Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Whilst the system used by NHS General Practice is fairly well embedded, there is nothing similar for private practices or for any hospitals or dental services. The hospital sector has been interesting as it has also had to adopt telehealth at an alarming rate, perhaps not with the same agility as primary care, but adoption has taken place.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience Speakers at HIMSS22's Patient Experience Forum discuss the future of the caregiver and patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

These will be prioritized to immunize three target groups: healthcare workforce consisting of service providers, management & support workers in hospitals and social care, adults above 65, and about 45% of adults with comorbidities. hospital margins will improve from Q2 with new revenue innovation and reimbursement transformation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

Note the top trends that matter this Many changes underway in the enabling tech categories for older adults – including the importance of tech for home care agencies – not just the apps for the workers, but for care recipients, such as remote monitoring. Hearing aid users need smartphones and apps.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

To do all of that it helps to have a Killer App as well as fast, reliable Internet. I submit that telehealth collectively is a "killer app" for broadband in this third decade of the 21st Century. Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This medication non-adherence (not filling prescriptions or missing dosages) is a major health issue – resulting in 10% of hospitalizations, 125,000 deaths, and costing the healthcare system up to $300 billion/year. First, a simple app solution can help. category tags: medication management.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hospitals are closing, particularly in rural areas – boosting expectations about care delivery in the home. While professional care providers will play a key role, increasingly their work will be augmented by software -- apps, machine learning and conversational AI. Consider the baby boomer population growth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

MedSign’s flagship product Qortex is the first TV-based telehealth platform that virtually connects hospitals, medical professionals, home care agencies and pharmaceutical companies with their patients 24/7, enabling real-time video, voice, and vital sign monitoring all in the comfort and safety of home. Learn more at Independa. Saltbox TV.

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33 Charts - Digital Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

When I’m on call I’m primed to access Epic at home or in the hospital. At home I keep Epic open and try to enter my phone notes as soon as I complete the call (Epic actually has a great iPhone app). Another case is the critical MRI at the end of the day when I’m playing phone tag with a family. I can’t hear what your saying.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

Information and technology comprise the backbone of smart, digital hospitals and systems. Apps, big data, social, mobile and open APIs foretell disruption that could emerge from inside or outside the traditional health IT space. Collection. What digital transformation demands: The entire C-suite’s influence. by November 28, 2018.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) gets a boost …In the time of Covid-19, in-person patient monitoring becomes nearly impossible unless the patient is in a hospital bed. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. Note United Healthcae’s reimbursement of E-Visits and Virtual Check-ins (including Medicaid patients until June 18).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Mobile phone apps for mental health management have seen a global surge in popularity under lockdown. According to mobile app marketing intelligence firm Sensor Tower, the world’s top ten English-language mental wellness apps generated two million more downloads in April, when the peak of the pandemic was becoming a reality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As Massachusetts continues efforts to promote inclusivity, it has had to take a hard look at Boston’s many hospitals. They live in a virtual world, so this app and the ability to access their care team through text messages [are] much more comfortable." " Dr. Laurie Douglass, Boston Medical Center.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Our founding team, staff, investors, and strategic partners represent expertise and leadership from organizations like: Humana, LabCorp, Intermountain Healthcare, Boston Children’s Hospital, athenahealth, Harvard Medical School, Flare Capital, and Echo Health Ventures. Learn more at Circulation. Learn more at Medisanté.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

Facebook suspended 200 apps today that may have collected boatloads of user data. What apps? And the adoption of digital health by providers – 44 % non-adoption in hospitals. As for consumers, 82% do not use telehealth, explaining why patient depart hospitals with CDs of the medical record. Oh, well, Facebook won’t say.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Now health organizations and providers are moving forward with voice-enabled interfaces to everything from hospital rooms, appointment scheduling, doctors note-taking, prescription requests, and even discharge instructions. In 2019, Voice First represented a category of technologies like smart speakers and voice assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2018

In residential care, a hospital or other places a caregiver isn’t always present, users can benefit from a virtual check in. The device also provides a user-friendly family app that makes it easy for residents and their loved ones to connect with video chat and messaging. Learn more at Toch Smarturns. .

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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. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , dementia care , social isolation. How comforting.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

“The application of Acacia across your healthcare system and workflow helps medical offices and hospitals optimize their entire ordering process and ultimately enhance patient outcomes. Kinesis Balance App. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. Learn more. Learn more. .

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Haleon is using the the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide more detailed labels on more than 1,500 of its consumer health products. DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems. Partnerships.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Furthermore, wearing hearing aids has been linked to fewer hospital visits. Self-care smartphone apps. There is an app for every hearing-related purpose. And the biggest list of all for consumers, the 70+ best apps for each specific use. . category tags: hearing loss , Technology - AARP.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This month’s most obvious change was the introduction of Amazon Care Hub , an Alexa app that can be used to help monitor potentially isolated older adults. But they also have done more work on Amazon Hospitality in partnership with K4Connect (which has rolled out 10,000 Alexa devices to senior living communities). Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK. It is widely acknowledged that WhatsApp is being used across the majority of NHS hospitals. A recent British Medical Journal study of 2,107 doctors across 5 hospital sites revealed 98.9%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

This way, falls and hospitalizations are avoided." FitMi contains two wireless pucks and a therapy app that picks exercises for you tailored to your stage of recovery. And the smartphone app makes it easy to make adjustments -- VoiceBuds are small and comfortable.” When the fall risk is too high, we take the necessary actions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Apps for caregiving have mostly come and gone. The insurance and technology markets are united, so to speak, in the mission of helping older adults stay out of the dwindling number of hospitals , expecting telehealh/virtual care to be an enabler. While there are still specialty tech offerings for older adults (i.e.

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American Well

JUNE 4, 2018

There are dozens of quality smart device apps already available that meet FCC HIPAA standards for privacy. If so, the two machines will be able to share information back and forth, or with apps on patients’ smart devices, as if they were one device. That is, there are no reasons not to do it. So how do you get started?

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American Well

JUNE 4, 2018

There are dozens of quality smart device apps already available that meet FCC HIPAA standards for privacy. If so, the two machines will be able to share information back and forth, or with apps on patients’ smart devices, as if they were one device. That is, there are no reasons not to do it. So how do you get started?

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Telehealth HIPAA Interoperability Telemedicine 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

This way, falls and hospitalizations are avoided." FitMi contains two wireless pucks and a therapy app that picks exercises for you tailored to your stage of recovery. And the smartphone app makes it easy to make adjustments -- VoiceBuds are small and comfortable.” When the fall risk is too high, we take the necessary actions.

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Digital Health 77

American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2017

There are dozens of quality smart device apps already available that meet FCC HIPAA standards for privacy. If so, the two machines will be able to share information back and forth, or with apps on patients’ smart devices, as if they were one device. That is, there are no reasons not to do it. Getting Started with Telehealth.

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American Well

DECEMBER 19, 2017

There are dozens of quality smart device apps already available that meet FCC HIPAA standards for privacy. If so, the two machines will be able to share information back and forth, or with apps on patients’ smart devices, as if they were one device. That is, there are no reasons not to do it. Getting Started with Telehealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Interestingly in a later survey, those with Amazon Echo or Google Home devices and apps used their smartphones less. Furthermore, wearing hearing aids has been linked to fewer hospital visits. category tags: hearing loss , Voice First/AI technology , wearables, smart watch , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Digital front door apps are all the rage. A recent study of more than 50 COVID-19 apps globally found that most were vague about privacy protections on the data collected from consumers using these apps. Nowhere is this fear more prominent than a hospital or clinic setting. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Just as the digital strategy was beginning to take shape, the first COVID-19 patient was admitted to a Geisinger hospital. As social distancing measures prevailed as a primary way to reduce the spread of COVID-19, visitation policies across the hospital changed rapidly in response to (nearly daily) updates in guidelines.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

These may signal not only the next generation of in-home monitoring, but also the next generation of predictive analytics used to help older adults stay longer at home and/or out of the hospital. These sensors monitor your loved ones’ activities and feed information to our app. Learn more at Caregiver Smart Solutions. Forma SafeHome.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

They also keep patients with less severe cases out of hospitals, so preserving precious bed space for patients with severe cases. Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic.

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