Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Consumers were beginning to be empowered through self-service testing and signs of OTC devices possibly on the way. category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology. Behind the scenes, what kind of lobbying caused this delay? It makes you wonder, given the status of PSAPs and hearing aids noted here in 2018.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The Swedish test was charming – they compared 10 modern touchscreen dashboards to see how easy/fast it was to do certain tasks – changing the radio station, turning on heated seats, lowering the instrument lighting. Do designers actually test a design with users before scaling it up for manufacturing or releasing the new software?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

But new market entrants should find local partners to test product effectiveness before going national. Continuous phone and watch patches should not be expected and indicate inadequate testing. A home security company could help explain the benefits, for example, of care coordination, when selling tech to a home health agency.

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Interoperability Mobile Health EHR 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The same held true for images of workers: while one third (53 million) of the labor force is 50+, only 13% showed them working -- otherwise they were shown at home, with a partner or in a medical setting. And you know that most are not seeking older adults to help test the usability of devices. misses that expectation by a mile.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes have an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 million nationally. Through which building window?

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Nursing 65

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

JANUARY 4, 2021

Molecular screening platforms, multi-gene panel & NGS tests will re-imagine large population cancer treatment pathways – representing an opportunity of some $1.7 Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021 Featured Decision Content:

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Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals 212

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? category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , IoT , Technology - AARP As January’s end, the excitement continues. Stay tuned. ) and so it goes. Read the report.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. 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. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. 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. Home safety.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes has an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 Consider the directives aimed at senior living communities.

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Nursing 53

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Consider hosting a drill where all non-essential staff work from home. Test dissemination methods to ensure they reach your entire workforce. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19 Featured Decision Content:

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EHR Telehealth EMR Telemedicine 183

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. Today, many patients are signing onto the portal to view their test results. For years device and software tech ‘improved’ to a point of widespread optimism about our tech future.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes has an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 Consider the directives aimed at senior living communities.

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Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

And that company is quietly pivoting to become a home care consolidator/platform company). Meanwhile, over at the $30 billion (2018) home care market, a worsening shortage of workers in the midst of demand growth, is creating a recruiting near-panic among agencies, senior living firms and families, and produced.

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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." category tags: CES 2021 , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS , hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology. Learn more at ITRI.

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HIPAA Nursing Telehealth 141

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

How do frontline military doctors successfully consult with surgeons back home when time is of the essence? By testing and implementing emerging technologies, VA is ensuring that Veterans receive the care they deserve. Surafeal Asgedom How do you play pool when one hand is paralyzed? Department for Veterans Affairs.

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EMR EHR Connected Health Telehealth 189

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

New entrants should first form local partnerships to test communication and effectiveness before going national. But what if it is a device that should fit into a Wi-Fi home network with other devices, a printer, a few voice devices, and maybe a camera? Entry into the home. What they have in common?

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Interoperability Mobile Health 69

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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Health Technology Nursing Medicare Telehealth 78

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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HIPAA EHR Digital Health 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

On to dementia – those assists from technology – starting with the smart home. So the tech like home sensors, smart phone apps, tablets, smart pill boxes – aim in this article to help a person living independently (presumably alone). category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , dementia care , social isolation. Possibilities?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

This means that we should be looking for where we can leverage digital solutions to ensure that we have an effective and efficient test and trace scheme in place to close down coronavirus outbreaks as quickly as possible. A much-cited catalyst for change is that the crisis created a common purpose and urgency to make decisions.

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Primary Care Telecare Mental health Interoperability 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Some see a market opportunity in services ( home care , home health care , home remodeling ). Advances are already underway to improve the self-service capabilities for testing hearing , but not to simulate restaurant noise or demonstrate how their specific loss degrades clarity in those environments. User adoption.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

Chatable is available on both iOS (iPhone) and Android, works for many levels of hearing loss, and can be used without the need for a hearing test. category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones. Learn more. Sound Alert. Learn more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In the past, Android-to-Android, I wasted at least a full day customizing all the 'improved' features the way they were on the previous phone, setting up home screens, eliminating bloatware, and downloading apps that did not properly convert. Hopefully, that won't happen again with what no doubt will be more focused testing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

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. And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 30, 2018

See how well that worked – Senator Susan Collins did what many do – she disconnected her home phone number, saying as many do – the ‘Do Not Call’ Registry does not work. So she doesn't have a home phone now – like half of Americans in 2017. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , fraud protection.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Audiologists recognize that their focus may have evolved to provide hearing tests as a process step for fitting an individual with appropriate hearing aids – and perhaps less on providing lower cost options such as teaching coping strategies that may be no cost or low cost. Training people on tactics after self-administered hearing tests.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

ixlayer launched self-testing kits for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function. Patient relationship management platform Equiva unveiled its Connected Home Health Hub. Clinical pharmacy service provider Aspen RxHealth launched its payer platform.

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Medical Billing Mental health EHR Healthcare IT 87

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2020

Perhaps smartphone designers are (still) not reading the testing and usability issues studied and reported by IEEE in 2018. How about surveying illness incidence by age and home ownership, an opportunity for health-related technology use, particularly with the detail of surveyed Wi-Fi ownership.

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EHR Medicare 109

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. Copies that are likely to get lost or buried under other paperwork at your patient’s home. No more phone tag either. You want to grow your business as efficiently as possible.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

These include making greater use of sensors in the home (the so-called Internet of Things) to detect issues with gait and falls. Self-testing websites, OTC hearing aids, amplifiers/hearables. In-home security, Individual motion/movement, cameras. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place. Fall prevention.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They would get frustrated with connectivity issues, inputting information and testing the devices. When UCHealth sent providers home to deliver care virtually, providers lost some of those day-to-day interactions that lead to a sense of team. That sense of team is harder to engender with providers working from home, he added.

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