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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. on care at home programs, gathering evidence and learnings across the various programs.

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Care coordination for older adults – still elusive, does tech help?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Would a care coordination system in healthcare link to home and home care? One might wonder – how many of those discharges included transfer of the electronic medical record data that collected in the hospital? And how many discharges from post-acute facilities to home care might transfer data in a usable way?

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges. of remote patient monitoring patients comply with.

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The Nursing Home Closure Debacle – does it help anyone?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

It's news -- 600 nursing homes closed so what’s the strategy to fix? You may have read this depressing article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the number of people stuck in hospitals with no place to go because there are no nursing homes to take them – which is the status in the UK’s the National Health System (NHS).

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Four observations from AI and the Future of Care Work research

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022. Hospitals are closing, particularly in rural areas – boosting expectations about care delivery in the home. Virtual sitters with telehealth support are replacing the in-person in-hospital 24x7 monitoring of at-risk patients.

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RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Inefficiency

Healthcare IT Today

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

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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