Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Despite the significant pressures on services across the NHS associated with our COVID-19 response, and indeed because of them, there has been a significant acceleration of digital transformation across many areas of health in the UK. Looking beyond COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

[Follow the conference on Twitter using the hashtag #PrevCon2021 and the organizational tag @SafeKids]. Among the four key outcomes OECD identifies downstream, social, emotional and cultural capital have been greatly impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. across racial and ethnic lines.

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Mental health Health Data Public Health 170

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last month, long-time colleague and friend Colin Hung interviewed me on the #HITMC broadcast to discuss a lovely recognition I’d received: HIT Advocate of the Year , a program highlighting various friends-in-the-field active in digital health, communications and marketing, sponsored by Medigy. ” “G” is for Gloves.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 26, 2023

Long ago ‘aging in place’ terminology emerged with a different meaning. Long forgotten now, it was briefly in Wikipedia to define the benefit of a continuing care retirement community where you did not have to leave the community if you required higher levels of care. Americans are aging long but not necessarily aging well.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The FCC's COVID-19 telehealth program has awarded $ 200 million in grants explicitly focused on increasing access to care for lower-income populations in inner cities with subsidized and no-cost devices, improved internet access, and data plans. For most health systems, telehealth is work-in-progress at best.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. So Mom or Dad stays at home as long as feasible and even beyond – and that’s why the home care industry today is booming. It’s one thing to read the appropriate coverage in the media about the horrendous mismanagement of Covid-19 patients in New York City nursing homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Every day there is some new article about the impact of Covid-19 on older adults -- or another study turns up that you missed. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking.

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Mental health 131

Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

In particular, the hottest spot appeared to be a nursing home where one resident had been diagnosed with COVID-19 on February 28. The CDC reported in the aptly-named Morbidity and Mortality Report on this long-term care facility in late March, detailing cases among 81 residents, 34 staff members, and 14 visits. O is for outbreak.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. So Mom or Dad stays at home as long as feasible and even beyond – and that’s why the home care industry today is booming. It’s one thing to read the appropriate coverage in the media about the horrendous mismanagement of Covid-19 patients in New York City nursing homes.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What took the FDA (5 years) so long to get to final review of essentially the same technology available in 2017, especially when they were ordered by Congress to do so? And last but not least, are we to believe that the delay between approval in August and the official beginning of OTC sales in October was due to Covid?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Perhaps this is a good long-term sign that there will be more tech minds outside these big firms to allocate to innovation for an aging population that needs new ideas from the best and the brightest. The cost of long-term care. Ask yourself, what care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (with aRyan Elz and Nick Patel , sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries. Also at Argentum, existing tech players added features for Covid-19 and more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

In fact, the latest is an effort across multiple states to grant themselves immunity from Covid-19 civil lawsuits because of a 'shortage of PPE' – unlikely to have been stockpiled just-in-case prior to this wave of publicity. Identifying which nursing homes had Covid-19 cases. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living.

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Nursing 110

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

Regulation shift enabling capabilities in the home and emergency funding for telehealth will persist beyond COVID. Fall-detection sensors have come a long way since they were first introduced in the last decade. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, tech nice-to-haves have become critical. Since the Covid spring, high-dollar government initiatives for seniors have been launched, and others from prior years received an update. Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

On the other hand, a new poll noted the prevalence of ageism for older adults and that other Covid-19 related pandemic – loneliness in late life. Here are the four July posts: Hearing loss: Covid-19 sharpens the benefits of teleaudiology. During Covid-19, do older adults take their prescribed meds? Not necessarily.

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Health Technology Telehealth Medicare 91

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

And yet, post Covid-19, so many government agencies, the White House , universities and for-profit companies want to boost that adoption to mitigate social isolation, boost access to telehealth, nutrition and even a basic, finding health information. Why do surveys of older adults matter? Twelve years later, not much has changed.

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Health Information Telehealth 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

In today’s very competitive post-Covid job market, with all of the associated issues, the home care industry seems ripe for change. Home care has been a long-standing technology laggard, but that may be changing. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. That is a sign. More when there is more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

While COVID-19 has accelerated the shift towards digital health, it has also given rise to a surge in workloads for CIOs and Chief Digital Officers. Region Tag: Global Edition. The 'problem of plenty' for healthcare organizations. Digital health startups, for their part, are fighting to stay relevant.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

Here are four blog posts from February 2021: Aging in place – it’s emerged (again) during these Covid-19 times. So Mom or Dad stays at home as long as feasible and even beyond – and that’s why the home care industry today is booming. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Long ago at a trade show, a vendor was demonstrating automatic fall detection by having a dummy in the booth drop suddenly from a hook. But as news articles note, that is a finite resource, and maybe not available – or redirected to help with Covid-19 hospitalizations. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS , PERS.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Every day there is some new article about the impact of Covid-19 on older adults -- or another study turns up that you missed. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , tech-enabled home care. Social isolation of older adults – a problem and an opportunity. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. The home care market is (still) a booming business. Home care workers are also among the lowest paying and least trained occupations.

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Nursing 128

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 15, 2020

Saving seniors from Covid-19 requires worsening isolation. Echo Show. "Drop In is a feature that lets you instantly connect with an Echo device, including a contact's, as long as they have granted permission for you to do so. category tags: social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Learn more at GreatCall.

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Nursing 127

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

Is telehealth done, long live healthcare? McKinsey consumer sentiments research indicates 35% of home healthcare visits post-COVID could become virtual visits, using remote care technologies that will be HIPAA compliant, noting that three-fourths of consumers surveyed are interested.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. 65 is the new 85 – Covid-19 cultivates elements of ageism. Five older adult offerings in the time of Covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

What has been the impact on them of the daily onslaught of Covid-19 statistics? So 2020 was a year that produced 5 white papers and three long research reports emerge – normally not feasible with so much here-and-there travel. November revealed a growing sense of urgency about older adults. And so it remains a virtual world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Long ago in a city far far away, there was CES 2020. Who knew that Covid-19 was about to take over the world -- and with it, the world of events? during the COVID-19 pandemic. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. It was filled with tech from wall-to-wall and bus ride to bus ride. Learn more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

Covid-19 and its impact and implications, starting early in the month following event cancellations , travel bans and stampedes , telehealth insurance changes and senior living visitation lockdowns. Side-effect: Covid-19 Should Close the Remaining Older Adult Tech Gap. Saving seniors from Covid-19 means worsening isolation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Baby boomers are aging and want to stay in their homes as long as feasible. At the insistence of customers and prospects, technology offerings (beyond telehealth) will be required in all of these settings, especially at home -- and so as long-predicted , they must proliferate and improve. Soon all 54 million of them will be over 65.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But this is January, 2021, in the time of Covid-19 and the time of the all-digital Consumer Electronics Show -- this time with at least 70,000 online attendees from around the world and the tech industry -- and so new companies are surfacing with technologies that will generate interest and even excitement during 2021. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

That was worrisome, long before the term solo agers was coined. And in 2020 (pre-Covid), AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving survey showed that nearly 1 in 5 Americans provided care to a family member with health or functional needs. category tags: Home Care , Family caregivers. Then things got worse. Attachment Size.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (with aRyan Elz and Nick Patel , sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries. Also at Argentum, existing tech players added features for Covid-19 and more.

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