Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

Brennity Senior Living, where a close relative once lived, is terse. category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , senior living , Home Care Carlton Senior Living’s chatbot named Ana offers a similar list of search options, including scheduling a visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

HIMSS23 APAC Healthcare thought leaders, disruptors, and changemakers across Asia-Pacific will convene once again in Indonesia – this time in the country's capital, Jakarta – from 18 to 21 September 2023. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Analytics Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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EMR HIE FHIR Mental health 97

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Once invited, Care Circle members can download the Sundial mobile apps to interact with the Center and each other. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , wearables, smart watch , IoT and home monitoring , healthcare.

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Psychiatry Nursing Telemedicine Telehealth 173

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Digital innovation that might have once taken months or years to be adopted has been integrated into practice in days or weeks as people see and meet the need of the moment. Region Tag: Europe/UK Custom Tags: COVID-19 coronavirus Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: COVID-19 and digital transformation Featured Decision Content:

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Primary Care Interoperability Health Data Telehealth 153

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Once upon a time, a new technology user interface was mostly just annoying. It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes. Simplicity – once the firm’s motto – got lost in translation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Once enacted, establish your new or evaluate your existing IT response structure. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: Additional details can be found on the UW Medicine COVID-19 Resource Site.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 12, 2022

Growth has slowed , but voice usage did not – 46% of Americans are accessing a voice assistant at least once per month. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. Perhaps not surprising, but as of 2022, 36% of Americans own a smart speaker of some type. Thoughts welcome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Now that’s possible, but no longer remarkable once a smart speaker is in the person’s unit and the community has decided to voice-enable itself. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Please add me to today’s trip” or “Could someone fix a light for me?”

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Telehealth 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

You love it, I’m sure, once you created your Skype ID, learned how to sign on and most importantly, sign out. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. You’re ready for telehealth, having used Skype. Oh, you haven’t used it ? and here’s home care. More when there’s more.

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HIPAA Telehealth mHealth Medicare 145

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2022

Many think this is an easy problem to solve, just slap a security tag on the data, but it is a much bigger systems-engineering problem. Such as the above example, once the primary care physician has had the conversation then the embargo should stop. These embargo timeframes can be just a few hours but can also be many months.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2020

Learn more from experts from IHE and ONC as they discuss the collaboration activities with ONC, new and upcoming IHE profiles that support FHIR, how these collaboration efforts will advance interoperability, accelerate the maturity of FHIR, and drive adoption throughout the industry.

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FHIR Interoperability Health Information Health Data 54

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

In January, 2019, the coordinating body for Health IT (ONC) released interoperability advice, connecting people to their care , that requires representing the relationship between a patient and another person (provider, caregiver, or family member). Caregiving demands of an aging population drive policy change in 2019.

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mHealth Interoperability Medicare Digital Health 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Experts have noted that once the basic needs of communication, safety, and health are addressed people have both the need and capacity for more. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is also on a growth trajectory , and will likely grow as a service offered by home care agencies , assuming reimbursement continues. Learning and contribution.

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Medicare Telehealth Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

While the VR session itself is fun and engaging, we get most excited about what happens once the headsets off. category tags: social isolation , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline We’re planting seeds and helping people build relationships - as these relationships grow, loneliness and depression will be left in the dust."

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Nursing 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media. If seniors are being asked to continue physical distancing for the better part of the next year or two, divisions between generations may calcify." . Maybe not, but the language of ageism is alive and well.

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Nursing Public Health 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Technology - AARP , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, tech nice-to-haves have become critical.

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Nursing Telehealth Medicare Digital Health 95

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Despite standards initiatives like Matter in 2022 , or ONC Interoperability efforts, many of today’s gadgets still don’t communicate – especially with each other’s proprietary systems or data sets (like Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Device and app vendors must be capable of integration and extension.

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Interoperability Mobile Health EHR 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

Once you download the smartphone app you can start a conversation by either typing or speaking a message. category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones. Pedius is a communication system that allows deaf people to make normal phone calls. Learn more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

The alert is automatically sent to be verified by the KamiCare 24/7 response team, and once confirmed, immediately sent to the responsible parties via email, SMS or a phone call. category tags: AI and machine learning , Family caregivers , Home Care. The process takes less than two minutes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

Move fast and break things – that was once Facebook’s motto. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , PERS , social media , cell phones, smartphones. Finally, a new and unpleasant context has emerged – misuse, abuse of information about and for seniors, senior fraud , and the failure of background checking by trusted sources. .

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Telehealth 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2019

AudioCardio™ quickly assesses your hearing and delivers a once a day, one hour hearing therapy for your ears. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business. "Our patented and clinically proven Threshold Sound Conditioning™ technology generates personalized audio therapies to help stimulate and strengthen your cells. Learn more at TCare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.” The line will include denim that has flattened seams to reduce pressure points and jeans with wider legs to help with dressing. The back of the jeans will be pocket-less and will have a higher rise. ” The items will be priced between $6 and $29.99

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Healthcare Innovation 220

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

Between boosting the deployment of telehealth technologies, once-delayed initiatives became instantly late. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , social isolation , covid-19 , Aging, ageism. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, tech nice-to-haves have become critical.

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Health Technology Telehealth Medicare 91

TheraNest

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Optimize your meta tags. A good portion of SEO strategy is on the backend of things and meta tags are an important piece. Meta tags are simply short bits of HTML code located in the header of a web page. When a page shows up in a search result, the page’s title tag and meta description are usually shown. No worries.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Perhaps you aren't paying attention -- but once per year, innovations from around the world are presented at CES for comment, media attention, and most of all, seeking interest about what's new (or even just envisioned). category tags: CES 2022 , smartphones , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Interoperability Mobile Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Once the targets of the care plan have been set by the caregiver, pre-built algorithms and event-based notifications allow caregivers to respond to the most critical cases, regardless of the patient's location. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare. Learn more at Medisanté.

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Connected Health mHealth FHIR Digital Health 88

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The big five hearing aid manufacturers will once again remake and remarket themselves, their brands and pricing to fit the new rule. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , computers, broadband, and social networking , fall prevention, fall detection. Ironically that will not actually be official until October. Read more. .

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Nursing Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Many of us have technology that was once useful. category tags: cell phones, smartphones , IoT and home monitoring , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Don’t forget a set of portable batteries – extremely useful for all these devices during power outages. Okay that is enough about the What – and For Whom. .

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33 Charts - Digital Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And once I’m called my mind’s involved. Another case is the critical MRI at the end of the day when I’m playing phone tag with a family. And if I did, you shouldn’t want it. I’m in Tazmania. This has happened while speaking in Australia. A problem arose with a patient who had my number. Let’s try Dr. V.’ But its 2:30 AM Oz time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Video may have killed the radio star (as the Buggles once sang on MTV), but it definitely gave life to telehealth during the pandemic. Follow him on Twitter @cjsettles101 Region Tag: Global Edition Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices Featured Decision Content:

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Medical Billing Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 217

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Perhaps you aren't paying attention -- but once per year, innovations from around the world are presented at CES for comment, media attention, and most of all, seeking interest about what's new (or even just envisioned). category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2019

Once upon a time, in a language far, far away… We used terms like long distance , remote , and telepresence to describe services and experiences that were taking place somewhere else. category tags: VR/AR technology , Seniors , Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care.

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Nursing Pain management 84

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2019

Yet once the task force meetings were over, no entity was tasked (funded) with implementation of the recommendations, leaving it likely that in a few years, the same level of non-adoption, not-quite-there devices, and unsolved problems will remain. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , cell phones, smartphones.

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Telehealth 96

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 16, 2019

.” As part of its rule proposal earlier this year, ONC presented the use of an interoperability standard, called Data Segmentation for Privacy, that would allow vendors and organizations to label certain health information that is transferred between EHR systems as sensitive.

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EHR Health Information Interoperability Medicare 40

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 17, 2019

In addition, there are a number of FinTech offerings (once probably called financial tools) aimed at helping older adults and families manage money and its related dimensions, likely beyond what their traditional bank or investor can or will do. category tags: finance , Fintech , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

Once the tray is placed within Pillo, other over-the-counter medications or nutraceuticals may be added to PAL while inside of Pillo using the user-guided filling workflow; Pillo then updates the pharmacy on the added products." category tags: medication management , covid-19 , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking.

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HIPAA Nursing Health Data 89