Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. So many of the 1.5 Most important?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Consider hosting a drill where all non-essential staff work from home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. On the other hand, Health 2.0 Here’s telehealth – no requests for help at this time, here’s diagnostics (see Stanford, testing all 3 types of virus!) and here’s home care. This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5 More when there’s more.

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HIPAA Telehealth mHealth Medicare 145

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The chances are good that their family member can remain at home through early stages, even continuing to live alone Even after a diagnosis, they'll continue to wonder whether it really is dementia and look for another test they can do at home. GreatCall Lively Home MedMinder , PillPack Ring Nest. Tech Categories.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A few simple test questions ‘(how do families fund nursing homes?’ Can AI be useful in the older adult markets of home care, senior living and beyond? In other wrap-up non-surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. Stay tuned.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Certainly ccess has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. Restaurants and health facility check-in are but two examples. Today, many patients are signing onto the portal to view their test results. The patient portal(s) one for every insurer and medical practice.

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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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Digital Health 85

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

It also features ITRI's LPMS (Low Power Microwave Sensor) technology, which passed the FDA-level electromagnetic wave radiation EMC/EMI test by the IEC60601-1/IEC60606-2 regulation." FallCall Detect This program is for everyone who takes their overall health seriously and wants to try to prevent a heart attack or stroke.

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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. How do frontline military doctors successfully consult with surgeons back home when time is of the essence? Department for Veterans Affairs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

New entrants should first form local partnerships to test communication and effectiveness before going national. Two-factor authentication will likely be required as part of all online apps, including financial and health-related services. Entry into the home. Technologies must be well-supported and intuitive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"Receiving reproductive health care, including early pregnancy termination care, through telehealth is no different." Patients are initially evaluated via the clinic's InTouch platform to determine whether they need additional in-person testing, such as an ultrasound or a blood test.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Maybe believe this one: could there be 50 million smart speakers in US (possibly with some homes having more than one)? On the other hand, according to Pew Research, only 66% of the 65+ (46 million) are broadband (that is, high enough speed) users to enable a smart speaker in the home. Perhaps non-users are in rural areas.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

The good news – this week’s Health Care Technology supplement transcended the limits of doctors and hospitals – and dabbled in the dilemmas of elder care – included technology to assist those with dementia and mitigate loneliness. Skip the tech – listen to the experts interviewed – first robots. Possibilities? Says Dr. P.

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Nursing 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Some see a market opportunity in services ( home care , home health care , home remodeling ). Some see housing opportunities or changes to make age-friendlier communities , and some see looming health costs associated with the 50 million individuals now aged 65+. Hygiene – including oral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Haleon is using the the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide more detailed labels on more than 1,500 of its consumer health products.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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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. Experts also see the trend in self-care for all types of health concerns now includes hearing loss. Training people on tactics after self-administered hearing tests.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. They would get frustrated with connectivity issues, inputting information and testing the devices. " Dr. Lisa R.

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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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In Hand Health

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

You don’t want to waste any of that precious time scanning copies, printing exercises, or playing phone tag trying to communicate with your patients. The In Hand Health Solution does just that in several ways: Full media communications all in one place. No more phone tag either. Request an invitation to try In Hand Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 18, 2018

Remember the Alpha test, when the product barely worked at all. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , home health care , entrepreneurship. Think back on the cycles of tech deployment. And what characterizes a pilot from an experiment from phase one of an actual deployment?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

The boom in home care has side effects -- turnover and risk. We want to trust home care workers with aging parents. Given expanding life expectancies at age 65 – an average of 20 more years for men and more for women, the possibility of ‘aging in place’ in a private home may be growing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Or creating a folding phone (without much testing) with a screen that breaks within days of announcement. The upshot – 54% will be unable to pay the $60,000 average annual cost of assisted living (make that $93,000 in Washington DC), even if they sell their home. category tags: VR/AR technology , cell phones, smartphones , tablets.

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Telehealth 71

Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Now there’s exciting news of a laser glucose monitor that is as accurate as home blood glucose monitoring kits. The next step is to shrink the technology, as few people have the space in their homes for a laser lab. The researchers found that the laser readings held their own with the blood samples in blood sugar accuracy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

To meet those demands, organizations should prioritize the creation of convenient digital-first environments that satisfy all parties involved in providing health care services. On top of that, many employees now prefer to work from home, creating a vacuum that healthcare companies find hard to fill.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault when it crashed with a bus. in health care. But the drone, presumably would drop off the food outside the home. Deliveries inside the home? category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault when it crashed with a bus. Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' Do they transition into home care, home health care, or senior living, which can’t find enough workers? Into health care?

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Public Health 48

GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The black market price tag of stolen protected health information (PHI) can go for $60 a record, compared to roughly $1 for a credit card or social security number. Tested and Trusted: GlobalMed Security. Third-party penetration testing. Healthcare’s Insecurity Complex. Data Loss Prevention (DLP).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

The purpose was unchanged – and the limited representation of tech in the exhibit hall may hint at the peripheral role that technology use continues to play in these senior-focused jobs, despite the tech disruption this past year of voice first technology , or the availability of cheaper/smaller wearables and offerings for the smart home.

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Public Health 59

Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are a member of S4PM , perhaps it was at CES or HIMSS or Health 2.0 In a similar vein, there was the Mayo Clinic and their list of 146 dubious tests, and Victor Montori in JAMA exploring the early big data returns on the first few years of #SDM (shared decision making) and the use of more formal decision aids for doctors and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. There are many places in the U.S.,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 20, 2024

And did we mention health care sites? All I want is the result of blood test, presented in an explainable way, not just “HIGH”. But the audience can always stay home. Now consider a future in which you ask for the best way to do just about anything, including triage of the symptoms of your own health status.

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Patient Experience 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through cameras installed inside the household, the solution can detect the motions and postures of beloved family members with AI and release warning messages at the moment of danger, such as falling, sitting too long, leaving home without a clear reason, etc. the app will give off an alarm to notify all family members. Not yet available.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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