Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The devices turned out to be extremely useful – from taking pictures to getting directions to texting with relatives to use of social media sites to depositing a check and verifying a bank balance, tracking steps and changes in health status and on and on. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 7, 2024

Or believing that a direct to consumer approach was affordable or scalable – before the broad adoption of social-media based marketing or the introduction of Conversational AI. category tags: seniors and aging policy , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones Or conducting focus groups, even less prevalent today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

The categories span Caregiving, FemTech, Health, Mobility, Savings & Planning, and Social Connections. Then there is the AI laundry list of anxieties that keeps the media busy. See social media. People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you.

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Leadership Nursing 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2023

category tags: social media , computers, broadband, and social networking , AI and machine learning In the future will we be overwhelmed with choices of AI interactions – not unlike meeting and calendar tools that are driven by – wait for it – people who make these choices to their own advantage?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 20, 2024

And that’s before you have logged into a site that could simply be a news media or site or Gmail that just wants to display insulting and absurd ads now that you have been ‘authenticated’. The absurdity of two-factor authentication within a single device, long complex passwords , five years of remembered password history to prevent re-use.

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Patient Experience 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you. These virtual companions can also engage seniors in social interactions, reducing feelings of loneliness and isolation. category tags: Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , senior living

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Telemedicine Leadership Mental health Medicare 69

Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

Another key driving force propelling the adoption of the new weight loss meds has been social media, as this announcement from the TODAY show recently pointed out. In the words of its press release , Mucinex Sickwear resulted from social commerce meeting over-the-counter medicine.

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Telemedicine Digital Health Mental health Telehealth 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

One expert offered his gloomy advice, carried beyond Florida via multiple TV networks : "One doctor emphasizes that there is no substitute for social distancing and hygiene. category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media. Now, arriving at 70, they should be vigilant, cautious, anxious.

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Nursing Public Health 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

Past age 75 single women are likely to rely on Social Security for income, not enough to afford assisted living, now north of $48K per year. Despite years of media rage about conditions in nursing homes (see 2018, above), nothing is really done about those that provide poor care. Why are people in nursing homes?

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Nursing 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 12, 2022

Unless that roaming feature is now using Verizon’s network (their 3G shutdown is supposedly not until December, 2022), nothing worthy of media attention actually happened, despite warning. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. You may wonder, what happened? July 1 came and went.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Did you know that ‘social isolation’ has become a named baby boomer health condition spiking Medicare costs by an additional $134 per enrollee – tucked into the list that includes arthritis (+$117 of cost) and diabetes (+$270), source AARP? So aside from the fact that social isolation is, as of 2016, a billable diagnosis (who knew?),

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

One user-friendly solution co-designed by nurses included multilingual patient education videos on social media. Region Tag: Europe/UK Custom Tags: COVID-19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines Featured Decision Content:

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Nursing Mental health Interoperability Telemedicine 167

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

By HIMSS Media | December 01, 2021. Surgeon General declared social isolation to be a "global epidemic." Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters. Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities.

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Patient Experience Telehealth Connected Health Telemedicine 106

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Consider a few issues for starters: chronic health conditions including mobility limitations, stairs, snow/ice, driving, dangerous hills for walking, cognitive issues, and social isolation. It’s one thing to read the appropriate coverage in the media about the horrendous mismanagement of Covid-19 patients in New York City nursing homes.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 150

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

"Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health." Region Tag: Global Edition. " But what if there's no broadband? More than 14 million urban homes and nearly 4 million rural homes have no broadband.

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Telehealth eHealth Primary Care Connected Health 183

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Consider a few issues for starters: chronic health conditions including mobility limitations, stairs, snow/ice, driving, dangerous hills for walking, cognitive issues, and social isolation. It’s one thing to read the appropriate coverage in the media about the horrendous mismanagement of Covid-19 patients in New York City nursing homes.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 125

Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This exercise of writing and recording gives us material to share in various venues and media. We listened informally for a week – to family, friends, colleagues, social media, popular media, wherever we went – for questions people asked about COVID-19 testing. Tagging is further search refinement.

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Nursing 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

And much more will be different for an older population – the real seniors, aged 75+, perhaps previously unnoticed by media. Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. Read more. . .

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Remote care Digital Health Telehealth 101

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.

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Telehealth Health science Primary Care Healthcare IT 157

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 30, 2019

While Internet and social media technology use has plateaued over all age ranges, Facebook still has captured only 41% of the 65+. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors. In 2018, technology utilization grew – so did frustrations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

category tags: IoT and home monitoring , PERS , social media , cell phones, smartphones. Especially about the implications of an entirely ad-driven business model, free to the ‘user’ aka the product.

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Telehealth 108

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Metrics related to social determinants of health and reducing health disparities can be incorporated and refined within these models. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Accountable Care Medicare Telehealth Public Health 166

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 9, 2018

But not raising concern about the business and social value of Twitter. category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking. We could start with Twitter, which is deleting millions of bots, trolls, and other fake accounts (often with automated software generating hundreds of tweets per day).

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Telehealth 69

Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Perhaps now more than ever, social media is pervasive in the way people today are communicating and finding information, including about mental health. In addition to social media, appearing in local web searches for mental health services (or any services that you provide) is key to successful marketing during the current pandemic.

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Mental health EMR Telehealth Public Health 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Consider voice-enabled smart plugs, thermostats, audio books, traffic directions, weather, and news updates – and answers to questions that might matter about health, social connection, and personal safety. category tags: Home Care , Mobile PERS , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , social media.

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Connected Care Remote care 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

March marked the annual American Society on Aging conference in San Francisco – where Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are obtained for multiple social and service roles that serve older adults. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , aging in place. The tech ideas of March -- change incremental or disruptive. Read more. .

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Public Health 59

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

We at HIMSS Media in November will delve into the ways AI and machine learning have already taken root in healthcare, we’ll interview experts about what’s coming next and examine the promise and threats of AI. Collection. Healthcare innovation solving problems. by September 05, 2018.

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Health IT Patient Experience Telehealth Healthcare Innovation 92

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Or too much media reporting about scams, breaches, and identity theft – most of which it is difficult to detect and nearly impossible to prevent? And no, it’s not to read dumb text messages heads down and fall into a manhole – nor is it about the social media company that cannot be named. Does that fear imply lack of training?

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Telehealth 98

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Honor ( JoinHonor.com ) is also the product of enthusiastic investment – founded by Seth Sternberg, previously seller of social media firm, Meebo, to Google for $100 million in 2012 (and killed a year later in favor of now-dead Google+ ). category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care.

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Medicare 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2019

category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking. We can Clear Cookies on our web browsers, but how many of us do? Having to re-enter information is an inconvenience. We like the fact that browsers remember who we are and our last interaction.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2020

As for social media , things really got going with AOL Instant Messenger in 1993 -- then all was pretty quiet until 2003-4, when LinkedIn, MySpace, Skype, and Facebook all arrived. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , computers, internet and social networking , smartphones, cell phones.

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Health Technology Nursing Telehealth Remote care 75

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

BMC opted to go with integrated health and social care solutions from vendor Activate Care. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Staff also needed to make seizure action plans more accessible to the patient’s caregiver community.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If your phone is enabling what you need (text, pics, email, browser, fitness tracking, social media) and you have no external motivation (like that family photo share ) you won’t upgrade unless your phone is broken or you are a tech glutton for punishment. category tags: smartphones, cell phones.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 9, 2018

That is an interesting search – pages and pages of Start Me Up pilots in tech, programs, initiatives large and small, all linked, no doubt to corresponding media spend and press releases. According to the report Connected Living for Social Aging , which was published 7 years ago this month, the future was predicted. Learn more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2019

lead the subject of social recruiting. . category tags: social media , computers, internet and social networking. Microsoft paid $26 billion for LinkedIn and then bought GitHub for $7.5 billion -- have they cornered the market on developer recruiting and software innovation ? Some skepticism is in order.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 28, 2021

This is mainly due to the age and demographic of users, plus other social determinants of health like income, access to broadband, levels of education and current behaviours. A lot of stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem strongly believe big tech should be defending the data, helping make data more secure, tagged and categorised.

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EHR 90

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Or too much media reporting about scams, breaches, and identity theft – most of which is difficult to detect and nearly impossible to prevent? And no, it’s not to read dumb text messages heads down and fall into a manhole – nor is it about the social media company that cannot be named. Does that fear imply lack of training?

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Telehealth 72