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Insights from 2023 Market Overview Technology for Aging

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. . Fifty-three million Americans are providing care to someone with health or functional needs – in short, they are family caregivers. Smart displays and interfaces will be ubiquitous.

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The hype of aging in place -- so bad for so many

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Home care agencies are contacted, transportation providers of rides to-from appointments surface, food is delivered, and other services are brought in. category tags: aging in place , AgeTech , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection What could go wrong? They are hopeful about the new technology designed to help them.

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Five New Technology Offerings for Older Adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

It was filled with tech from wall-to-wall and bus ride to bus ride. A competition winner here, a spotlight on hearing there , health tech here – here a robot , there a drone – everywhere a bus ride and 170,000 people, all apparently young and agile. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health.

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The 'giant sucking sound' of digital health consolidation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers? Silver Cloud is a behavioural health company that has developed digital care models equivalent to face-to-face encounters.

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Has telehealth hit the high watermark?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Paddy Padmanabhan In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems saw dramatic spikes in virtual visits and telehealth adoption in the patient population. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country in the first few months of the pandemic.

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Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. Learn more at Coral Health. Learn more at Groove Health.

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What’s next with Voice tech and seniors?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Fetching a ride, answering a healthcare question, that's a nicer-to-have, especially when visiting the doctor is off-limits. That chasm highlighted the isolation in senior care facilities and in seniors' homes, widening the distance from families -- and highlighting lack of connection with health providers. Music and recipes, how nice.