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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. Addressing Security and Privacy Concerns with RFID Regarding security and privacy concerns, one primary consideration is the information stored on RFID tags. Additionally, healthcare organizations using RFID need to consider several regulations.

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Narrowing the price gap between hearing aids and PSAPs

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The FDA wants you to understand that it regulates hearing aids – which it defines as helping the medical condition of hearing loss. The FDA then observes “ sound amplifiers for consumers with no hearing loss who want to make environmental sounds louder for recreational use.“ category tags: hearing loss. Recreational ?

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7 Key Trends to Watch from Aging and Health Technology Watch

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Regulation shift enabling capabilities in the home and emergency funding for telehealth will persist beyond COVID. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , IoT and home monitoring.

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Four trends to watch from 2022 Market Overview Technology for Aging

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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) also moves more care into the home – and is expected to further evolve in 2022 – regulation changes in the past year are have begun to turn the adoption tide ). category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech.

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Hearing aid pricing and weak insurance – older adults lose out

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FDA regulations are to be delivered by August, 2020, though Bose was permitted to offer a product that will likely be the first officially FDA-approved on the market, though this audiologist’s article makes that prospect seem worrisome. But the FDA is doing nothing about insurance coverage of hearing aids.

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The Apple Watch and Fall Detection – What’s it Mean?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In July, Tim Cook apparently did not want to get into the world of FDA regulation. In this new watch, both the ECG feature and fall detection have received FDA clearance within 30 days of applying, startling some observers who noted that closer to 150 days was more typical for a medical device.

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Telehealth and mail-order abortion possible in some states during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Mifepristone, in combination with misoprostol, is FDA-approved for abortions up to ten weeks' gestation. This is due in part to U.S.