Digital Health Wire

JULY 12, 2023

Here’s the first half of the year by the numbers: US digital health funding totaled $6.1B The post Rock Health H1 2023 Funding Recap appeared first on Digital Health Wire. We’re in a new market cycle, so it’s time to buckle up for fewer rounds, lower check sizes, and a smaller cohort of sector investors. across 244 rounds ($24.8M

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. “For the first time ever, we’re seeing a significant uptick in patients who are excited about taking care of their diabetes and weight health. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Of course, a cockpit is an appropriate term – imagine a pilot sitting down in the left seat of an airplane with zero training on what to touch first. See 2024 Market Overview, Technology for Aging ] category tags: Television/Smart TV , smart home , vehicle/transportation technology-services

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

With the establishment of the term AgeTech at CES 2023 , the formal interest in the market of offerings for older adults has now been established. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , home health care , IoT and home monitoring. The 2023 Technology for Aging Market Overview is published.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

First look at the job profiles in the Bureau of Labor Statistics and examine the median pay of $29,430/per year. Well, as Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s blog notes, it’s a given that robots won’t save us in the near (by 2030) term. Even taken together, these offerings are unlikely to mitigate the demand for care workers in the near term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

In the UK “remote care and telemedicine had to rapidly jumpstart, and many nurses with little experience of telehealth have had to adapt and learn quickly in the last month,” Gregory said and added that the long-term digital agenda had suddenly been implemented due to investment and urgent need.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The first big event, CES 2023, brought multiple startups and stalwarts to Las Vegas. Ironically, it was not the big tech news of the month – eclipsed by an OpenAI introduction that had appeared in November, but was suddenly noticed – first in December in the media. 2023 begins with so many announcements, so little time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Similar progress has been made in secondary care, with widespread moves towards digital-first outpatient appointments and some hospitals supplying iPads to enable loved ones to ‘visit’ their relatives who have been hospitalised with coronavirus, without risk of infection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

Tagging drugs with RFID, he argued, would address problems with medication flow around the hospital and allow providers to tie distributions directly to a patient's electronic health record. "If you can tag a nail clipper with RFID technology," as many big-box stores do, "you can do it for medication," he said.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. What technologies can help mitigate this growing labor crisis in the senior care (home care, home health care, senior living, long-term-care) services market?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

GyroGear has developed the world’s most advanced hand tremor stabilizer, and to the best of our knowledge, the first mechanical gyroscope medical device. Xandar Kardian’s XK300-H is the first-ever radar-based vital signs monitoring solution intended specifically for home use. Learn more. Xander-Kardian XK300-H. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

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. Empowering future innovation. Innovation doesn’t happen in a bubble. VA modernization as transformation engine.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One might well argue that Amazon has and will continue to have a major impact on the quality of life for older adults (assuming senior privacy concerns and technology barriers to adoption are overcome – more on that another time): Offered low-price Voice First devices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Perhaps this is a good long-term sign that there will be more tech minds outside these big firms to allocate to innovation for an aging population that needs new ideas from the best and the brightest. The cost of long-term care. Ask yourself, what care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Even ‘I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up’ is one of the top four search terms (4800). . Maybe if they’re not Medical Guardian, which shows up regardless of phrasing , even when you click through the first result for the variant ‘I’ve Fallen and I can’t Get Up.’. Ditto ‘ConsumerAffairs.com.’ Best and worst companies – more ads.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

Of course, a cockpit is an appropriate term – imagine a pilot sitting down in the left seat of an airplane with zero training on what to touch first. Read more. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , vehicle/transportation technology-services , AgeTech Consider Google and its tightly coupled products.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

T he status in 2013 was bleak in terms of functionality. Also by 2018, v oice first technology presented a major user interface breakthrough for older adults. category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection , Remote monitoring , AI and machine learning Prices were high, functionality was low. Are we there yet?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 29, 2022

Consider not so long ago when Google was dumber about aging, and elder care -- i.e. terms hadn’t been indexed, definitions weren’t great, and providers didn’t care. Probably the most important first step as parents and family members age is to self-educate about options. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term care , for those with dementia, unable to be hugged by family, it is far worse. Read more. Read more. .

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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. The average PERS wearer is still an 82-year-old woman, likely living alone, which is why PERS devices are useful in the first place. The new Verizon drops the 'sure' in Sureresponse.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Layla McCay As the first wave of infections arrived, we saw near-instant digital innovation that might otherwise have taken years: the rapid roll-out of remote working platforms, shared care record projects, electronic patient record configurations, and virtual clinics and consultations. What comes next?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

First, I am very glad to see advancements in Patient ability to request and get the restrictions they desire. Tagging all of the data in an EHR is non trivial, and there is not good advice on how to do that well, say nothing of how to do it without fail. The following is purely my words. Why do I express this?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Information Services achievements that I am most thankful for at my organization include these key items: First, I’m thankful that we successfully implemented our integrated electronic health record. Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

First the confusion. One article author cites the growth of digital health but swaps in terms like “remote services” and “virtual consultations.” What about Voice First engagement technologies – or other tools for caregiver teams and family connection?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers. Venture interest in Aging in Place – is it a turning point?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

So the first half of 2018 saw $3.4 And the $146 million that went into PointClickCare – that is software for long-term care ( LTPAC ), another euphemism for what it really is – care of the elderly , generally in nursing homes. Perhaps the Voice First market will change all that. Investors continue to salivate over health tech.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ' Age Tech ' with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. Consider the first 3 reasons for returning (installation, learning features, configuring settings). Which means it will become very useful.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

The CDC reported in the aptly-named Morbidity and Mortality Report on this long-term care facility in late March, detailing cases among 81 residents, 34 staff members, and 14 visits. The post My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 3 of 5, Letters “K” through “O” appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

.” Financial toxicity has been identified as an unwanted side effect in American healthcare, first emerging from the cancer treatment providers at Sloan-Kettering Institute, one of the organizations involved in this study. This was the first so-called “semi-postage stamp” in U.S. history, first issued July 29, 1998.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

And AARP helps add brand recognition to the term ‘ Age Tech’ with a collaborative of companies at the Nexus of Longevity and Technology to deal with health issues and mitigate fear. Consider the first 3 reasons for returning (installation, learning features, configuring settings). Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (with aRyan Elz and Nick Patel , sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Gary Downing, CEO of Clarion Brands and Chairman of the CHPA Board, kicked off the first day with a nostalgic look back at his father’s truck, which motored between mom-and-pop stores in Dad’s work as a “rack jobber.” The goal of VBID is to align costs and outcomes in health care in terms of paying for what brings value.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

First off, many residents have died, and news media organizations are now obsessed with counting and re-counting, totaling up the numbers (more than 10,000 as of today) and then counting some more. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living. No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. So many of the 1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Paddy Padmanabhan The markets are buzzing with the latest Rock Health report on funding for digital health in the first half of 2021. Region Tag: Global Edition. For digital health startups to succeed in this space, they must get three factors right: cost, scale and quality. The trifecta for digital health solution providers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

LifeStation (never a first mover) became the latest to introduce a PERS watch, which should be the non-stigmatizing form factor for Personal Emergency Response devices. Perhaps you have seen the Age-Tech term pop up since early 2020, led in the US by by AARP’s CEO Jo Ann Jenkins.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

More than one-in-three patient interactions will go virtual globally – as the physician will no longer be the automatic first touchpoint. They will seek supplier agreements that are more long term with lower upfront investments. The pandemic has reinforced the power of digital platforms in communicating and guiding healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2022

By 2018, it seemed possible that Voice First technology (and its associated AI software) could transform the technology user experience for older adults (see report: The Future of Voice First Technology and Older Adults 2018 ). category tags: wearables, smart watch , AgeTech , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Television/Smart TV.

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