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Pendent medical alerts evolve – and will disappear

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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. Mobile and medications matter. How do I know this? Was that a good thing?

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What use is a PERS smart watch without a call center?

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LifeStation announced Mobile LTE , small and fast, a pendant linked to a sizable 24-hour call center. The new Verizon drops the 'sure' in Sureresponse. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Seniors , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. In January, for example, Parks Associates sized the PERS market to be $1.1 billion by 2024.

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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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CES 2023: Ten New Technologies for Older Adults

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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. The Petnow app is the first app to identify dogs and cats with simple scans on your mobile phone. Aeo is also able to learn the difference between caregivers and patients.

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Tech adoption grows for older adults -- why?

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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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Ten technology offerings for older adults from CES 2021

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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. iCardioGuard.

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Something new -- Apple Watch ad sells fear to the young

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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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