Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pajama-like clothing is the only way to consume the content vastness of this entirely online Consumer Electronics Show with 500 exhibits, 70,000 registered attendees, and 3 full days of sessions, many pre-recorded, some live. Too many press releases and some odd stuff (a rollable Smart phone ?) Learn more at Absolute Audio. MightyHealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Voice technology in 2022 – living up to hope and hype? Fairly new at the time, a few senior living organizations embraced it for its home automation potential, possibility of concierge services -- turn on the lights! category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

The winning team will go on to the AARP Innovation Pitch Event in Washington, DC, in October of 2018. Virtual caregiving, providing peace of mind to caregivers and improving the quality of life of their loved ones with voice-initiated, intelligent and connected services to support the elderly as they age-in-place. Ohmni Robot.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

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. What could go wrong with this picture? In such cases, patients have no choice but to make in-person visits to the nearest clinic.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations. The latter is likely to be a genie that will not go back into the bottle , as an interview with CMS’ Seema Verma indicates.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

Thousands of smart speaker devices have been delivered to senior living communities. It is time to imagine how are these efforts going to be disseminated through a fragmented combination of associations, states, senior housing communities, nursing homes, home care agencies, and to families.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Weird and wacky, teeny-tiny, virtual, augmented, robotic, metaverse-y – remote this-and-that. Will AI enablement help senior living achieve just-right staffing at a given time or location? Will these technologies move senior living from a food-and-furniture paradigm to AI-enabled tech service delivery?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Enhancing emergency response as a way to save more lives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. This was all very new to patients, who already had the stress of the pandemic as a constant in their lives, she added. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Consider the slower-growing 8(8% occupied) senior housing industry – where in ten years, 81% of couples will not be able to afford the $60,000 average cost of assisted living (a number that does not reflect higher cost memory care). The report is from NIC – the National Investment Center that provides research to the senior living industry.

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Telehealth 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

Go ahead and search – maybe in 2019, it will start it up again now that the closed community of The Villages is doing a trial (no posted results yet). Virtual becomes a buzzword and MAY be transformative for seniors. The word ‘Virtual’ has been around for decades in the tech industry. Shall we sum those up as winter?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

And so they go on – talking about themselves and assuming that’s fine at your end of the 'dialogue' They have families who become irritated with them; they spend a great deal of time alone. Voice First in Senior Living -- What's Happened and What's Next? Senior Living organizations are eager to try new technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 30, 2019

Their award-winning emotion recognition and behavioral prediction analytics technology utilize cognitive modeling and advanced machine learning algorithms to provide enriched conversational insights for interaction with voice assistants, chatbots, robotic virtual assistants, social healthcare robotics and mobile voice assistants." SurveyLine.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

Go back to 2019, for just a moment. Go past the concerns about whether students can complete work, past the political debate about whether the government should provide Internet access -- there are some interesting nuggets and puzzling findings. etc. -- very little deep thought about why people live there and what change is likely.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Here, Deborah’s concept of “boundaryless retail” will be quite relevant for health/care stakeholders, as the consumer can and will seek health everywhere – at home, on the go at grocery stores and workplaces, in their cars…omnichannel beyond (but including) media platforms.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The black market price tag of stolen protected health information (PHI) can go for $60 a record, compared to roughly $1 for a credit card or social security number. Even just one incident in a private practice can frighten patients into terminating their provider relationship or avoiding virtual care in the future. The answer?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It's been a busy few years for virtual care, to say the least. How do we go beyond synchronous video visits – and how do we ensure equitable access to whatever improvements are made available? And everybody's talking about: What else can you make virtual? So when we talk about virtual care, think hybrid.

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GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

From specialist shortages to long wait times to transportation barriers, many people around the world don’t live near well-equipped hospitals that provide readily available access to care—leaving rural residents to either travel for care or go without the healthcare resources they need. In Alaska , many people live in remote areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Depending on where you live, healthcare is almost synonymous with high expenses. About one in three heart patients with financial hardship from their medical bills had to cut back on food or go without their required medications. There has never been a better time or a greater need for the healthcare industry to go virtual.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

You set these stops for the robot to go to—like by the refrigerator or the couch. The product can be mounted on walls throughout a home, office building, assisted living facility, apartment building, fitness center, hospital or medical office waiting room, or any other location that will benefit from continuous monitoring of occupants.

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