Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

AI will likely be part of the next generation of user interfaces for all types of interactions – including health questions. Answers to questions online are as good as the source data – which is often flawed or lost in the descending order of retrieved web links. AI chatbots will be built into senior living concierge services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Restaurants and health facility check-in are but two examples. Today, many patients are signing onto the portal to view their test results. So now many health systems are charging for use of online portals that provide a way to engage with the physician, for example, responding to messages in MyChart , the EPIC software portal.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Of all industries, health care above all should provide accessible web sites to support people with disabilities or special needs. Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. are great advances.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A few simple test questions ‘(how do families fund nursing homes?’ AARP sponsored an entire large area for its AgeTech Summit – talks and displays of new tech for an older adult market, cataloguing participants in an online directory. category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , IoT , Technology - AARP Read the report.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

This year it is a hybrid event -- with some folks in person, some watching online and others lurking among the press releases. Depending on the product or service, it may need a mix of resellers/distributors, face-to-face, and online sales. Privacy and security features will be built into design of software and websites.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. Experts also see the trend in self-care for all types of health concerns now includes hearing loss. Recognizing this, retailers – in store and online – see a business opportunity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2020

From an economic standpoint -- what will they (or their families) spend money on, how is their health, what is the cost of their care, where do they live? Perhaps smartphone designers are (still) not reading the testing and usability issues studied and reported by IEEE in 2018. As for tech adoption…the AARP executive summary is upbeat.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"Receiving reproductive health care, including early pregnancy termination care, through telehealth is no different." Patients are initially evaluated via the clinic's InTouch platform to determine whether they need additional in-person testing, such as an ultrasound or a blood test.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Haleon is using the the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide more detailed labels on more than 1,500 of its consumer health products.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Here’s a test. Can you look at a list, for example, of technologies that vendor websites claim are aimed at older adults and their caregivers -- and substitute younger beneficiaries or health care recipients? Transform senior technology products to be health-specific. The guidance was pointed, but was the point achieved?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pajama-like clothing is the only way to consume the content vastness of this entirely online Consumer Electronics Show with 500 exhibits, 70,000 registered attendees, and 3 full days of sessions, many pre-recorded, some live. Laptops were hot (remember the Ultrabook?) Voice First and the Apple Watch had not emerged. Fast forward to 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

Add to that, state-by-state, the National Guard is being brought in to disinfect nursing homes or assist with Covid-19 testing. Combine staffing information, offer aggregate information about health status of residents, and create predictive analytics about where future issues may emerge. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

Digital health tech for providers and consumers, current status is bleak. We may have online access to our tests results – but only those that are from the same system. We may have online access to our tests results – but only those that are from the same system. More to the point, they may WANT to visit the bank.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The research report, Voice, Health, and Wellbeing 2020 has now launched and interviews are underway. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. Here are the blog posts from August for consideration: Wearables for Health and Wellbeing. What to make of all this? Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. But for a disease free quality of life in their later years, they will they need to fix lifestyle and health issues that did not characterize their parents. Digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 12, 2018

That price includes a hearing test, fitting, initial batteries and more. Retail stores, online websites offer PSAPs for buyers who adjust the device themselves – the which the FDA calls the ‘audio version of reading glasses.’ category tags: hearing loss. Why do hearing aids cost so much?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Or creating a folding phone (without much testing) with a screen that breaks within days of announcement. The issue of non-adoption, particularly as more health services move online, will become increasingly vexing for service providers of all types. category tags: VR/AR technology , cell phones, smartphones , tablets.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

Whether it is new data from Pew or AARP , some older adults refuse or are unable to use newer technologies, whether it is smartphones, online banking services, or (perhaps especially) social media. They may not be interested in being the first to test a new gadget or service. Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault when it crashed with a bus. Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' Do they transition into home care, home health care, or senior living, which can’t find enough workers? Into health care? Not a chance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. They would get frustrated with connectivity issues, inputting information and testing the devices. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are a member of S4PM , perhaps it was at CES or HIMSS or Health 2.0 In a similar vein, there was the Mayo Clinic and their list of 146 dubious tests, and Victor Montori in JAMA exploring the early big data returns on the first few years of #SDM (shared decision making) and the use of more formal decision aids for doctors and patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. A brief background about myself and my practice: I am an occupational medicine physician working under a not-for-profit health care system. To test this assumption, I surveyed my patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

This gigantic parade of the international new and now possible can be perused online in detail (and perhaps more usefully) without walking a step or sniffing cigar smoke. The Zibrio SmartScale measures balance with a simple, safe, 60-second test. That was CES 2020. Learn more at Zibrio.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2021

As your company gets ready to travel into an online event battle with a plethora of pitches , it is time for a quick review of this guidance. Not a PDF file, not a Word file, but a viewable (online) press release with links, that will be found under your website category of PRESS, MEDIA or NEWS. Let's not disappoint them. .

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Chilmark Research

JULY 13, 2015

It’s not every day that health-related news from Google gets buried, but recent headlines about the Supreme Court upholding a key provision of the Affordable Care Act and the nation’s largest insurers playing matchmaker seem to have relegated Google’s planned health-tracking wristband to the proverbial back page of the Internet.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today or soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. Not a PDF file, not a Word file, but a viewable (online) press release with links, kept under 1 page, that is found under your website category of PRESS, MEDIA or NEWS. Let's not disappoint them.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. Not a PDF file, not a Word file, but a viewable (online) press release with links, kept under 1 page, that is found under your website category of PRESS, MEDIA or NEWS. It’s 2019 and in full sprint to the year-end finish.

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