Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Simply touching a picture on the screen starts a video call. An easy-to-read screen displays the date and time and streamlined 3-touch navigation for accessing contacts, placing calls or sending texts makes this smartwatch a snap to use. Learn more. Learn m ore.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

C aavo's TV-connected platform brings video calls, wellness checks and assistance requests to any TV (even if the screen is off) and allows remote control of the TV from anywhere. category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Learn more at Caavo. Learn more at UniperCare. . See recent reports: .

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Pharmaceuticals Telehealth HIPAA 120

Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

When looking at the movers and shakers in the behavioral health arena, it’s hard not to include NeuroFlow in that conversation – especially after last week’s funding boost courtesy of Concord Health Partners. The post NeuroFlow Picks Up Steam With New Growth Funding appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Digital Health Mental health EHR 59

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And this updated information will ideally be available to other medical providers, not to mention senior and home health care companies that will soon see the discharged patient. And some envision a transformation of the physical spaces for care, including new designs of patient rooms that include large screens for telehealth visits.

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Telehealth Nursing Medicare Telemedicine 80

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Worse, for many older adults, isolation is a worsening health issue that we will hear more about as shutdowns continue and shut-in becomes the virtual norm. We’ve seen how technology and innovation in other verticals of healthcare have created better treatments, cost-savings, and health outcomes that have ultimately improved lives.

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eCare Remote care HIPAA Medicare 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Oe in-Car voice technology like Garmin Speak-Plus for directions without a screen (that’s a plus). WellBe Emergency Alert Smartwatch expands on the HandsFree Health voice technology platform with a sleek smartwatch that provides the comfort of emergency support directly through the watch or through the WellBe voice assistant device.

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Telehealth 134

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Those language barriers can discourage patients from making appointments and addressing their health concerns, as well as those of their children. “Parents who did not have paid time off or sick days could not afford to take a day off and address the health concerns of themselves and/or their children. THE PROBLEM.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2023

a) Find your phone, b) accept the text message, c) copy the ‘we will never share your information with others’ privacy token into the appropriate location on the screen. Okay, sort of safe, for already having my identity stolen due to a log-in at a health center during the Anthem breach in 2015. Feeling safe and protected.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Seniors at any tech proficiency level can hear a demonstration of this – and be startled at what can be done without rising from a chair, fiddling with a mouse, or swiping a screen. Our voice-enabled personal health coaches – not so much. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Telehealth 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Now add in the shortage of workers in home care , health care , and nursing homes. Consider the CDC definition of health literacy for individuals – " find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others." Add widgets to your home screen, ditto on the images.

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Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Or in-Car voice technology like Garmin Speak-Plus for directions without a screen (that’s a plus). category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , tech-enabled home care. Here are five examples. Social isolation of older adults – a problem and an opportunity. Read more. .

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Telehealth Remote care Mental health 102

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+). Then, follow along and make the appropriate pinching movements when each musical note floats down the screen." Learn more at FlintRehab.

Digital Health 142

Digital Health Medicare Telehealth 142

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This remains true, said researchers from the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, even after adjusting for age, comorbidities and preferred language. "While telehealth has many benefits, especially during a global pandemic, it may create and/or exacerbate health disparities," wrote the research team.

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Telehealth Health science Primary Care Healthcare IT 157

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

ITRI said the system could serve in industries such as manufacturing, health care and hazardous environment operation." OrCam Read is a first-of-its-kind handheld device with a smart camera that seamlessly reads text from any printed surface or digital screen. Learn more at ITRI. Learn more at Orcam. Learn more at VOY.

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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. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage.

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Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals 212

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2020

BestBuy is the store exception to that rule as the parent company of GreatCall, with its smartphone, which from a price point and easy-to-read screen , is a deal compared to an iPhone. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Telehealth Nursing 124

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Perhaps departments of health can oversee chronic healthcare.

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Telehealth Public Health Mental health eHealth 170

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

Health-related technology adoption. Only 53% of responders had ‘used any of these’ – an d the percentage using technology to track care recipient finances (35%) or health records (30%) was quite low. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Family caregivers. Technology Adoption -- AARP.

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Remote care Telehealth HIPAA Medicare 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

a) Find your phone, b) accept the text message, c) copy the ‘we will never share your information with others’ privacy token into the appropriate location on the screen. Okay, sort of safe, for already having my identity stolen due to a log-in at a health center during the Anthem breach in 2015. Feeling safe and protected.

Medical Billing 69

Medical Billing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

People, animals, plants, and TV screens are not safe with the UVC, but Door Movement Modules hanging on the door s hut t he system down if someone tries to go into the room. category tags: robotics , Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , social isolation , covid-19. The light does not travel through glass. Learn more at MSN. .

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mHealth Telehealth Nursing 105

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This new report has a point of view -- despite surveys that indicate that people use their smartphones (wireless versus " wireline ") to access the Internet, truncated screens can be problematic. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking. Learn more.

Health Technology 88

Health Technology Telehealth 88

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 15, 2020

GreatCall Link helps keep friends and family updated on your health and safety. Similarly, if you and your contact are using Echo devices with screens, you both will see anything within range of your devices." Our aim is to help reduce social isolation in this population and mitigate the associated negative health outcomes.

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Nursing 127

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. As a DPC physician myself, bringing Hint Health and AeroDPC together is extremely exciting and powerful for DPC as a whole” says Dr. Brown.

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Primary Care EMR Digital Health Patient Experience 54

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"Receiving reproductive health care, including early pregnancy termination care, through telehealth is no different." "We were already doing much of the education and screening via some sort of telehealth platform," said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of the St.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Healthcare IT Public Health 172

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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Telehealth EHR Patient Experience HIPAA 66

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 19, 2018

And the sub-topics of categories -- Communication & Engagement, Safety & Security, Health & Wellness, Learning & Contribution – remain as the collective elements of a framework that can make it so. . Looking back at the pre-smartphone time, PointerWare and Big Screen Live were two ways to bring computers and email to seniors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 9, 2018

The Wall Street Journal is not a junk website, but because I used Chrome on a big display screen to search for closet built-ins, the first-displayed ad for one of those companies ate up the upper one-third of the screen real estate. category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 20, 2021

ITRI said the system could serve in industries such as manufacturing, health care and hazardous environment operation." OrCam Read is a first-of-its-kind handheld device with a smart camera that seamlessly reads text from any printed surface or digital screen. Learn more at ITRI. Learn more at OrCam. Learn more at VOY.

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Mobile Health Matters

MARCH 15, 2018

We have already seen digital health solutions that promise to transform patient care in our lifetime. Hospitals can now tag equipment with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology that identifies its status and location. Science and medicine continue to advance at an astonishing rate thanks to technological innovation.

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Nursing EHR Digital Health Telehealth 76

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Better screening of caregivers in its online marketplace, hiring them and dispatching them, initially in California. billion globally in 1300 locations), Interim Health Care (home care and hospice), and Visiting Angels, but including a long list of home care agencies that were in business long before 2016.

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Medicare 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Can you look at a list, for example, of technologies that vendor websites claim are aimed at older adults and their caregivers -- and substitute younger beneficiaries or health care recipients? Transform senior technology products to be health-specific. Here’s a test. Consider further the definition itself. Thoughts welcome!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

It seems reasonable that a device correctly pre-loaded with doses either at the pharmacy, by a home health worker or a nurse in senior living would improve accuracy of dosages. Here are five, in alphabetical order with content from vendors: Hero Health. RxPense is a fully connected, IoT home health hub for today’s aging population.

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HIPAA Nursing Health Data 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. She measures health performance, rewards her users for making progress, collects vitals and conducts in-home examinations." Alma Home. "By

Digital Health 96

Digital Health 96

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

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. Currently expanding throughout Florida."

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mHealth Mobile Health Patient Experience Nursing 111

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. She measures health performance, rewards her users for making progress, collects vitals and conducts in-home examinations." Alma Home. "By

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Digital Health 77

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. Read more. . .

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Connected Health Digital Health 60