featured registered nurse experts Ann Gregory, clinical nurse advisor to NHSX in the UK and Luis Encinas, emergency coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières, Spain.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Philips launched its own Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) offering in 2005 through the acquisition of Lifeline Systems and gave up 16 years later, selling it to Connect America. Long ago 'aging in place’ terminology emerged with a different meaning. This is not a fun company – read the reviews about working there.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Providers are embracing new technologies and digital tools to enable greater insights into what their customers want and need – and tailoring their efforts in response to patient feedback. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

People who use the service have 24/7 access to support, including a professional emergency response team and a family app for optimal care collaboration. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Based in New York, Aloe Care was created by caregivers for caregivers.

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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." category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Learn more at Caavo. Learn more at UniperCare. . See recent reports: . Market Overview Technology for Aging January 2022.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. In Europe, where health citizens are covered by the GDPR for privacy across all sorts of data, people have rights and responsibilities covering all data for health purposes and beyond. and much of the world. In the U.S.,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Upending the Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) landscape. category tags: wearables, smart watch , digital health , games, fun and fitness. It made people want to track health variables they never thought they would track -- like heart rate variability , blood oxygen levels, or hand washing frequency and duration. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Today, 30% of the PERS industry is mobile, validating the emergence of wearables other than pendants to take out and about. BellPal , Freedom Guardian , Bay Alarm Medical , UnaliWear , HandsFree Health , FallCall Lite (Apple) – connect to a required response center. Wearables became more visible – enabling PERS on the wrist.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 01, 2023 News ChatGPT scored 72% in clinical decision accuracy, MGB study shows The large language model's performance was steady across both primary and emergency care, and. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Healthcare observers are concerned that false positives from ECG readings could propel people unnecessarily to already-overloaded Emergency Rooms. This feature too is also set to alert ‘emergency services’ if the user requests it (911, most likely) or if the wearer is non-responsive.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Consider this response as research starting point: "The future of AI in senior care work holds significant potential for improving the quality of care and addressing the challenges posed by an aging population. Real-time alerts can be sent to caregivers or emergency services, ensuring timely assistance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

ECHO uses a unique and safe radar which alerts an emergency operator or caregiver automatically after situations such as severe falls, heavy breathing due to distress, prolonged lack of movement, as well as keeping track of the user’s daily activity and recording any indications of a deterioration of health. Learn more at OrbitaAssist. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

It’s 2023 and the emergence of AI everywhere. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , AgeTech Condition-specific checklists – maybe this has made it to large home healthcare providers. Care circle collaborators? If that means family, this is doubtful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

The staffing requirements (minimum guidelines from the federal government, interpreted by states) and actual staffing in nursing homes, given the level of care required, have been issues long before the emergence of Covid-19. . category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19. Pipe dream? Rant off. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Avatars are emerging built on health protocols and voluminous data sets. Behind a well-trained avatar, there can be a wealth of information to drive the interaction – enabling empathetic responses in multiple languages. Medicare Advantage consumers will increasingly expect a smooth digital experience.

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