Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from hospitals. Self-diagnosis is increasingly prevalent among the 93% of consumers with access to the Internet. While professional care providers will play a key role, increasingly their work will be augmented by software -- apps, machine learning and conversational AI.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass. The stampede into the home boosted demand for broadband access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from the hospital. Self-diagnosis is increasingly prevalent among the 93% of consumers with access to the Internet. Older adults seek information online about health symptoms – this likely does not boost anxiety about their conditions as much as mitigate it.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

That can be due to a variety of barriers, including fear that they are not using them properly (UCSD study) , lack of internet access (which would limit awareness), low technology literacy ( TechCrunch ), including lack of familiarity with terminology, and physical challenges ( research from MPDI ). Learn more at HandsFree Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 29, 2022

Years ago, it might have been hard to find answers to questions, especially in the midst of an emergency – when a parent is being discharged from a hospital and the home is unsafe. Today the Internet is a rich resource to navigate aging and care. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Data privacy protections will part of solution planning. One of the five key vulnerabilities in healthcare data security is The Internet of Things. Older adults who live alone do not want to be transferred to a nursing home after hospital discharge. Sensor technology will enable moving care from institutions to home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

And survey frequency about Internet access had dwindled over a decade. Frail patients, according to insiders, are increasingly being discharged from hospitals directly to home, bypassing rehab nursing homes. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The home – not the hospital -- becomes the care delivery hub. As the pandemic continued , hospitals were losing $50 billion per month of revenue by June and many went out of business permanently. Providers now envision a care continuum that may extend into ‘hospital at home’ offerings.

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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

MAY 31, 2020

Then hospitals limited admissions in anticipation of an onslaught – and limiting their revenue-generating business – and some shut down completely. In May came the trickling of re-openings and beginning of renewed life, though very different from that previous life. How essential has the Internet been during this pandemic?

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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. Population health data will help identify those at greatest risk of health issues and likely readmission to hospitals (see Figure 1 Table of Categories that may matter). . Internet of Things.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Advancing speech and language applications for the hospital, health and wellness, and pharmaceutical markets, the Utah-based company enhances patient care and outcomes by improving quality of care and quality of life with its patented AI speech technology. WizeCare Technologies. "At Learn more. . . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Or they use 911 as a customer service line – in Alameda County , a caller was looking for a rabbi or another wanted to tell someone that the Internet was down. But as news articles note, that is a finite resource, and maybe not available – or redirected to help with Covid-19 hospitalizations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Tech firms are trying to boost access to the internet and devices – will this become 2021 action priority for non-profits and government? 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). Will that help? Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Advancing speech and language applications for the hospital, health and wellness, and pharmaceutical markets, the Utah-based company enhances patient care and outcomes by improving quality of care and quality of life with its patented AI speech technology. WizeCare Technologies. "At Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

Pew Research notes 53% of responders in April consider the Internet as ‘Essential’ – although, no surprise, the oldest did not. category tags: covid-19 , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , senior living , seniors and aging policy , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. First the confusion.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

He struggles to manage COVID-19 and life outside of the hospital with his sister and mother. Internet search results ranged from a firehose of information to incomprehensible resources. What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. A Texas ICU nurse is hospitalized with COVID-19 after testing negative.

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GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

From specialist shortages to long wait times to transportation barriers, many people around the world don’t live near well-equipped hospitals that provide readily available access to care—leaving rural residents to either travel for care or go without the healthcare resources they need. Four Ways Telemedicine is Improving Access to Care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Health status, including fall risk, recent discharge from a hospital, Parkinson’s, dementia and a host of other factors keep the market thriving. According to Pew , Internet use for those aged 75-79 is only 60%, and it drops to 44% of the 80+. The MobileHelp Smart with the Samsung watch? Well, not exactly.

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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. Units are easily connected to the Internet for communication to caregivers about whether the unit was opened at the right time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Not everyone has access to the internet, some do not have the confidence, ability, access or even interest needed to use digital software and applications in this way. Hospitals nationwide deployed AI-powered CT imaging interpretation tools, helping reduce CT reading time from hours to seconds.

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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. Like many privacy violations and data misuse on the Internet, consumers are usually powerless other than voting with our feet.

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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. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , fall prevention, fall detection , IoT and home monitoring , tablets. This Theora Care duo provides a 2-way communications system between wearer and caregiver.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2018

One of the most intriguing presentations – KidsMD – a Boston Children’s Hospital ‘accelerator’ initiative begun in 2016 and is winning over the staff. The other hospitals in Boston are well aware of the innovation at Children’s, but other than experiments (like one at Beth Israel Deaconess ), nothing of the scope of KidsMD has materialized.

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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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HIStalk Interviews

DECEMBER 17, 2018

I said, boy, there’s an awfully difficult and hard to manage supply chain for drugs inside the hospital, not to mention outside. How are hospitals using Internet of Things and RFID? You typically hear about RFID in hospitals for tracking things that you don’t want to throw away, like capital equipment and people.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Patient-monitoring startup Biobeat said today that the FDA has cleared its patch and watch for measurement of blood pressure, oxygenation and heart rate in hospitals, clinics, long-term care and at home. OrCam Read can be used in any environment, including low-light, and without requiring any internet connectivity. Not yet available.

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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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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 10, 2018

Right now, data about me is controlled by EHR and health app vendors, hospitals, insurance companies, government, and companies with a business model that sells data about me – not me. To be able to pull data from participating hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, and personal health apps. Medication lookup engine from RXNorm.

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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 Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Fixing these problems is an international undertaking, although hospitals can do more to reduce their own waste and carbon emissions (video). The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH. ” (pages 21-22).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

"Like most dissatisfaction, it came down to poor communication nearly every step of the way, whether it be between myself and the patient, staff and the patient, or hospital and the patient." My staff knows to tag me in any questions that are outside the norm so the answer comes from me. Doctor-patient-team relationship.

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