Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 9, 2020

And 90% of hospitalized patients identified through COVID-NET had one or more underlying conditions, the most common being obesity, hypertension, chronic lung disease, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease. NOTE: If you receive this in email, click on the website directly at ageinplacetech.com to view other research and articles.].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. So one-third of the 85+ are not, actually, aging in place. Senior living occupancy dropped to just 79.5% By 2013, The U.S. But of these older adults, 6.5

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Nursing 119

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Now, we’re bringing transformative technology to one of the most needed, fastest-growing markets — home care." Zeppi lets you easily "drop in" for spontaneous chats, visual check-ins, and quick consultations around the tens of issues that arise every day. Learn more at eCaring. GetSetUp.io Learn more at Zeppi.

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eCare Remote care HIPAA Medicare 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2019

Non-users, particularly broadband, are thus on one side of the so-called digital divide. category tags: smartphones , computers, internet and social networking. As brick-and-mortar based businesses dwindle in favor of online, access to smartphone and broadband are becoming the enablers of information flow to older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Probably given the Q1 profit drop, they had to do something about the steep revenue decline of their Personal Health businesses. One positive -- it validated the business strategies of competitors, including the two Stanford MBAs that bought VRI in 2007. How do I know this? Was that a good thing? Mobile and medications matter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Amazon's Alexa Together was introduced at the very end of 2021 (just over one year ago!) This was one of a series of ‘ambient’ offerings in the market ( Vayyar Care , KamiCare , and Origin Wireless , among others). It could alert based on activity – and also based on no activity – still in bed? Perhaps unwell?

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Telehealth 80

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 7, 2021

This question was asked on a recent Edelman Trust Barometer , responder age was capped at 64. And the survey showed that the largest drop in trust for a category from 2020-2021 was in technology ( summarized here in a single graph ) – for some, not trusted. Do consumers trust technology? Not so much -- just ask them.

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Public Health 116

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

My daughter pressed the emergency button by accident’ – as many as 10% of calls, by some reckoning in one county. 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. And none of the published articles about this travesty, uh, calls them on it. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With Amazon’s Care Hub, users can receive notifications of their loved ones’ own Alexa interactions to monitor their activity throughout the day or ensure they have been reminded to take their medication, for example. A user can also “drop in” on a loved one by video calling them within the app.

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Telehealth 134

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

The new Verizon drops the 'sure' in Sureresponse. In 2014, the year Verizon stopped selling Sure Response, this blog coined the term 'Real Senior ' to mean those aged 75+, half women living alone, likely not working, having one or more chronic conditions, including the possibilities of hearing loss, vision issues.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Its appendages are strong enough to lift an 8-pound cooler and gentle enough to hold a phone without dropping or crushing it with its mechanical robot arms. As XanderGlasses don't rely on smartphone or cloud connectivity, they are remarkably reliable and perfectly private. Jesse Joonho Lim, the founder of Petnow Inc. Learn more.

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Digital Health Pain management 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Big tech companies seem to be suffering from the lemming effect – if one conducts a wave of layoffs, the pressure is intense to shrink the corporate staffs , address poor performance (of staff? category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning.

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Telehealth 69

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today. Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged.

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Life Science Health Information EHR Leadership 78

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But before we dive into the startups next week, here is one more look at 2022 – what was notable that could/might/will serve and help older adults? category tags: smartphones , smart home , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , fall prevention, fall detection. For those attending, tennis shoes will be required.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

CES 2021 – roll the press releases and turn on your computer. A long time ago, one writer published a charmingly-named CES overview of CES 2012 called CES in Pajamas – an entertaining read with links to 2012 videos just to see what flopped, what was canceled (remember Microsoft Kinect ?) and what/who is still around. MightyHealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

One of the upsides of Voice First offerings like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant – updates occur on the other side of the Internet wall, in the so-called Cloud , done in one place the user just accesses. category tags: cell phones, smartphones , IoT and home monitoring , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. And what about.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe the larger library branches designate reading rooms or purchase telehealth kiosks so that patrons can schedule a time or drop in to have private, secure telehealth sessions with their doctor in "real time." Re-imagining what hospital care can be, one of the few good things learned from the pandemic.

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Telehealth Public Health Mental health eHealth 169

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

CES 2020 saw several exhibit areas and innovations focused on older adults and what they need. This past week, Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. Smartphone market saturates – and some prices drop.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2018

Voice reminders and voice ‘drop-in.’ In those cases where an Amazon device is at two locations, one person can ' drop in ' to check on another. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , IoT and home monitoring. This might mean setting up an Amazon Echo (Dot or Show) for in-home use.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 9, 2018

Consider that its share price and profit of $61 million in Q1 2018 are tied to growth in ‘legitimate human users -- the only ones capable of responding to the advertising that is the main source of revenue for the company.” Did you know that the company dropped that ‘Don’t Be Evil’ phrase from its code of conduct in May?

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Probably given the Q1 profit drop, they had to do something about the steep revenue decline of their Personal Health businesses. The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. How do I know this?

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Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 105

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2019

Pew surveyed and noted that technology use drops off in the older age ranges. It is not only design that keeps non-adoption percentages so high, but it is one factor. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , cell phones, smartphones. Everything else is too hard. Of course, it isn’t just that phone.

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Telehealth 96

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In Medical Economics’ 2022 annual survey , providers said increased competition is now one of their top challenges, namely because today’s patients are increasingly willing, for reasons of convenience, to switch doctors. When you automate your phone system, patients spend less time waiting on hold and playing phone tag.

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Telehealth EHR Patient Experience HIPAA 65

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

Focus on socialization has meant that even those that made it most of the way into the market, like Jibo, spent $73 million and collapsed. Or did Amazon (and Google) solve that with its line of Echo devices, reminders, notifications, and drop-in calls? Was socialization the right caregiving problem to solve?

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Digital Health 82

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Tracking heart rate is one of the most basic functions of wrist-worn wearables—and a basic element of tracking includes knowing the target (and maximum) heart rate ranges for your particular age group. Although it may sound sensible to contact 911, those responders have complained about false alerts from accidental taps on the watch.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Then, one day, you are just too tired to get up from in front of the television. My childhood became one requiring constant monitoring of myself and by the adults in my life. Other children would drop their backpacks wherever and whenever they pleased. Your tummy hurts and your dry skin is flushed.

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Nursing 84

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

It also features a GPS tracker and camera which helps the caregiver keep a track of their loved ones. In case a loved one is confused or lost, the caregiver can calm him down and help guide him to safety." In case the MedaCube is tilted, dropped, or mishandled, the unit locks down and sends an alert to the caregiver."

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mHealth Mobile Health Patient Experience Nursing 111

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at?Columbia "After patients are discharged, they typically become a guest at our lodge for one night before they return home," Lovewell explained. " Then there are lower readmission and infection rates.

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Nursing Patient Experience Pain management Remote care 117

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault when it crashed with a bus. Because Google says it was a ‘misunderstanding in the car’s software and from now on, the car will understand that large vehicles and buses will be less likely to yield.’. . And Amazon has filed patents on drone delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today nobody can seem to survive without their cell phone, tomorrow no one in healthcare will tolerate a disconnected system any longer. . Their early involvement as one of the initial implementers of Carequality serves as a precursor to TEFCA. We’ve been there from the beginning,” said Bell.

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Interoperability FHIR EHR Healthcare IT 58

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Probably given the Q1 profit drop, they had to do something about the steep revenue decline of their Personal Health businesses. The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. How do I know this?

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Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 48

Import Immunity

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Like, if one pipette is good, then a ton of them must be even better, right? The Analyzer is built on top of these same concepts, so you see data in the right context, without having to do a bunch of manual pre-processing. Researchers can draw from our rich library of tags, or create their own as needed.

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BioTech 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Takeaway: Niche offerings for seniors remain because the ‘intuitive’ user interface isn’t really and no one wants to be made to feel stupid. category tags: Aging technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , smartphones, cell phones. Separate user interfaces from physical devices.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Then, one day, you are just too tired to get up from in front of the television. My childhood became one requiring constant monitoring of myself and by the adults in my life. Other children would drop their backpacks wherever and whenever they pleased. Your tummy hurts and your dry skin is flushed.

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Nursing 48

GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A family struggling to afford one sick child’s care may also skip preventive care or required services for other family members. About one in three heart patients with financial hardship from their medical bills had to cut back on food or go without their required medications. But given that U.S.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 5, 2018

So far during the first six months of the year, more than $100 billion has been spent on a myriad of acquisitions across the pharma and biotech industries. One reason so many predict heavy M&A activity is the passage of changes to the U.S. The deal for Impact wasn’t the only one undertaken by Celgene.

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BioTech 40