Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2024

From the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, throughout 2023 the software industry was full of announcements, all AI, all the time. In addition, 30 entrants have been added to the index of companies. AI is and will be everywhere – in full view and embedded in devices and software. CES 2024 also offered AI everywhere and in nearly every announcement.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

Identify partnerships early (before launching) that can help propel adoption and long-term success, whether commercially or with non-profits. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones Separate user interfaces from physical devices – making software portable across platforms.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Launched CareHub in 2020 – an app that may be yet another beginning. Seeing growth in the use of Alexa devices among older adults, in September 2020, Amazon launched CareHub , an app for adult children to ‘check in’ (sort of) unobtrusively. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers. Before working at Bluesight , she was the interim pharmacy manager at Loyola Medicine – MacNeal Hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

At Intermountain, a health system that serves a sizable rural population in Utah, telehealth programs were launched over a decade ago to extend specialty care in rural clinics. Consider those who reside in rural areas. Today Intermountain is considered a benchmark for serving rural communities with telehealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative launched in 2021 with a splash (and 50 startups) that has widened into an age wave, or a sort of Match.com for age-related companies to find others, including collaborators, sponsors, pilots, and more. category tags: AgeTech , vision and vision technology , robotics , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Meanwhile, in 2010, MobileHelp launched a wireless/mobile pendant – that is one that could be used outside the home. Then it was time to move outside the home and add fall detection -- Halo Monitoring launched the same year Philips got Lifeline, 2006. Mobile and medications matter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Link-age Launch – to connect silos across the care continuum. Link-age announced today the creation of a new connected company, Link-age Launch. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Learn more at Nomo Smart Care. Learn more at www.linkagelaunch.com.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Launch of secure, cloud-based service to provide a better option for people to store and share important documents.Clocr is hosted in the cloud, so users can trust that their information is encrypted and preserved with access only given to contacts and guardians approved by the account holder. Learn more at HandsFree Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You launch the search engine on your phone and are surprised to see all of these ‘news’ items about local topics that have appeared in your Gmail inbox. category tags: smartphones , privacy, security , seniors and aging policy , computers, broadband, and social networking Consider Google and its tightly coupled products.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This followed late-year 2020 activity, including the $10 million in funding for tech training company GetSetUp and the $18 million of funding for Papa from Comcast Ventures to combat social isolation in older adults and launch tech-enabled health offering called Papa Health. category tags: computers, internet and social networking.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Virtual care platform Memora Health launched a pilot with Mayo Clinic to extend care to postpartum patients. ixlayer launched self-testing kits for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function. Clinical pharmacy service provider Aspen RxHealth launched its payer platform.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2023

Philips launched its own Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) offering in 2005 through the acquisition of Lifeline Systems and gave up 16 years later, selling it to Connect America. See latest report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 ] category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has express its concern and launched a " Get Connected to broadband" page in 2018. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Seniors , telehealth. In-home and high-speed access to the Internet is still elusive for many in the US. AARP encouraged access as early as 2013.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

You launch the search engine on your phone and are surprised to see all of these ‘news’ items about local topics that have appeared in your Gmail inbox. Read more. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , vehicle/transportation technology-services , AgeTech Consider Google and its tightly coupled products. How personalized.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Optum, a division of United Health Group , has launched a $3.3 This new report project, launching next week, will attempt to answer that question. category tags: Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , senior living Insurers see the opportunity in care in the home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Since the Covid spring, high-dollar government initiatives for seniors have been launched, and others from prior years received an update. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Technology - AARP , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Will vendors want to cooperate – and who would coordinate? .

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I covered how to include Test data in Production Environments using the HTEST tag. That article explained how data that is not real patient data, that is to say 'test' data, would be tagged with HTEST. Data should be tagged with the PurposeOfUse under which it was collected, and test data is collected for the PurposeOfUse of.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2022

to a deeper examination of preferences that can launch a follow-on set of questions. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2019

By 2016, experiments inside the hospital ecosystem were beginning – KidsMD launched at Children’s Hospital in Boston, a pioneering Alexa skill to help patients and families with generalized wellness advice. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare. Optimism in the healthcare ecosystem remains high.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Alexa Together was launched as a $19.99 Knowing that the older person is alone, maybe they didn’t do ANY activity yet today, so a conversation can be launched (maybe even the old-fashioned way -- via a telephone). category tags: Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

At the end of November, the tech world figuratively-speaking fell over when the staggeringly well-funded AI tool, ChatGPT, was launched by OpenA I , its sponsor and creator.Within five days, a million were giving the tool a try – and who knows how many by now (six weeks later, perhaps more powerful servers are required). ) and so it goes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

When this blog was launched in 2008, the Wikipedia definition of aging in place was described as a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) -- the ability to move from independent living to assisted to skilled nursing. category tags: aging in place , Family caregivers , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Rant off. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

Nobi, a provider of innovative AgeTech solutions, today announced the launch of Nobi Ceiling, a ceiling-mounted version of its award-winning AI-powered Smart Lamps that detects and prevents falls as well as monitors older adults' health and activity patterns. Learn more. Nobi Ceiling. WIM TM makes walking an easy and efficient exercise.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

category tags: vision and vision technology , hearables/hearing technology , smart home , digital health XK300-H measures macro (body motion), micro (breathing motion) and nano (heartbeat) vibration patterns that are constantly generated by our human bodies and is capable of doing so even through objects like clothes and blankets. Learn more.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 11, 2023

Now Accepting Proposals for Disruptive Ideas That Address the Most Pressing Issues Across the Healthcare Landscape PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS To get breaking news, follow the company on Twitter @charmhealth and Facebook at www.facebook.com/charmhealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

At the end of November, the tech world figuratively-speaking fell over when the staggeringly well-funded AI tool, ChatGPT, was launched by OpenAi , its sponsor and creator.Within five days, a million were giving the tool a try – and who knows how many by now (six weeks later, perhaps more powerful servers are required).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative launched in 2021 with a splash (and 50 startups) that has widened into an age wave, or a sort of Match.com for age-related companies to find others, including collaborators, sponsors, pilots, and more. Six mobility offerings from AARP AgeTech Collaborative.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

led insurer Cigna in March 2018 to launch Answers by Cigna. KidsMD, launched in 2016, has been a pioneer in use of Voice First health offerings – offering ‘trusted pediatric content.’ category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

As 2023 began, tech vendors used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch a gaggle of gadgets, not solutions, to mitigate life barriers from hearing loss to limited mobility. For all ages, isolation is increasingly untenable without the technology to connect to others.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

When she is settled comfortably after dinner, she has an online session (launched by her son) with grandchildren using her tablet that is now on her tray table. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Seniors , senior living , seniors and aging policy , covid-19. Perhaps this is already possible in some place you know about.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Launching a new research/report project this month– Voice-AI for Older Adults 2022]. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. In the the next wave, let’s call it Voice 2.0

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This is the first blog post prior to a new report project -- the Future of Wearables and Older Adults 2021 ] launching soon for completion later in the year.]. category tags: wearables, smart watch , digital health , games, fun and fitness. Do tech and service vendors, senior living firms, families and older adults see the potential?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

Then in April, Verizon does it again, launches a PERS, this time a smart watch offering, called the Care Smart Watch for seniors. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Seniors , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Also early in the year, Vidapoint was announced as a 'global' low cost offering.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

When Apple Watch launched in 2015 – pendant PERS (slowly) saw the future. category tags: Mobile PERS , smartphones , wearables, smart watch. With deep pockets, Medical Guardian can afford to develop its own device – and maybe this one's the charm for current customers. Otherwise the market has moved on.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.” was “Barbara.”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In addition to providing doctors with relief from unnecessary administrative burden, patients are looking to DPC for higher quality healthcare with a transparent price tag. The broken system is accelerating the growth of DPC, which saw membership across the U.S. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021.

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