Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Its rapid response underscored the importance of preparing to address unique IT challenges associated with viral outbreaks. Those challenges include the need to rapidly expand telemedicine capabilities, shifting a large portion of hospital staff to teleworking, and immediate changes in the electronic health record to support COVID-19 care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Approximately half of the older adult population has a smart TV – a common platforms used to stream Internet services without an associated specialty box like Apple TV , Roku or Chromecast. category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Learn more at Independa. Learn more at UniperCare. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. . Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. The proliferation and cost-effective delivery of technology—including associated set-up and usage training—will give birth to many new innovations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

To build this chart, interviews were conducted that included senior execs from Philips, the VA, Visiting Nurse Services, home care associations, Home Instead, Volunteers of America, and several home care organizations. This will include a look at home health care, home care, and the discharge processes from hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Yet, it took the desperation associated with a pandemic to bond like-minded team members to collaborate in order for telemedicine to become an innovative mainstay in the delivery of patient care. It's the secret sauce. For example, technology has advanced to support new methods of delivering care such as evolving telemedicine efforts.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

Consider that older adults remain in hospitals and rehab facilities because there are no workers to help them with care at home. In today’s very competitive post-Covid job market, with all of the associated issues, the home care industry seems ripe for change. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Among the 30 interviewees across 28 organizations, including Microsoft, AARP, Best Buy Health, Home Instead, and the Consumer Technology Association, here are a few of the themes that emerged from these conversations: Connection matters – tech connectivity is a pre-requisite. The home – not the hospital -- becomes the care delivery hub.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions. billion bid for home health company, Amedisys , part of a trend to move as much care from the hospital to home. Even hospital systems see the importance of moving treatments into the home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

The pictures associated with some of these introductions of technology were bleak. Let’s imagine a scenario: "Following discharge from the hospital after hip replacement, Mrs. Smith is brought by ambulance to the rehab wing of a local skilled nursing facility. Ending the era of no-tech to at least some tech. If so, please comment.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While their increased retirement has been anticipated, the associated timing compounded staffing challenges within the healthcare industry and left leadership seeking solutions. In addition to impacting the patient’s care, hospitals nationwide collectively lose ~$150 billion each year from missed appointments.

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David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

The American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation recently released a report forecasting the revolutionary changes that retail firms and tech giants will bring to healthcare delivery in 2023 and beyond. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 This can be a potential opportunity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Patients with chronic diseases or those who are discharged from hospitals may benefit from the use of RPM technology to monitor significant chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension or congestive heart failure, and especially to avoid a recurrence of an issue that would require readmission. . Passive: Remote monitoring of activity.

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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. If I’m dispensing an odd compounded medication that I know is problematic to fill, I don’t want my on-call associate to have to try to sort out what I wanted while the family waits at the pharmacy. At a moment’s notice I can see what’s going on.

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GlobalMed

MAY 28, 2019

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. Instead, they call an Uber or ask a family member to come home from work and drive them to the hospital. Consider Summit Hospital in Arizona.

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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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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. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. Approximately 59% of BMC’s patients come from underserved populations, it reported.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office. And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially. This is due in part to U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Meta (how tiresome, we know it is Facebook) has been sending patient data from hospital systems back to Facebook (appointments, doctor, and a host of other patient-specific data) through the use of a tracking pixel. By 2018, more technology (and associated improvements) could be found in the Cloud. Never a dull moment in tech world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2019, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has sized the 'active aging' technology market as reaching $29.8 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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

The annual conference of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) convened this week, and I was grateful to attend and speak on the evolving retail health landscape yesterday. Edelman’s health industry segments for this study are pharma, consumer health, insurance, biotech/life science, and hospitals.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

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+. Use smart-home technologies to monitor for improvement, prediction of disability or prevention of functional decline – before an individual falls and is re-hospitalized.

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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. In addition to fall detection, the MyNotifi app assists in fall prevention with 38 American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) certified physical therapy exercises." Learn more at MyNotifi.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 30, 2020

The new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School and the American Board of Family Medicine attempts to put a price tag on that hit by running a microsimulation for projected 2020 revenues based on volume data for general practices, general internal medicine practices, general pediatric practices and family medicine practices.

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David Chou

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Private hospitals are one way in which healthcare market expansion can be accommodated and I have been talking with a few private hospital investors in the region. Public hospitals are expected to maintain a dominant position in China's system. The trust of the citizens are still with the public hospitals at this moment in time.

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Patient Experience 40

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

Furthermore, wearing hearing aids has been linked to fewer hospital visits. Experts believe that it is a combination of denial, belief that hearing loss is not severe enough, perceived stigma associated with wearing hearing aids, and a perception that they cost too much. Why such a small percentage?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Furthermore, wearing hearing aids has been linked to fewer hospital visits. Experts believe that it is a combination of denial, perceived stigma associated with wearing hearing aids, and a perception that they cost too much. category tags: hearing loss , Technology - AARP. Why such a small percentage?

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA), which has long advocated for widespread use of telemedicine, praised the CMS for opening the door to greater access to telemedicine. In fact, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently analyzed how all 50 U.S. Below are excerpts from that interview.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Furthermore, wearing hearing aids has been linked to fewer hospital visits. Experts believe that it is a combination of denial, belief that hearing loss is not severe enough, perceived stigma associated with wearing hearing aids, and a perception that they cost too much. Why such a small percentage?

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The bright, kaleidoscope of childhood is replaced with a blur of hospital images: doctors frowning with concern and talking in low, serious voices; nurses looking at you like you were the walking dead; endless medical tests; waiting rooms and gurneys behind curtains; and, of course, the needles. Your tummy hurts and your dry skin is flushed.

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Nursing 84

Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The bright, kaleidoscope of childhood is replaced with a blur of hospital images: doctors frowning with concern and talking in low, serious voices; nurses looking at you like you were the walking dead; endless medical tests; waiting rooms and gurneys behind curtains; and, of course, the needles. Your tummy hurts and your dry skin is flushed.

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Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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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 scientists and government officials continued to uncover how COVID-19 spreads and its associated symptoms, it became critical to have timely and reliable communication channels that reached our communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

More than video conducts with doctors, it’s using Internet and intranet technologies to facilitate many medical activities associated with healthcare and wellness of the body and mind. They have equipment that help responders communicate with hospitals, clinics and so forth so they can triage and manage injuries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

A recent survey by the Association of Community Health Plans also indicates that nearly 90% of consumers who used telehealth for accessing care were satisfied with their experience. Nowhere is this fear more prominent than a hospital or clinic setting. The future of telehealth seems assured.

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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. “Some of the advantages are logistical, and include the elimination of a commute to work and the associated costs,” he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Dr. Katharine Smart is the President of the Canadian Medical Association and a pediatrician in Whitehorse, Yukon, one of the more remote northern provinces in Canada. Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ]. Technology + Physician Retention.

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