Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While sometimes incorrect, self-diagnosis is here to stay. Health risk identification moved away from institutions to the pharmacy and home. Between 60 and 80% of adults have searched online for health information. 80% of what happens to our health happens outside a medical setting.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. 9amHealth is addressing this challenge by providing affordable cardiometabolic care at scale and helping to manage the rising costs of GLP-1s for both patients and employers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Health risk identification moves away from institutions to the pharmacy and home. See the new report, AI and the Future of Care Work 2023 - The Rise of the AI Caregiver] category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , Home Care , home health care , senior living

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

And according to the Pharmacy Times , Covid-19 has made a problematic situation much worse. Some pharmacy experts express concern about the pandemic’s side effects of isolation, job loss/loss income, medication costs, missed or unavailable doctor’s appointments, or issues with package delivery. PilloHealth Pharmacy Autoload (PAL).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

For instance, we commonly seek those with nursing, pharmacy, revenue cycle and physician experience as part of our recruiting process. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

And this week, it extended its reach into prescription drugs, built on its PillPack acquisition, to create Amazon Pharmacy. . category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

And according to the Pharmacy Times , Covid-19 has made a problematic situation much worse. Some pharmacy experts express concern about the pandemic’s side effects of isolation, job loss/loss income, medication costs, missed or unavailable doctor’s appointments, or issues with package delivery.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Professional services available on Independa include Dentulu (online dental consultation), Capital Rx (discount pharmacy platform), Coverdell (dental insurance benefits), WebMD (medical grade educational videos) and Sprio100 (fitness programs for seniors)." category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Smartphones, with their long lists of accessibility (for iPhone and Android ) features, are a must for anyone who leaves the house, has hearing loss, low vision, gets lost, searches for a pharmacy, needs an ambulance or doesn't believe that dumb Apple ad asserting that the watch does it all.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

They then persisted with a Medication dispensing device that has been eclipsed by others, including pharmacy-connected MedMinder and Amazon-owned Pillpack. category tags: PERS , Mobile PERS , wearables, smart watch , fall prevention, fall detection. Mobile and medications matter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The ability to aggregate data from other hospital information systems: These could be data aggregated from multiple sources, including labs, pharmacy, sensors, and valuable clinical-decision support (CDS) to track patient information to manage chronic diseases proactively. Dr. Joyoti Goswami is a Principal Consultant at Damo Consulting.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.” As most women manage their households, health care marketers should never forget that, increasingly, as patients become payors, a prescription drug fill at the CVS pharmacy in Target may compete on the day with a great pair of Universal Thread jeans.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Clinical pharmacy service provider Aspen RxHealth launched its payer platform. DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems. Patient relationship management platform Equiva unveiled its Connected Home Health Hub.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For those taking pills for managing Type 2 diabetes, locking medication containers from MedMinder Pharmacy or Philips may be useful. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Although some would say that Americans take too many pills , for many, medication is critical to health and wellbeing—especially diabetics.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

" The free app serves as a point of coordination for a patient’s family and friend caregivers to organize tasks such as dropping off groceries, picking up medications from the pharmacy, virtual check-ins and emotional connections." Learn more at ianacare. MightyHealth. Learn more at HandsFreeHealth.

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33 Charts - Digital Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

If I’m dispensing an odd compounded medication that I know is problematic to fill, I don’t want my on-call associate to have to try to sort out what I wanted while the family waits at the pharmacy. Another case is the critical MRI at the end of the day when I’m playing phone tag with a family.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Technology is re-shaping physical retail, from Tiffany and Nike to retail pharmacy. You know about CVS buying Aetna late last year, bringing together the pharmacy-cum-healthcare services operation with a health insurance plan. The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Then there is MedMinder , an automated dispensing box that can be preloaded by the pharmacy. category tags: medication management. They include PillPack (recently acquired by Amazon) which delivers the packaged medication doses and has an accompanying app to track information about them.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 30, 2018

"It's hard to get your medicine if your pharmacy keeps changing because you have to keep going to different shelters, and sometimes your shelter is in a new city and you don't have a car, or a cell phone, or a credit card, or a bank account, or you can't read or speak English," he explained. Who's left out?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Professional services available on Independa include Dentulu (online dental consultation), Capital Rx (discount pharmacy platform), Coverdell (dental insurance benefits), WebMD (medical grade educational videos) and Sprio100 (fitness programs for seniors), among others. Learn more. ITRI PoseFit. Learn more at Withings.

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Sometimes, however, he encounters hurdles in prescribing the pen, as insurance companies at times have balked at its higher price tag. “I Pezalla, Aetna’s Vice President and National Medical Director for Pharmacy Policy and Strategy, said insurance providers were reluctant to cover pens in the past because of their higher cost.

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Pharmaceuticals Medicare 58

Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 10, 2018

To be able to pull data from participating hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, and personal health apps. Tagging features for encounters (categorizes like visits). To contain the right information: up-to-date medications, allergies, problems, plans, and social history with the ability to reconcile with a trusted licensed clinician.

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HIStalk Interviews

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The potential benefit in labor savings and medication tray dispensing accuracy is obvious, but how would a hospital pharmacy use your system to manage a drug recall or manufacturer shortage? We’re not, as one director of pharmacy called us years ago, two nerds in a metal box any more. Something is recalled.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

By the end of her virtual visit, the physician had not only reviewed her medical history and prescribed medications, but had also called Soderberg’s pharmacy to find the least expensive drug option. “I was very sick and had a hard time walking, and I only had to make one trip — to the pharmacy.”

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