Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 16, 2023

Maybe now that the foot dragging of call center upgrades is well publicized, the laggards will move more quickly. Hopefully. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , Technology - AARP , AgeTech The landline-to-cell switchover seems like a good idea – almost, but not quite.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2022

category tags: wearables, smart watch , smartphones , computers, broadband, and social networking. Further, it tells the number of people in geographic locations, education and marital status, employment status (173 million), the percent aged 65+ (more than 55 million as of the date of the most recent survey).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2023

But constraints faced now and in coming years are beginning to emerge from public and political debates about privacy, ethics and proposed regulation. category tags: AI and machine learning , chatbots , Conversational and generative AI Some say that we are in The Golden Age of AI.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Housing alternatives (like cohousing or multi-generational housing) would be well publicized and on the way to broad adoption. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living By now you would think closing these gaps in care would be likely. You would be wrong. In what year?

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Telehealth 62

Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. The photo underneath the star was printed from a local newspaper article showing public health and LTC staff wearing hazmat-type suits.

Public Health 279

Public Health Nursing Mental health Health Policy 279

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , aging in place , seniors and aging policy The federal “Money Follows the Person” was introduced in 2005 to enable seniors to avoid them and receive Medicaid-paid services. Reauthorized repeatedly, it is now authorized through 2027. Why have nursing homes become so publicly scorned?

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Nursing Medicare 117

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to PHI analysis, the job pays so poorly today that 40% live in low-income households and 43% rely on public assistance. category tags: robotics , Family caregivers , Home Care. The demand for home care workers will grow by at least by 37%. Put all that together and at least the concept of helpful robots sounds pretty good.

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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. "If you can tag a nail clipper with RFID technology," as many big-box stores do, "you can do it for medication," he said.

eCare 159

eCare Telemedicine Healthcare IT Telehealth 159

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million category tags: AgeTech , senior living , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , seniors and aging policy Publicly available up-to-date stats about the older adult population is weak or non-existent. The most recent version of ChatGPT admits it cannot state the current population in the US that is aged 75+. Nor can Google. million 27.2

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Nursing 69

Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Publication-grade studies and transparency is a versatile value proposition, and seems to be resonating with both providers (Ex. Publication-grade studies and transparency is a versatile value proposition, and seems to be resonating with both providers (Ex. point-of-care support, quality improvement programs) and life science orgs (Ex.

Life Science 64

Life Science Digital Health Health Data 64

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Watch for the next installment of this very public soap opera. category tags: Scams -- all types , social media , computers, broadband, and social networking , AgeTech Guess they weren’t big fans of AI for Good. Microsoft, which committed as much as $10 billion over time for OpenAI, might think AI for Profit might be a better strategy.

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Medicare 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

From the findings; One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. New report published - Future of AI and Older Adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

Note the concerted efforts to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes , reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. But constraints faced now and in coming years are beginning to emerge from public and political debates about privacy, ethics and proposed regulation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. Let’s break down telehealth into three categories, and consider as an example public libraries that decide to offer telehealth in its various branches. Region Tag: Global Edition. Strategically speaking. Follow him on Twitter @cjsettles101.

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Telehealth Public Health Mental health eHealth 167

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

It is perpetuated in associations , venture capital and public policy lobbying. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , senior living , Family caregivers , AgeTech The care continuum that serves older adults is an ignored reality. The stove-piping of care-related services is a myth.

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Nursing Health Information Mental health 118

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.” million women in the U.S.

Public Health 156

Public Health Health Policy 156

Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

authorized for wide distribution – like an emergency-data-set, or for dietary use-cases "L", because the content is not medical, or has been de-identified "U", because the content is not specific to an individual and is public This is right out of the definition of the vocabulary values 2.16.840.1.113883.5.25 for "_confidentiality".

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FHIR HIE Health Information Health Data 65

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

There is quite a bit of chatter in long-term care publications about the need for more technology use, and providers are asked to offer best examples of tech use to win an award (separate categories for senior living, home care, and skilled nursing) at the upcoming Leading Age event in October.

Nursing 131

Nursing Telehealth 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS. Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home.

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Medicare Telehealth Public Health 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 20, 2020

PR agencies are specifically focused on the client company’s message – and facilitate awareness and associated publicity about that message, ideally helping to create interest and even leads. Sometimes their jobs are about overcoming the impact of negative messages – bad reviews or public critiques of products. OPINION OFF. .

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Telehealth 69

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

Tagging all of the data in an EHR is non trivial, and there is not good advice on how to do that well, say nothing of how to do it without fail. Advanced is using security sensitivity tagging, and is what is most of the time referred to as "Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P)". Why do I express this?

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HIPAA Interoperability FHIR Health Information 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

Hysterical publicity about nursing homes can surprise even the governor of New York. and beyond, even inspiring Columbia public health researchers to categorize its various manifestations – “hostile, neglectful and benevolent.” category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media.

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Nursing Public Health 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2024

Read more. category tags: smartphones, cellphones , vehicle/transportation technology-services , AgeTech Should improvements be focused on older adults – or is this really a Design for Everyone opportunity? Are tech developers so insulated from users, they don’t see the deterioration of experience as it happened?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2022

Is your offering mentioned in publications about older adults ? . category tags: AgeTech , smartphones , Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Do you know what software they own, including platforms that drive sales of your partners’ offerings? Again it helps vendors to target markets more effectively.

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Health Information Telehealth 131

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

When the public health emergency ends , the government waiver that opened doors for providing hospital care at home may expire, causing worries among hospital at home advocates that much of the progress made during the pandemic may end due to the lack of sufficient reimbursement. Region Tag: Global Edition.

Life Science 130

Life Science FHIR Telehealth Health Information 130

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Many stakeholders have noted the importance of expanding access to broadband as a fundamental necessity – an endeavor that may run up, as Federal Office of Rural Health Senior Adviser for Telehealth William England put it , a "hundreds-of-billion-dollar" price tag. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

Telehealth 156

Telehealth Health science Primary Care Healthcare IT 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It is well-publicized that it is getting tougher to attract workers to jobs that pay $10/hour caring for seniors who may multiple health and mobility limitations – compared to $11.62/hour category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care. Finding and retaining workers will get tougher. hour to start at Walmart. And if so, when?

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Nursing Medicare 133

Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

When we’re very young, social and public policies have everything to do with setting us up for successful, healthy adulthood — in mind (in terms of cognitive development and educational outcomes), body (in terms of physical health outcomes), spirit (as social and emotional outcomes), and pocketbook (based on our material outcomes).

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Mental health Health Data Public Health 170

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the next blog post in a series prior to publication of the report, the Future of Wearables and Older Adults 2021]. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. Will consumers tolerate the default tracking of their behaviors as a trade-off for health, fitness, and financial benefits? More when there’s more.

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Connected Health Health Data 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Petnow app can solve the problems of the existing pet identification methods such as microchips, tags, and collars that are prone to damage or loss, and it is beginning to enter the U.S. They work anywhere people need them, whether they are at home, at work, or in a loud public setting. Jesse Joonho Lim, the founder of Petnow Inc.

Digital Health 140

Digital Health Pain management 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 17, 2019

Perhaps wireless broadband in public places like restaurants has become so good, that bringing your own device is enough for many who do not have broadband at home. category tags: smartphones , computers, internet and social networking. At a nationwide average of $60/month, 44% of lower income responders do not have home broadband.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

All text is from public media. AARP Public Policy research in 2013 revealed a future crisis in availability of people to care for an aging population (“You take care of Mom, but who will take care of you?”). category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 28, 2020

Google search ranking has generated some very-public battles, as with Yelp and led to numerous lawsuits -- including one about tracking you when you are searching in ‘private’ mode, another oxymoron. category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking. And that’s just Twitter.

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Nursing 138

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system. Region Tag: Global Edition. Work is not a physical place you go to anymore, so having leaders trained to handle the remote staff will be essential. Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Where IT leaders should focus their energies in 2022 Featured Decision Content:

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Leadership EHR Telemedicine Telehealth 186

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Community broadband is often great for curing capacity barriers – networks owned by cities and counties, telephone and electrical co-ops, wireless ISP (WISPs), other local ISPs and public-private partnerships. Currently 17 states enact some probation on public-owned broadband. Region Tag: Global Edition. Ask around!

Telehealth 183

Telehealth eHealth Primary Care Connected Health 183

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health.

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Private practice General practice Public Health Telemedicine 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

With all the publicity about terrible conditions in the nation’s nursing homes, states and the federal government are galvanized into some self-protective and resident-protective actions. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living. Closing the gate, now that the chickens have left. Most important?

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Nursing 110