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Ten technology offerings for older adults from CES 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

iCardioGuard detects heart rate and respiration in three seconds, records the measurements and transmits the collected data to a mobile device by Bluetooth. VitalSight may identify warning signs of a heart attack or stroke before they happen. Learn more at CarePredict. iCardioGuard. Learn more at HandsFreeHealth.

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Tech-enabled home care 2012-2021 -- are we there yet?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. Furthermore, shrinking reimbursement rates for rehabilitation/nursing home stays and reduction in Medicaid coverage boosts risks to those frail elderly who are most likely to be readmitted to the hospital post-discharge and who may be least equipped to take care of themselves.

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Saving Money, Saving Lives: Replacing Emergency Air Transport with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When a medical emergency hits – say, a car accident or a heart attack – no one’s first concern should be about the price tag attached to the ambulance or medical air transport. But the sad truth is that many patients will avoid requesting emergency transportation because they fear the cost.

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What's on the horizon for Teladoc? CIO Claus Jensen weighs in

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

You can't always meet in person with the best oncologist in the world or the best heart surgeon in the world. So imagine this: What if you had one integrated place to go, one way to see all the connections between mental health, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, CKD, and heart failure? Because there's only so many of them.

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Give Me My DaM Data::The Revolution

Society for Participatory Medicine

An example: A template could be an X-ray report that contains the same headings in the same order or a common list of drugs prescribed to patients after a heart attack, To include growth charts, social history documentation, secure messaging with the patient, and scheduling capabilities. Medication lookup engine from RXNorm.