Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

It's news -- 600 nursing homes closed so what’s the strategy to fix? Pre-Covid, you’ve seen residents of nursing homes share meals with other residents, receive care provided by long-time aides, benefit from visits from community volunteers, or attend religion services provided on Fridays or Sundays. Rant on.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI — CharmHealth , a leader in healthcare technology solutions for providers, today announced the kickoff of its 2024 Innovation Challenge. The fourth annual competition is designed to surface new ideas that will fundamentally improve healthcare and its underlying systems and processes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

You read it every day in the popular press – the bad news about the 65+ and their future care burden and the good news about the 65+ and their wealth (22% of US spending in 2022). Home care executives confirm that they are turning away 25% of prospective clients due to lack of workers to provide care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

Tagging drugs with RFID, he argued, would address problems with medication flow around the hospital and allow providers to tie distributions directly to a patient's electronic health record. Avera set up help desks and channels for support so that patients and providers had a place to turn if they needed help.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2023

Wondering if there's any news about AI? MIT Technology Review packs all the AI news that’s fit to pack into an up-to-the-minute digest. The New York Times attempts similar for the uninitiated. Until 2022, there was no specific CPT code for AI-enabled services – though CPT codes in healthcare drive all payments to providers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To Why should this be an imperative?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

New progress for dementia care. Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. Learn more at BoundaryCare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The core of coordination rests on communication, which is notoriously poor for older adults seeing multiple healthcare providers. who received ‘seemingly conflicting guidance from different providers.’ See this 2022 study about care coordination in healthcare for older adults – 42% perceived poor care coordination, including 14.8%

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Digital Health Global

JULY 11, 2023

This year’s Innovation Challenge invites proposals designed to address the biggest issues faced by healthcare providers, patients and organizations. Our Innovation Challenge provides an ideal platform to showcase and exchange ideas and solutions that will reshape the healthcare landscape.” 2-3, 2023. CEO of CharmHealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

"Essentially overnight, as part of efforts to reduce the transmission of COVID-19, two of the major previous barriers to telehealth use – poor financial reimbursement and low provider willingness – were eliminated, thus massively speeding up adoption," wrote the researchers. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It's clear the future of reimbursement will at minimum include a heaping portion of providers being paid for value as opposed to volume. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News and Studies. Please include any relevant links and let us know if news is under embargo.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

But it’s not too early, as the new report, The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 , points out through interviews with those deploying conversational AI and machine learning technology today. And from the other May blog posts: Wondering if there's any news about AI? Stanford provides the State of AI in 14 Charts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

" Abortion providers told Healthcare IT News that they had already shifted much of their practice over to telehealth in the interest of patient safety. For qualifying patients, McNicholas said, providers at the Illinois clinic are "operationalizing an overnight mailing system so folks can have their pill the next day."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. This 18-part feature story series offers a deep dive into how CIOs and other healthcare leaders can best optimize technologies to produce results specific to a provider organization’s clinical and business needs. – Susan Morse, Senior Editor, Healthcare Finance News.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Meanwhile, AARP’s new trends report indicates that smartphone adoption has jumped, potentially over 80% for those aged 70+, no surprise given the 3G sunsetting and the need to replace old cellphones. Here are 10 new offerings of interest, all information from the company’s website or news articles: Aeo, helper robot. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 13, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

Four experts in analytics offer key suggestions for starting with the technology at a provider organization. Implementation best practices: Launching clinical decision support. by Bill Siwicki March 07, 2019. Three experts offer comprehensive advice and tips for healthcare CIOs starting a clinical decision support journey.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Ironically, it was not the big tech news of the month – eclipsed by an OpenAI introduction that had appeared in November, but was suddenly noticed – first in December in the media. It also provides charming but incorrect answers to many questions and has been ‘banned’ temporarily from some sites. 10 new offerings from CES 2023.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Innovators in 2020 helped mitigate social isolation, enable in-home strength training for seniors, provided the tech mechanics (regardless of infrastructure) to connect older adults to families? All that and more make up the new entrants in the 2021 Market Overview of Technology for Aging, to be published by the week of January 11.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

FallCall Solutions provides a central monitoring center for its Apple Watch subscribers. And most PERS watch subscriptions (see Medical Guardian and UnaliWear ) also provide access to a 24-hour response center. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Mobile PERS , PERS. Best Buy began offering this service in March, 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

Learn more at: Senior Living News. Holiday Retirement, the largest independent senior living provider in the U.S., announced today that it has provided telehealth access and services to the residents of Holiday’s 261 senior living communities. Holiday Retirement and MeMD. Learn more at MSN. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

After assessing the needs of BMC’s patient population and referring providers in the community, staff members realized there were a few problems they needed to look for in their referring providers. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

It's in many ways a good-news/bad-news story. In January, 2019, the coordinating body for Health IT (ONC) released interoperability advice, connecting people to their care , that requires representing the relationship between a patient and another person (provider, caregiver, or family member). Seniors are working longer.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

The US News site was not an ad itself, but the article was filled with ads for devices. Yet the home care industry can attract those who care about older adults and provide them with improved working conditions that underpin their tasks with technology that improves efficiency and care effectiveness. Ditto for ConsumerAffairs.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Seattle-based Providence Health saw 70,000 patient logins and over one million messages come in through the chatbot in the first month of the outbreak or 10-15 times more than pre-pandemic levels. Many healthcare providers are, therefore, motivated to bring patients back into the hospital or clinic. Featured Decision Content:

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

” Financial toxicity has been identified as an unwanted side effect in American healthcare, first emerging from the cancer treatment providers at Sloan-Kettering Institute, one of the organizations involved in this study. The ASCO story is such good news.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Now health organizations and providers are moving forward with voice-enabled interfaces to everything from hospital rooms, appointment scheduling, doctors note-taking, prescription requests, and even discharge instructions. Voice first technology – it’s everywhere and in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2018

Powered by advanced AI and machine-learning to bring new insights into a senior user’s condition, daily activities and behavioral trends." The AskMarvee capability includes Morning Beacon, Social Visit, Call Me, and Family News. Voice First. Learn more at UnaliWear. Voice First. Learn more at LifePod. Learn more at Onist. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

The good news – this week’s Health Care Technology supplement transcended the limits of doctors and hospitals – and dabbled in the dilemmas of elder care – included technology to assist those with dementia and mitigate loneliness. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , dementia care , social isolation.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 11, 2023

–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI — CharmHealth , a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, today announced that Binah.ai –(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI — CharmHealth , a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, today announced that Binah.ai Additional speakers include David Fajgenbaum , M.D.,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

News organizations rarely discussed tech adoption among seniors. Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Not from any news article other than PERS Insider , a newly created newsletter for those who track the medical alert industry. Recent press quotes: New York Times: In Isolating Times, Can Robo-Pets Provide Comfort, September, 2020. Senior Housing News: Senior Living Tech Spending Skyrockets, September, 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

First off, many residents have died, and news media organizations are now obsessed with counting and re-counting, totaling up the numbers (more than 10,000 as of today) and then counting some more. There are numerous reasons why nursing homes help families who otherwise could not provide adequate care. So many of the 1.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

So residents who will 'shelter in place' stock up on supplies and watch the 24-hour source of all fear – cable news, looking for guidance from Jim Cantore , that icon among storm trackers. The ads are also local – so realtors, stores, and service providers all can pay to reach those within their locale. Back at the hurricane watch.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2022

Many think this is an easy problem to solve, just slap a security tag on the data, but it is a much bigger systems-engineering problem. The clinical expectation is that the primary care physician can break the news more carefully or provide a more complete explanation. For example, a lab result that clearly indicates cancer.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2020

The in-real-life daily TV news actually over-dramatizes COVID-19 more. Demonstrate how organizations can engage providers using FHIR and FHIR-based apps. Recognize how information exchange impacts care delivery beyond the VHA, inclusive of all providers using FHIR.

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