Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 9, 2018

Look for a topic presented in a Google Alert, for example, telehealth. First click ‘No’ on whether to subscribe to a site for home health agencies , then study the ring of event ads. Ah, Google, let’s (not) be evil – it could be crushing other companies. A Facebook ‘bug’ changed the privacy setting of 14 million users.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 30, 2019

The second annual event was last week – and you would think incorrectly that at least one writer from a national news media outlet would written about it by now, especially with 5000 attendees, sponsorships from Amazon and Google, 150 exhibitors, and numerous aw ards. Even better, the vendors will also have more descriptive websites.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2020

From an economic standpoint -- what will they (or their families) spend money on, how is their health, what is the cost of their care, where do they live? Perhaps smartphone designers are (still) not reading the testing and usability issues studied and reported by IEEE in 2018. As for tech adoption…the AARP executive summary is upbeat.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

This latest article was based on a recent study (part of a series) from Merrill Lynch and Age Wave. The Age Wave study, as do many journalists, combines home care (non-skilled, or ‘companion’) with home health care ( higher level of training and certification and refers to all as 'home health care.' .

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Digital Health 82

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

You want to launch a boomer/senior, home health tech, caregiving, product or service. Because there is competition now, primarily from Google, the market share projection for Amazon ( which ‘shipped tens of millions of devices at Christmas ’) will drop from 66.6% share by then – and Google Home-related will rise to 30%.

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Nursing 60

Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

” Not surprisingly, this site has often blogged about OpenNotes , starting with the initial research study from 2010-2012 that proved the world doesn’t end when patients see their notes. OpenNotes for Health Professionals. To the contrary, good things happen: OpenNotes: The results are in. As Liz said, this is just a start.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

Because Google says it was a ‘misunderstanding in the car’s software and from now on, the car will understand that large vehicles and buses will be less likely to yield.’. Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' Into health care? How does the writer know this? Not a chance.

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Public Health 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. But for a disease free quality of life in their later years, they will they need to fix lifestyle and health issues that did not characterize their parents. Digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

Over the years, consider the pilots of Rendever (virtual reality) at Brookdale , Benchmark’s pilot of Google Home and Samsung tablets , or CarePredict in LifeWell facilities – just a few of the many. Some pilots are even documented in the form of case studies – about what worked – or what might not have worked.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Or mull over the technology industry, which is releasing new versions of every category faster than you can Google them, filling voids like adding mouse for the iPad. The issue of non-adoption, particularly as more health services move online, will become increasingly vexing for service providers of all types. Read more. .

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Telehealth 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Interestingly in a later survey, those with Amazon Echo or Google Home devices and apps used their smartphones less. Here are the most-read blog posts from 2018 – take another look if you missed them.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

So many entrants in the AgeTech, accessibility and health categories seek visibility and possible global reach. Eight more aging and health innovations from CES 2024. Or CES 2019 , when Google Assistant was everywhere and today, when it appears to be ‘ going down the tubes.’ And Google is no better with Pixel phones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

Consider: Detecting health conditions by voice. Healthcare providers are becoming interested in the use of voice technology to provide biomarkers – offering information from the sound of a person’s voice as a health status indicator. Recent studies show ability to recognize severely compromised breathing based on sound.

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Chilmark Research

JULY 13, 2015

It’s not every day that health-related news from Google gets buried, but recent headlines about the Supreme Court upholding a key provision of the Affordable Care Act and the nation’s largest insurers playing matchmaker seem to have relegated Google’s planned health-tracking wristband to the proverbial back page of the Internet.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything and Amazon voice devices everywhere. Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories.

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Digital Health 107

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2018

The organization is clearly committed to using Voice First interfaces for patients, for internal questions (“Who is the Charge Nurse on 7 South?”), for hands-free operating room checklists, for post-discharge guidance and for home health (100,000 interactions to date). Speaking Up About Health and Wellness. Read more here.

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Nursing 63

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything and Amazon voice devices everywhere. Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories.

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Digital Health 53

Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

First, I focus my days on learning how people make health choices and decisions in real-time. Just as the issues and tensions of health equity and systemic racism exist all the time, the problem of finding trusted evidence-informed guidance heightens during this pandemic. Tagging is further search refinement. Medline Plus.

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