Digital Health Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare consumerization is all the rage, and not many startups are driving it forward faster than DexCare, which just landed $75M in Series C funding just two years after spinning out from Providence. The Takeaway Although the “digital front door” tag might be overplayed, DexCare’s platform really lives up to the title.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

CharmHealth goes beyond providing just funding or mentorship to winners. This focus allows CharmHealth to concentrate its resources and expertise in a particular realm, fostering innovation and advancements in the EHR and related landscapes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Its increasingly transformed by new technologies emerging from new funding sources tech disruption, and entrepreneurial initiatives. Some might say that tech adoption is slow in some sectors, but it is not for lack of widespread funding sources and innovator motivation. Grant funding for technology access is exploding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Government & Policy Population Health Telehealth The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is funding new efforts to help counties and municipalities build high-speed broadband networks. Here's what that could mean for telehealth, as more funding enables new opportunities for care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 14, 2021

Instead, local TV stations could run nationally funded (or AARP-funded) promotions about a number to call to obtain must-have discounted Internet access. Local newspapers could feature ads funded by state governments or agencies. category tags: Technology - AARP , computers, internet and social networking. Crazy, huh?

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2022

In our grant funding blog series, we’ve provided tips and insights to help you and your organization through the grant process. In our last two posts, we talked about how to identify your telehealth grant funding needs and provided an overview of the four main types of grant funding sources. Hire professional grant writers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A few simple test questions ‘(how do families fund nursing homes?’ In other wrap-up non-surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , IoT , Technology - AARP Read the report.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This followed late-year 2020 activity, including the $10 million in funding for tech training company GetSetUp and the $18 million of funding for Papa from Comcast Ventures to combat social isolation in older adults and launch tech-enabled health offering called Papa Health. category tags: computers, internet and social networking.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Some face the lingering effects of COVID-19, while others lack funding and staff. Healthcare providers are increasingly turning to technology to help shoulder these burdens, but are fancy tech deployments really the cure or just another placebo? How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software.

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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. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020. Region Tag: Global Edition. Everything is up: deal volumes, deal sizes, M&A activity, IPOs, SPACs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Tembo.Health. " Tembo.Health, funded at least in part by Primetime Partners , a new aging-focused VC firm, is a p rovider of telemedicine services intended to connect patients with specialty services like psychiatry and cardiology, including those in nursing homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The supply-demand problem has also hit home health care even with outside funding sources has the same issues. [Stay tuned for new report next month, AI and the Future of Care Work] category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care , AI and machine learning

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

Some of these grants will fund projects to determine best practices in care, some new technology for care, including wearables, and some researching new processes to help older adults age in their own home. And just in time. [

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Several renewals of funding and reimbursement have occurred, the latest extending Medicare reimbursement through 2024 (and no doubt, to be renewed again after that). category tags: Conversational and generative AI , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health And last but not least, ubiquitous telemedicine – is it here?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Digital health startups have also defied dire predictions about funding slowdowns, with data pointing to stronger-than-ever funding numbers in 2020, including aggressive M & A by public companies riding the wave of strong stock market performance. What could go wrong with this picture? Featured Decision Content:

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Digital Health Global

JULY 11, 2023

By supporting entrepreneurs, particularly when the funding climate is tight, CharmHealth can be an advocate and connector that contributes to the development of cutting-edge healthcare solutions,” said Pramila Srinivasan , Ph.D., CharmHealth goes beyond providing just funding or mentorship to winners. CEO of CharmHealth.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2021

After identifying your telehealth needs and considering all the different types of grantors , your organization can now begin a more informed search for telehealth grant funding opportunities. The following 17 points illustrate key grantor search resources available to help your organization find telehealth grant funding.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

There remains a patchwork of options to help fund the expense. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , hearing loss. But at close to $5,000 or more for a sophisticated pair of hearing aids, it’s no wonder that seniors may delay or seek low-cost alternatives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In other wrap-up surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. The Petnow app can solve the problems of the existing pet identification methods such as microchips, tags, and collars that are prone to damage or loss, and it is beginning to enter the U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

It is increasingly transformed by new technologies emerging from new funding sources, multiple forms of tech disruption, and entrepreneurial initiatives. Some might say that tech adoption is slow in some sectors, but it is not for lack of widespread funding sources and innovator motivation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

This followed late-year 2020 activity, including the $10 million in funding for tech training company GetSetUp. And note the $18 million of funding for Papa from Comcast Ventures to combat social isolation in older adults and launch tech-enabled health offering called Papa Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Recent reports indicate explosive growth in venture capital funding for digital health startups, around $15 billion for the first half of 2021, with no slowdown in sight. Many will be tempted to exit in the current environment of unlimited funds and attractive valuations rather than grind it out for the long term.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 26, 2020

That makes at least three US VC firms, including Generator Ventures and Linkage Ventures, that acknowledge the older adult technology market, let alone fund early stage entrants. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business. One imagines that the phone there is ringing off the hook. Learn more at TuneFork.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While some of the actions below will require further funding action from Congress, all of these represent forward momentum for long-needed changes. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , smartphones; wearables , baby boomers And Google is no better with Pixel phones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

The proliferation of devices and their non-simplicity gave birth to Best Buy’s Geek Squad into Total Tech Support (any device) and $10 million of funding for learning platforms. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , technology support. It’s not just seniors who need help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

At the end of November, the tech world figuratively-speaking fell over when the staggeringly well-funded AI tool, ChatGPT, was launched by OpenAi , its sponsor and creator.Within five days, a million were giving the tool a try – and who knows how many by now (six weeks later, perhaps more powerful servers are required).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ category tags: Mobile PERS , smartphones , wearables, smart watch.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.”

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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

AUGUST 27, 2020

Consider reimbursement for telehealth technologies , a wave of free engagement software, distribution of tablets to senior centers and Echo Dots to senior living , to remote care voice tech for high needs seniors and government-funded competition to combat social isolation.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. As a sweet sidebar to the backstory of how this research was funded, the U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. Tagging is further search refinement. Next, let’s talk about metadata (data about data) and tagging. Tags, custom sub-categories can help people find what they are looking for when browsing or searching, think a navigation tool, a GPS. Short summary.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

Kaiser, Director of Geriatric Cognitive Health at the Pacific Brain Health Center and CIO for the Motion Picture & Television Fund. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking. “"The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the loneliness of millions of older people,” said Dr. Scott A.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Consider Care.com – total funding through its 2016 IPO of $156 million (mostly direct-to-consumer) – with Alphabet/Google as of 2016 as the last round and largest shareholder of the company. Then along came another $42 million to deliver the service to more people in that overheated funding year of 2016.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 11, 2023

Final Call for Proposals to be Considered for Funding, Mentorship and Partnership Opportunities PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS The 15 selected finalists will then present their solutions to an innovation panel for the chance to win cash prizes as well as the opportunity to secure funding, partnerships and mentorship.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 15, 2020

OneClick.chat. " Research funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) has shaped the design of our products, making them easy for older adults to use. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Learn more at Pocket-Lint. . Learn more at OneClick.chat.

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