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Four factors underpin AI potential in health and home care

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The last-ditch choices will be emergency room visit or long wait for a doctor visit. Aging in place preferences parallel demand for private duty home care and home health. Consider changes that have taken place in recent years that will drive growth in apps for self-care. Consumers are all in on self-diagnosis and care.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Community broadband, meanwhile, refers to are those networks owned by towns, cities and counties, local telephone and electrical co-ops, wireless internet service providers (or WISPs) and other local ISPs, and public-private partnerships often initiated by municipalities or counties. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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New report: AI and the Future of Care Work 2023

Aging in Place Technology Watch

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit. BLS projects 22% job growth outpacing all other occupations.

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ChatGPT – Consider asking a question in a post-Google-Ad world

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider these answers and wonder how we got here – that the first ad is from Lilly, with a vested interest in the definition as well as the searcher contacting a doctor. Private pay: This means paying for the nursing home out of pocket, using personal savings, investments, or income from a pension or Social Security.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured. The ER doctor sends an email note via telehealth to the parents' home and later does a Zoom session to show huge X-ray files. Region Tag: Global Edition. and 10 p.m., Ask around!

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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Whilst the system used by NHS General Practice is fairly well embedded, there is nothing similar for private practices or for any hospitals or dental services. The doctor will see you now. It seems to have become part of everyone’s lives including the way in which we interact with doctors and other healthcare professionals.

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Five worrisome aging and health blog posts from August 2023

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Even your dentist and doctor prefer text. So many factors crushed nursing homes -- Covid and Private Equity nursing home ownership were big players, followed by government strategy to undermine them. Read more. category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , smartphones, cellphones , social isolation So why keep it?

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