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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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Health IT implementation best practices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

HIT Best Practices Series This 20-part series examines in-depth what it takes to deploy today's most necessary technology and tools, with expert advice from IT pros who are leading the charge. We'll share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. by Bill Siwicki March 07, 2019.

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Focus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

2019 Technology Market Overview is online this week. Here are four updated premises from the 2019 Market Overview of Technology for Older Adults : 1. Caregiving demands of an aging population drive policy change in 2019. On average, home care fills a care gap of 20-27 hours per week at a presumed lower cost ($20.50/hour

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Consider tech adoption trends to contemplate what might be next

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Health-related technology adoption. Technologies surveyed included: tracking a care recipient’s finances or personal health records; use of assistive devices; electronic lists or spreadsheets to track activities; or checking in on a care recipient using a remote monitoring app or video. T echnology Adoption – Pew Research.

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The growth of telehealth is a plus for seniors – if they can use it

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Their latest surveys about smartphone and broadband, as with the Caregiver study, were completed in 2019. As for broadband adoption, 73% of the 65+ in the last survey in 2019 were broadband users, though likely fewer in the upper age decades. The AARP Research survey of older adults was completed in 2019, published in early 2020.

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What’s next with Voice tech and seniors?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) But according to a late 2019 AARP survey , only 20% of the 50+ population use voice assistants – and for the 70+, only 12%. as penetrating one third of the US population – 111.8