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Self-driving cars - not yet for older adults or anyone else

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Traffic deaths are a 'public health crisis that cannot be tolerated.' He does not see why his livelihood, which is already in jeopardy from Uber , should be further jeopardized because Googled upstarts say they can make it so. And of course, ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft reduce traffic in big cities, right?

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Recapping the most-read blog posts from 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Still not clear why an Uber driving itself is better than a Lyft or Uber with a driver – unless it is the well-publicized incidents about Uber drivers. What technology matters for older adults?

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How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there.

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Gen Z and Millennials: What They Want from Healthcare

MeMD

They’re the reason DoorDash, Uber and on-demand everything came to be. The pandemic pushed digital health to new heights – and there’s no going back. The rise in mental health conditions alongside COVID-19 is being billed a dual pandemic. Likewise, mental health among Millennials is declining steadily.

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Saving Money, Saving Lives: Replacing Emergency Air Transport with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When a medical emergency hits – say, a car accident or a heart attack – no one’s first concern should be about the price tag attached to the ambulance or medical air transport. Instead, they call an Uber or ask a family member to come home from work and drive them to the hospital.

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Mobile patient communication and telehealth tool helps transform Indiana Hernia Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The corporate takeover of healthcare and the exodus of physicians from private practice into employed positions, combined with sub-par deployment of electronic health records and patient portals, has resulted in increasing patient and physician dissatisfaction with the current healthcare delivery model, he contended. THE PROBLEM.

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Five technology offerings from HIMSS 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

HIMSS 2019 is where 40,000 health IT enthusiasts engage. Per their own by-the-numbers charts , you see a picture of the scale of it -- more than 40,000 attendees wanted to be in Orlando, braving weather-related travel obstacles, obtain any required continuing education units – and ideally see as much as possible of the 1300 vendor exhibits.

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