Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2022

For both assisted living and nursing homes, checking in on residents at night while they are sleeping may still be the standard of laborious practice. category tags: AgeTech , senior living. Precede long hall check-in walks with remote monitoring and check-in.

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Nursing 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Instead, AI tech for check-in and averting problems will be part of the standard of care. category tags: Home Care , home health care , senior living , AI and machine learning The days of waiting until morning to communicate with a healthcare provider will be remembered as archaic.

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Nursing EMR Healthcare Innovation Telehealth 138

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

To this end, the task force has gathered expert stakeholders across the industry with the purpose of maturing granular data segmentation standards and implementation guidance in order to sponsor patient-driven sharing of health information with informed consent and advance interoperability in a more equitable manner. Why do I express this?

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HIPAA Interoperability FHIR Health Information 70

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers. The advantages of RFID extend far beyond error reduction and time savings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 29, 2023

Sounded good then, presumably implementing a standard that stopped 78 million spam calls. Do you believe that there were 54.6 category tags: smartphones, cellphones , seniors and aging policy , Seniors So let’s add ‘em up: 9 cellphone spam calls, 3-5 Medicare Advantage calls, one or two Camp Lejeune settlement spam calls.

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Medicare 129

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Connected Health By Kat Jercich | February 24, 2022 News Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program The result? Greatly improved patient outcomes and big cost savings. Here's where providers are finding success with these new modalities.

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Connected Health Telehealth Telemedicine Remote care 121

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

For example, consider the definition differences between accessible design (serving people with disabilities), universal design (products that are easy to use), and usable design (based on agreed-to or promoted standard of usability ). Boost interest in inclusive design (versus ‘accessible’) concepts.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SkyPoint AI intends to elevate the standard of care provided in senior living facilities, enhance operational efficiency, and improve staff satisfaction by eliminating mundane repetitive tasks. category tags: AI and machine learning , Scams -- all types , senior living , AgeTech Learn more.

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Mental health 108

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. With this additional funding, 9amHealth will be able to expand access to the highest standard of medical care to more Americans while curbing medication spending.”

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Patient Experience Health IT Healthcare IT 87

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

However, the pace of technology change is accelerating, and today’s environment is ever more fragmented by multiple and competing technology vendors, each with an incentive to market proprietary technology, despite standards efforts underway. category tags: AgeTech , smartphones , robotics , AI and machine learning , VR/AR technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care , AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , AgeTech Using the predictions about worker shortages – problematic now and worsening as the boomers age into their 80s – the report will seek a cross section of stakeholders in and around home care.

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Nursing 130

Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I covered how to include Test data in Production Environments using the HTEST tag. That article explained how data that is not real patient data, that is to say 'test' data, would be tagged with HTEST. Data should be tagged with the PurposeOfUse under which it was collected, and test data is collected for the PurposeOfUse of.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Recommendations based on the history of a user’s conversations will be accepted and standard. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , computers, broadband, and social networking , senior living. New features will be offered based on utilization of existing capabilities (music, recipes, trips, books, advice).

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 19, 2023

this would require tagging each data resource. I am confident that we have healthcare standards infrastructure to support this new use-case. can be used in a Consent, where allowed, to allow an individual patient to express rules specific to that purposeOfUse.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There were dedicated email devices (Presto, Celery, Mailbug ) – clearly the standard personal computer was not too friendly. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking What changed in technology adoption of older adults? Ranting about technology adoption 15 years ago , it obviously was a different world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. Platforms matter—they enable data standardization which in turn fuels growth. For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. Note its 2015 $72.5

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Nursing 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

The lack of standardization of electronic records has been a major impediment to AI access and accuracy of retrieved information or assessment. From new report published: The Future of AI and Older Adults category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , AgeTech

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EHR 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Unlike nursing homes, no standards-setting organizations specify minimum care requirements in the home. Updated care portals for families are part of the standard of care. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. But pay is poor and home care quality and oversight are variable.

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Nursing 128

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Despite standards initiatives like Matter in 2022 , or ONC Interoperability efforts, many of today’s gadgets still don’t communicate – especially with each other’s proprietary systems or data sets (like Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Standards enable users and integrators to cross tech boundaries.

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Interoperability Mobile Health EHR 69

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2020

A developing workgroup of multidisciplinary experts is building on work started by the DS4P/C2S standards in order to produce recommendations for future standards development and a consensus-driven implementation guide to facilitate industry-wide adoption.

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FHIR Interoperability Health Information Health Data 54

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

The terms Accessibility and Usability have updated standards, presumably for the purpose of pushing vendors and web content providers along in meeting needs and making devices and user interfaces easier to understand. AARP offers tips and tricks for both iPhone and Android phones. Why on earth?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Rather than force a patient to carry their records from care location to location, the standardization and exchange of electronic medical records will see a boost from the use of AI software tools. See today-future comparison chart below. The care continuum will become a data-driven reality for just-right care.

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Nursing Medicare 69

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

With EMRs offering healthcare-standard APIs (such as FHIR) for integration, patients need to select devices with integration capabilities using healthcare standards. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients Featured Decision Content:

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EMR FHIR Telehealth Leadership 148

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

J abra Enhance Plus sets a new standard for bringing together the convenience of true wireless earbuds with advanced hearing technology to alleviate unaddressed hearing needs. category tags: CES 2023 , hearables/hearing technology , digital health , assistive technologies , smartphones; wearables , pet technology. Learn more.

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Digital Health Pain management 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And the rest may have standard TV with attached streaming devices. category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Uniper Care provides an end-to-end solution that transforms a TV or mobile device into an interactive connectivity hub." Learn more at UniperCare. . See recent reports: .

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Pharmaceuticals Telehealth HIPAA 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

This represents a game-changing evolution to the standard of care for all forms and stages of home health treatment - especially patients with chronic or long-term health conditions. category tags: vision and vision technology , hearables/hearing technology , smart home , digital health Learn more.

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Digital Health 139

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. The Act defines “consumers” as people residing in Washington state as well as people whose health data is collected in Washington and those identified through quote, “unique identifiers.”

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HIPAA Health Data Health Information Digital Health 156

Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

If the use-case does not need to extend outside of the EHR, then there is no need for a standardized solution. But would require that there be some yet-to-be-defined code to indicate that Break-Glass may be useful The FHIR Bundle that is returned might have a Bundle.meta.security tag that indicates that some data were redacted ( REDACTED ).

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Interoperable Consent Standards My main focus is on enabling Health Information to flow given proper Security and Privacy. Thus one of my focuses is on the interop standards that enable Privacy Consent to function properly. They mostly look for a reasonable subset of full capability of these standards that minimally meet their needs.

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Interoperability FHIR EHR Health Information 92

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

mcare’s in-home remote dispensing and integrated care monitoring will drive a new way to measure adherence and set a new standard for care coordination that is simple, safe and easy to use. ?mcare category tags: healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , home health care. With three issued patents and more pending, ?mcare’s

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Nursing 124

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Meditech will use Google Health's technologies to build a longitudinal health data output that combines data from multiple sources using standard FHIR format. Region Tag: Global Edition. Google Health will embed its search and summarization capabilities within the Meditech Expanse EHR.

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Life Science FHIR Telehealth Health Information 132

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Apple in 2022 inched towards the Matter interoperability standard for smart homes, and Google did so as well , which may help ease installation and follow-on support of multiple device types in the future. category tags: smartphones , smart home , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , fall prevention, fall detection.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Because its use will persist in some format, industry leaders want to standardize appropriate workflow, video platforms, and communication with patients. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking.

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Remote care Telehealth Medicare Primary Care 130

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged. Test and validate to ensure output meets quality standards, and records can be pulled and exchanged at scale. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Patient privacy. Data quality.

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Life Science Health Information EHR Leadership 84

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

But what is the standard of care and how is it measured? category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living. Identifying which nursing homes had Covid-19 cases. Add to that, state-by-state, the National Guard is being brought in to disinfect nursing homes or assist with Covid-19 testing.

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Nursing 110

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

As the market evolves, early cancer detection pathways will become mainstream, and synergistic CDx (companion diagnostic) tests will foster this new standard in cancer care. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021 Featured Decision Content:

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Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals 212

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. The Cube was designed specifically to meet ADA Standards for Accessible Design and international equivalents.

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Health IT HIPAA Telehealth Nursing 97