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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring. In what year?

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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring. In what year?

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Tech-enabled Home Care Redux? Do investors remember 2016?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

billion – or one quarter of the $95 billion home health market. Meanwhile the Hometeam remaining assets were absorbed into HT Health and renamed Vesta Health in 2020 , with a $30 million Series A round and a focus on the reimbursed Medicaid market. hour to start at Walmart. Why the froth? And if so, when?

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One in two U.S. “Macy’s?” ” you ask.

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Looking ahead to 2023 -- what should we expect?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider what’s happened with over the counter hearing aids, now available in kiosks at retailers like Walmart and Rite Aid. But all that is just a beginning – early January brings the Consumer Electronics Show and many more innovations that can help older adults with health, mobility, cognitive issues, and caregiving.

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A new COVID-19 wave is coming – how can health systems prepare?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When coronavirus cases begin to grow in early spring, health systems were forced to pivot quickly – sometimes within a matter of days – to allocate scant resources and implement new technologies and workflows. " One problem, he said, is the technology hospitals use to record medication use around health systems.

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Will Retail Health Really Disrupt Healthcare?

David Chou

The American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation recently released a report forecasting the revolutionary changes that retail firms and tech giants will bring to healthcare delivery in 2023 and beyond. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 Pharmacy As The Money Maker CVS has over 10,000 retail pharmacies in the U.S.