Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2023

Furthermore, post-hospital care will increasingly be tech-enabled , including use of voice based chatbots like Sensely’s Molly. Increasingly AI will be incorporated into new home design and may optimized based on requirements of the homeowner – built into Wi-Fi, part of appliances and voice-operated. Recording life stories.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

HomeEXCEPT. “ HomeEXCEPT is hardware and software for active seniors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and researchers. The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Voice to text helps those with diminished hearing. The last was offered by a giant US network. Learn more. Sundial Alexa Skill. "The

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Consider interactions with call centers, drive-through food locations, healthcare portals and and banking websites – as well as websites that present chatbots as a parallel option when responding to a query to pop up with ‘how can we help’. category tags: Generative AI , AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , AgeTech

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Nursing 131

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Older adults benefit from voice-AI enabled innovation and deployment. For one thing, at least two-thirds of older adults (age 70+) own smartphones , the 65+ population prefers Alexa among voice assistants , one-third of Americans have smart speakers. Researchers want to understand how best to create a voice assistant.

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Telehealth 62

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

You probably knew this – that 2018 was the year of voice tech and healthcare. As for 2019, according to Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs , "expect a proliferation of bad voice experiences." . onsider the healthcare experiences we have endured – it’s a good time to consider a new way to interact with the health system.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 83

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Wearables, smart home tech, and home assistants (assume that means voice offerings) have not crossed the halfway mark in adoption. category tags: smartphones , tablets , wearables , smart home , Television/Smart TV For those with smartphones and wearables, daily use is prevalent. Will someone please just show me?

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MARCH 31, 2021

Karie is easy to use, enables greater patient autonomy and ensures better healthcare through a highly coordinated program." Speaking out loud to make your voice assistant turn off all lights, play your music, or start the heater in your car feels great initially. Learn more at AceAge. Dance4Healing. " Flic Smart Button.

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Digital Health 138

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Also for sure, the use of healthcare portals has seen increased penetration – in 2020, 60% of patients in the US were offered access to a portal, and 40% accessed their records through it. . category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , SNF , wearables , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

According to Pew Research in 2020, 21 million Americans lack access to broadband , as well as 60% of healthcare facilities outside of metropolitan areas. While smart speakers and voice assistants have improved ease of use and seamless upgrades, both depend on broadband to work properly. Device access. Training access.

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MARCH 4, 2020

This includes smartphones, tablets, smart home technology, Voice First hardware and virtual assistants, and in-home sensors. Each of those devices is enabled for older adults by either more targeted marketing and packaging, enabling software, or bundling into training and solutions for in-home caregiving and/or healthcare.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 133

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 105

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a given -- Voice First will be even more pervasive in 2020. The rapid growth of the market for voice-enabled technologies has been a phenomenon within the past two years that can understand spoken requests and commands, answer questions, and even offer scheduled alerts. Why tackle the topic of voice, health, and well-being?

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 69

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MARCH 30, 2023

In healthcare, there are research reports and predictions, though adoption has been slow. Leveraging voice recognition and AI-based technology, the SmartCall virtual assistant proactively calls users, asking a variety of key wellbeing questions to detect situations requiring attention.

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JULY 30, 2019

The Voice Summit, like Voice First itself, is still in its early years. Another (healthcare) went to Suki , a voice notes offering for doctors that "has demonstrated up to 70% reduction in time spent entering notes." . Speak2 provides a senior-care focused solution that leverages voice command, smart technology and cloud.

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mHealth Nursing Digital Health Telehealth 65

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. That is a sign.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. From in-home motion sensors to Amazon Care to Alexa Together, homes of older adults will continue to be smarter and more useful, especially for healthcare. Bills are in Congress will make it permanent.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Meanwhile, the OTC hearing aids, starting at $199, can be purchased without an audiologist assisting, inside a retail store or online. And basic Medicare still does not cover, although Medicare Advantage plans (like United Healthcare , for example) in some locations do. The high price?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

With Curadite’s MMP, healthcare providers and loved ones have tangible evidence that medication is being taken as prescribed. With the addition of data analytics, visualization and alerts, our cloud-based dashboard and reporting system supports healthcare providers." Orbita Assist. Learn more at Curadite. How would you know?

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Nursing 124

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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. MedSign’s Qortex is a secure, HIPAA-compliant, two-way communication platform that connects healthcare professionals to their patients through the home television.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Observe that despite the hysteria over Amazon layoffs , voice technology has passed its hype cycle and is now present and utilized in at least 95 million US households. Along with CareAngel and Papa , the company now focuses, no surprise, on healthcare. Up ahead -- CES 2023. That website shut down around 2020. Check it out !].

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Nursing 136

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MAY 27, 2020

These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers. What about Voice First engagement technologies – or other tools for caregiver teams and family connection? What technology considerations will need to be next, moving from a desperate to a more measured pace?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 21, 2023 News Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from. The process.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Technology’s role in mitigating it is being studied in research programs and healthcare. AI and voice, Virtual Nurse Assistant – smart and dynamic, listens and learns, offering personalized, conversational, health monitoring and management. category tags: social isolation , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline

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Nursing 62

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

More from August 2020: Voice tech is pervasive – for some, but hardware market adoption may be slowing. The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant market (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) as penetrating one third of the US population – 111.8 What’s holding the others back?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

Voice First is changing health and wellness offerings today. Already the predicted capability to speak a request or instruction without having to type or tap on a device – known as Voice First – has transformed how we interact with technology. Home health care – perhaps the best fit for Voice First. So what’s intriguing?

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MAY 18, 2020

It is encouraging to see this sheer quantity of free offerings , accelerated interest in telehealth , and other new innovations in smart homes, healthcare and robotics that have emerged in the past few months of the Covid-19 pandemic. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HandsFree Health. “ HandsFree Health combines WellBe's unique virtual assistant with capabilities from industry-leading health and technology companies including Microsoft, Healthwise, Cerner, and PokitDot. Each tag contains a unique QR code and matching alphanumeric code. Learn more at HandsFree Health. Learn more at eTagz.

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Telecare mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

The objective of these remote monitoring technologies is to help healthcare teams, care workers and/or families understand if any issues are occurring inside the home when they cannot be there in person. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing. Essence SmartCare’s VitalOn offering performs a similar function.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Time for AI in healthcare? at that point with "40,000-plus innovators in 130 chapters across 31 countries," was acquired by the Louisville Healthcare CEO Council. Louisville ownership has transformed both its members and sponsorship -- senior living, skilled nursing, healthcare, insurers. In 2021, Aging 2.0,

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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. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Family caregivers.

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Remote care Telehealth HIPAA Medicare 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If there was a time to look at the role of monitoring and engagement technologies that augment and assist the worker in the care of older adults – it would seem that this is the time. According to PHI analysis, the job pays so poorly today that 40% live in low-income households and 43% rely on public assistance. Welcome to iPad!

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Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ category tags: Mobile PERS , smartphones , wearables, smart watch. Another long-time PERS player sees a watch, makes a watch.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

Voice First -- The year began and ended with speaking. Strolling is not the right word, but as we approached the Las Vegas Convention Center last January, Google Assistant was on giant billboards all around – with competing and nearby giant Amazon Alexa signs. And shouting. But I am sure the blaring will begin at the door.

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Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Stanford Medicine offers a Partnership in AI-Assisted Care. AI is a fundamental machine-learning element in voice technology , which is here to stay, despite the noisy racket about Amazon. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 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. category tags: baby boomers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , Family caregivers , VR/AR technology , voice/AI technology.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

The objective of these remote monitoring technologies is to help healthcare teams, care workers and/or families understand if any issues are occurring inside the home when they cannot be there in person. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Mobile PERS , IoT and home monitoring , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health.

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