Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2014, AARP’s Health Innovation @50+ sponsored a report, Challenging Innovators: Matching Offerings to the Needs of Older Adults. The two events are parallel, both laser-focused on needed innovation to benefit older adults. Separate user interfaces from physical devices – making software portable across platforms.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Approximately half of the older adult population has a smart TV – a common platforms used to stream Internet services without an associated specialty box like Apple TV , Roku or Chromecast. Through a simple and user-friendly platform, Saltbox TV welcomes even those with no technical experience. Learn more at Caavo. Saltbox TV. "S

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The categories span Caregiving, FemTech, Health, Mobility, Savings & Planning, and Social Connections. billion people worldwide who have poor health and limited productivity due to difficulty walking. category tags: AgeTech , vision and vision technology , robotics , fall prevention, fall detection Startups – in a sense.

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Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Atropos Health is a tough company to pin down with a short intro. The Atropos Evidence Platform enables the magic on the front end, serving as a foundation of insights from over 160M de-identified patient records and a partner network that includes big names like Mayo Clinic and Clarify.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Consider voice-enabled smart plugs, thermostats, audio books, traffic directions, weather, and news updates – and answers to questions that might matter about health, social connection, and personal safety. Both platforms are now in position to deliver value and benefit to older users -- and thus the opportunity to speak and be heard.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. billion by the end of 2021. More than 1.2

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Digital Health Global

JULY 11, 2023

Our Innovation Challenge provides an ideal platform to showcase and exchange ideas and solutions that will reshape the healthcare landscape.” In addition to access to capital, partners and mentors, finalists will also have the opportunity to integrate their products or solutions with CharmHealth’s existing platform.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One in two U.S. “Macy’s?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. HintOS is the leading platform designed for providers of any size to manage the unique complexities of a membership-based primary care model.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

In an interview with Best Buy Health for their 800,000 recipient newsletter, these were the 7 trends we identified that will persist throughout the year -- and beyond. In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The 2022 FCC broadband progress map revealed the geographic areas of the US that lack high speed Internet access, and even if it were available, many do not go online, whether due to perceived lack of benefit, high cost, or low awareness. Technologies must be well-supported and intuitive. Upgrades must be invisible or painless.

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David Chou

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

By streamlining those tasks and easing the administrative burden, AI platforms will optimize the time of physicians and clinical staff. I recommend that CIOs explore the perfect platform for data aggregation as a significant trend this year. This same platform is a core feature for clinical notifications.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The DUOS platform aggregates more than 100,000 unique Medicare benefits, local community resources, and government programs, alongside data and programming specific to your plan. category tags: senior living , healthcare , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Events cropped up again in March that help accelerate interest in and ultimately benefit for older adults. One of these was the Longevity Health & Innovation Summit , which featured numerous longevity and technology experts as well as a pitch challenge. Check above links to see full lists from all three. Learn more at Flic.io.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. Platforms matter—they enable data standardization which in turn fuels growth. Platforms matter—they enable data standardization which in turn fuels growth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

Megilla, the video-storytelling platform designed to bridge generations and record treasured stories, announces they are making an early version of its platform free for everyone to connect with family and friends, in a deep and meaningful way, during the quarantine. “"The The benefits of social connection—the antidote—are clear.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. To this end, VA developed Veterans Signals (VSignals), a digital platform to collect feedback from Veterans, eligible dependents, caregivers, and survivors.

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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. Learn more at TomorrowHealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This past week, Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. The ability to ask Mayo Clinic a question or get an update on a prescription will be a notable benefit to older adults who own smart speakers or have phone-based assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 16, 2022

in senior living ), Alexa Together (for remote monitoring in the home) or SafelyYou for fall prevention, AI platforms for care like CarePredict , safety-focused offerings Constant Companion , Aloe Care , social isolation offerings like ElliQ or engagement offerings from iN2L.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Older adults benefit from voice-AI enabled innovation and deployment. And it looks like they will continue to benefit in 2022 and beyond. Advice to seniors seeks to help older adults understand how to benefit from voice while aging in place. Researchers want to understand how best to create a voice assistant. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) have benefited greatly from the acceleration and adoption of technologies such as AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It’s no secret that improving operational workflow significantly benefits staff productivity, satisfaction, and morale as well as care quality.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

Digital Health is in its bubble of $8.1 And that company is quietly pivoting to become a home care consolidator/platform company). They represent a large proportion of health care spending (including tech like the $3 billion PERS market ), and they represent both caregiver and care recipient in that market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2023 News Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

"Curadite empowers patients, clinicians, caregivers and family members to work together to improve medication adherence with the support of our intelligently linked, proactive medication management platform. OrbitaAssist is an award-winning, voice-enabled, AI-driven bedside virtual health assistant. Learn more at echocare-tech.com.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

BellPal , Freedom Guardian , Bay Alarm Medical , UnaliWear , HandsFree Health , FallCall Lite (Apple) – connect to a required response center. However, 2021 will produce progress in multi-wake word detection , even a bit of interoperability across platforms. Voice first technology – in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

Today, perhaps due to pending boomer bulge, innovators and their funders may be having a somewhat easier time, at least in some market categories – health, home care, transportation come to mind. ReemoHealth Remote Mobile Health Platform. Learn more at Reemo Health. Learn more at Oticon. Learn more at Medacube.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Fewer software platforms, but new and more interesting offerings. Second, the proliferation of gadget introductions targeting seniors appears to have slowed down, and the use of standard platforms (smartphones, tablets, computers, smart speakers and smart watches) ramped up. Fewer senior-specific hardware items. Feb, 2018).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

With smaller investment that year, it's good to see that Envoy (concierge service for independent living), Kindly Care (home care agency), Caremerge (home care platform), and Seniorlink (care coordination) are all in their same businesses from 2016 – and others from the period like Envoy and CareLinx received additional investment and moved forward.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. According to studies, among adults aged 70 and older with hearing loss who could benefit from hearing aids, fewer than one in five (20 percent) has ever used them. Why such a small percentage?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Except for the deep-pocketed Medical Guardian which bought ads everywhere , these were all bracelets to help emergency workers determine a health issue. Both platforms are now in position to deliver value and benefit to older users -- and thus the opportunity to speak and be heard. Is there a search problem to solve?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

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.' . category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care.

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