Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

Consider Optum’s acquisition of Amedisys home health business. Would better data -- about staff ratios and training, resident health issues and care requirements, regular sharing of care status with families and management – have made a difference in the care outcome that signaled the end of Emeritus? Note its 2015 $72.5

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JANUARY 10, 2024

2024 got off to an auspicious and promising start for the everyone vested in promoting telehealth and remote patient monitoring as viable solutions to advancing health equity and providing high-quality care to rural and geographically isolated U.S. And, Clear Arch Health is thrilled to play a role!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve crafted the ultimate fall detection and health monitoring system bundle of the most advanced technologies into our all-in-one patent-pending app. Get real-time notifications and alerts about the health and safety of seniors or disabled family members living independently and peace of mind knowing that help is on the way.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

And depending on health, wealth or financial planning, many older adults will one day move to nursing homes, where the worker pool matches that in the other care services. Each part of the continuum wants to use technology to deliver better, more efficient, and health-aware care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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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. By optimizing kits and trays the pharmacy can also reduce costs by minimizing expired inventory.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Toch Sleepsense is uniquely designed to detect body movement and vital signs no matter where the sleeper is positioned. Toch Sleepsense alerts caregivers in real time when a senior is out of bed, has not returned to bed or may be experiencing a health emergency while in bed. BoundaryCare. Learn more at Toch Sleepsense.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed. One-time PERS company VRI switched to Remote Patient Monitoring (Vitals) several years ago – and was acquired last year by a healthcare services company.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Worse, for many older adults, isolation is a worsening health issue that we will hear more about as shutdowns continue and shut-in becomes the virtual norm. We’ve seen how technology and innovation in other verticals of healthcare have created better treatments, cost-savings, and health outcomes that have ultimately improved lives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

But some offered innovation for patients, whether in virtual visits and care, vital sign measurement, and improvements to patient experience. Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Canary Speech. BioIntelliSense. " Learn more. . . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The time is right for engaging with an AI-powered avatar for health advice, including assisting with fall prevention. OneStep helps enhance senior care by providing real-time patient insight and automated risk status notifications so that clinicians can deliver the most proactive care possible – preventing falls and improving health outcomes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

These future systems would offer vital signs monitoring and be integrated with health applications – and even health systems. Along came wrist-worn fitness devices like Fitbits and Apple Watches, which by 2018 had introduced Fall Detection for older adults linked to profiles in Apple Health. Are we there yet?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

But some offered innovation for patients, whether in virtual visits and care, vital sign measurement, and improvements to patient experience. Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Canary Speech. BioIntelliSense. " Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic increased the use of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) technology, which aggregates patient data such as vital signs , interprets it and provides it to the healthcare team, often a nurse. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring. RPM gained big momentum during 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. It feels like every company has a health cloud offering these days. Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

But here are 'answers': Bing Chat: There are many AI-enabled technologies that are available today to help older adults with various aspects of their health and well-being. Smart implants: Devices that can monitor vital signs, blood glucose levels, or medication intake 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Realizing that improving care coordination might be ‘increasingly vital to lowering costs and being paid’, healthcare finance organizations plan to increase their care coordination budgets – that was in 2019. See this 2022 study about care coordination in healthcare for older adults – 42% perceived poor care coordination, including 14.8%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Home health care providers currently report turning away over 25% of referred patients due to staff shortages.” Optum, a division of United Health Group , has launched a $3.3 billion bid for home health company, Amedisys , part of a trend to move as much care from the hospital to home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Independa. "T he Independa Health Hub enables LG smart TVs to offer an intuitive interface for users to initiate a video chat with a caregiver or access a menu of relevant professional services. category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Learn more at Caavo. Learn more at UniperCare. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

One of these was the Longevity Health & Innovation Summit , which featured numerous longevity and technology experts as well as a pitch challenge. Karie is a personal health companion that organizes, schedules, and dispenses pills with one-button technology, ensuring that patients are taking the right medication at the right time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This remains true, said researchers from the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, even after adjusting for age, comorbidities and preferred language. "While telehealth has many benefits, especially during a global pandemic, it may create and/or exacerbate health disparities," wrote the research team.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

A number of companies fall into the category of care collaboration – while some vendors are making these offerings free during the pandemic, including Outpatient , Iamfine , Vital Care Family App , LifePod Family Caregiving Support , Ageless Innovation Pets and undoubtedly others. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Probably given the Q1 profit drop, they had to do something about the steep revenue decline of their Personal Health businesses. The result is VRIcares , its emergency response, vitals monitoring, and medication management matching the Philips Lifeline trio of services. The leader in the “Medical Alert/Medical Alarm/PERS space.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The show also had a Startup Garage– here are five companies from that section (material from their websites): Keenly Health. Using state-of-the-art Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar, Keenly Health intelligently monitors vital signs and patient activities to provide a distinctive window into a resident’s current and future health state.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. She measures health performance, rewards her users for making progress, collects vitals and conducts in-home examinations."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health. Apps, apps and more apps.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. She measures health performance, rewards her users for making progress, collects vitals and conducts in-home examinations."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 28, 2018

Keenly Health. Keenly Health is the leading developer of advanced biomonitoring technology for use in senior living facilities and home health. Learn more at Keenly Health. category tags: Mobile PERS , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection , medication management , Family caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. But for a disease free quality of life in their later years, they will they need to fix lifestyle and health issues that did not characterize their parents. Digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This medication non-adherence (not filling prescriptions or missing dosages) is a major health issue – resulting in 10% of hospitalizations, 125,000 deaths, and costing the healthcare system up to $300 billion/year. It was clear that this was a complex regimen required for her multiple health issues. Others may not be so diligent.

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GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

Africa is facing a dramatic public health crisis - with high communicable and chronic disease rates, maternal mortality, neonatal deaths and a shocking number of HIV/AIDS cases. A primary factor in this crisis is the lack of access to health care. Learn more about how our virtual health platform can serve your remote care needs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

The patch can provide the same vital signs as the watch and also has a single-lead ECG for placement over the upper left chest wall, according to the company. EveryDose is a digital health company committed to improving medication adherence through best-in-class technology. Independa Health Hub. Not yet available. Learn more.

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

While experts continue to seek effective treatment and vaccine options for the ongoing COVID-19 virus, mental health care providers face another side of this worldwide phenomenon: the unforeseen and widespread impacts on individual and community mental health and well-being. Optimize website for SEO. Use text messaging-based marketing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

It seems reasonable that a device correctly pre-loaded with doses either at the pharmacy, by a home health worker or a nurse in senior living would improve accuracy of dosages. Here are five, in alphabetical order with content from vendors: Hero Health. RxPense is a fully connected, IoT home health hub for today’s aging population.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

With a MedWand on the patient's side, clinicians can conduct remote office visits, and through the real-time collection of multiple vital sign readings and key patient assessments, detect and follow numerous medical conditions from across town, or around the world." Learn more at MedWand. Learn more at Zibrio.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make… The FDA has approved a wearable device which will help doctors use a smart phone to monitor the vital signs of patients leaving the hospital , according to Fierce Medical Devices. HealthPatch MD is a small, wireless, wearable device which can transmit vital signs and monitor movement.

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