Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

in place with Zoom, FaceTime -- and few place settings. is a learning and community platform where older adults can learn about a variety of topics through a live, interactive peer-to-peer teaching model. November – the month for giving thanks -- remotely. It was a strange Thanksgiving for many – staying (stuck?) GetSetUp.io

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 6, 2022

"Honor Expert allows older adults and their families to easily call a dedicated toll-free number or start an online chat to ask questions about major aging-related topics, such as health and wellness, care planning, and home management. Quil Assure and PeoplePower. " TapRoot Ella.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 24, 2018

LeadingAge is the trusted voice for aging—seize this opportunity to add yours." GSA’s 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting will take place November 14-18, 2018 at the John B. Aging Innovation Challenge, New York, November 29. "New Learn more. Optimize, San Francisco, November 14-15. Get smarter, faster.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

At HIMSS17, I gave a talk in a big room about how technology can scale SDOH; we had standing room only, which is not a brag — just a fact of the pent-up demand for this topic just two years ago. But age is a factor in these conversations, where younger people are more comfortable talking about SDoHs with clinicians than older people.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

These three topics all occurred in the past couple of weeks. We can see that 44% of people ages 55-64 would prefer text messaging, only a few percentage points fewer than preferences for emails or phone calls. So even older work-age patients are seeking the convenient communication channel of text in 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

The previous article in introduced the topic of social isolation and showed its relationship to the subjective feeling of loneliness. A big focus of their Aging in Place service is helping keep the patients engaged with caregivers and families.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In Declining Use of Primary Care Among Commercially Insured Adults in the United States, 2008-2016 , the researchers analyzed data from a national sample of adult health plan members between 18 and 64 years of age and saw that visits to PCPS fell by 24.2%, from 169.5 visits per 100 member-years.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Consider the Chicago Tribune article about tech for aging in place. Here are four Sept blog posts on these and related topics: In a time of short-staffing, sensors are increasingly useful in the care of older adults. But its importance at every age, especially for older adults.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exec Summary: Arab Health, taking place January 29th to February 1st, 2024, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, is much more than just a conference. These conferences cover a wide range of topics, including emerging technologies, cutting-edge research, best practices, and regional healthcare challenges.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Self-driving technology was a big topic in 2017 , much of the hype including mention of benefits for older adults. 2018 Market Overview of Technology for Aging in Place was published (March, 2018). Technology and tech-enabled services matter for older adults. Uncorrected hearing loss isolates and harms older adults.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2022

As you go through your career, clarity about whether you want to provide care for a specialty population, a specific age group, or specific diagnoses will become clearer. Various topics include telehealth, clinician burnout, management, and providing care to specific populations. However, this insight might develop over time.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Doug Lindsay calls himself as Transformational Thought Leader, an apt description for an advocate and educator who developed the surgery that fixed him after he fell gravely ill to a rare autonomic-adrenal disease at the age of 21. And that, not surprisingly, is a topic that drives Doug now as an educator and advocate.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2023

But with so much out there to work on and talk about, it’s easy for some topics to get lost in the weeds. Andrew Meadow, Founding Partner at Health Innovation Capital – Innovation targeting the unmet medical needs of patients from neonatology all the way through to young adults under the age of 21.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 26, 2017

The GDPR also requires that any Consent given must be understood by the subject regardless of their age, education, or human language issues. The FHIR Consent supports this by having a place to record the actual text presented to the patient. See my Privacy Consent topic table of contents And my FHIR topic table of contents

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 11, 2018

Little Rock, AR and San Diego, CA – July 11, 2018 – The 4 th Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH) Telehealth Research Symposium will take place on October 24 th and 25 th , 2018 in San Diego, CA. Register and submit abstracts for the conference at [link].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

You can also listen to our ViVE 2023 Preview in Episode 110 of the Healthcare IT Podcast to get our take on the most important trends and topics on the agenda. The National Institute on Aging announced its second Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator ; submissions are due on April 20.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

health citizens in feeling more comfortable sharing their personal data: The company would place data in the most secure data protection system available. adults ages 25-64, college educated, in the top 25% of household income, who are avid, engaged consumers of media for business and public policy news.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

Medication non-adherence has long been a topic of concern, with the cost of poor adherence amounting to $177 billion each year , 50% of treatment failures, and as many as 25,000 deaths. RxPense is a fully connected, IoT home health hub for today’s aging population. During Covid-19, do older adults take their prescribed meds?

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

You used to have a regular face-to-face gym workout or a regular place where you and your partner or friends might go for exercise or workout goals. You can still go to a lovely place, to tourist attractions, museums, or even the zoo. There are lots of places operating online that offer exercise and cultural classes.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Patients still want a long-term provider relationship but they also want healthcare on their terms – at the time and place that works best for their hectic lifestyles. At this point, you might be thinking about that age-old telehealth question: what about reimbursement? More Telehealth Topics. Contact Us.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2022

As you go through your career, clarity about whether you want to provide care for a specialty population, a specific age group, or specific diagnoses will become clearer. Various topics include telehealth, clinician burnout, management, and providing care to specific populations. However, this insight might develop over time.

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Digital Health Today

JUNE 17, 2021

As expected, one of the hot topics was the COVID-19 Pandemic; Coronavirus has altered the landscape of worldwide healthcare irrevocably and demonstrated the necessity to accelerate the digital transformation. Yet, we must not forget to empower patients in this great leap forward to the new Digital Age.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MARCH 12, 2019

We live in an age of instant global connectivity and there’s obviously much to celebrate. With access to information on just about any topic you can imagine, also comes an opportunity for organizations to prey upon our data with perverse incentives.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye. Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? ” How does all this relate to revenue, the topic of this article? What if the trumpet shall sound?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. Software Needed So the nuts and bolts of a digital insurance card are in place. This information allows the provider to validate the cards, a topic I’ll take up in the next section.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A few topics that stood out. Consider: Aging in a Virtual World. Once upon a time, in a language far, far away…We used terms like long distance , remote , and telepresence to describe services and experiences that were taking place somewhere else. Warning, more blog posts about CES next week while there]. Read more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

A few topics that stood out: We can hear voice tech with all devices and for all people – especially for seniors. NOTE TO READERS: If you receive this blog in an email, please click to see the full post on Aging in Place Technology Watch website where if you like, you can comment. For starters.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Any discussion regarding artificial intelligence would be remiss if we did not address the topics of trust, ethics, and bias. Patients’ comfort level with computer based diagnostic inference and algorithmic treatment recommendations is growing slowly as our population ages into a comfort level.

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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As these tools become exponentially smarter, safer and more reliable (an estimated 32 times more powerful in the next five years), everyday Americans will gain access to unparalleled medical expertise—doled out in easily understandable terms, at any time, from any place. Already, Google’s Med-PaLM 2 has scored an expert-level 86.5%

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TheraNest

JUNE 23, 2020

Evidence-based practices like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are effective for people of all ages, but pediatric therapists have a special mission to tailor these techniques for children and adolescents. If they miss, they have to share something relevant to the day’s topic.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

It’s no secret that kids are prone to getting hurt at school – from the germs floating on tables and chairs to breaking bones during recess, the nurse’s office is often the busiest place on campus. The post How Pediatric Telehealth Is Enhancing Healthcare appeared first on American Well.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

It’s no secret that kids are prone to getting hurt at school – from the germs floating on tables and chairs to breaking bones during recess, the nurse’s office is often the busiest place on campus. The post How Pediatric Telehealth Is Enhancing Healthcare appeared first on American Well.

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TheraNest

JUNE 23, 2020

Although there’s no hard and fast age cap for who can benefit from play therapy, it’s most commonly used to treat children under age 12. Using toy phones is a fun, indirect way for a child to interact with you on difficult topics in a way that feels less threatening. Who Benefits From Play Therapy and How It Can Help.

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KB Dental Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This means that many of the devices are aging, and all managers shouldn’t be worried about this fact. The aging devices could be updated in order to complete the new levels of advanced performances. The process deserves a place as part of the eco-line family. It means that the lifetime of the device is extended.

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GlobalMed

MAY 2, 2019

Topics included virtual care reimbursement, telemedicine’s impact on social determinants of health, and specific new care delivery models for children and seniors. We speculated that because almost every mature health delivery system now has some type of telemedicine model in place, fewer teams needed to explore new vendors this year.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

This article is written to clarify the telehealth issues surrounding the controversy and draw attention to one of the industry’s newest services as telehealth proponents struggle to find their place in the shifting US landscape. Many states have recently adjusted their forms to include questions about medication (nonsurgical) abortion.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 6, 2015

In light of the Anthem breach earlier this year, the issue is becoming even more of a hot topic. Hire cyber security and keep the right safeguards in place. Can the healthcare industry properly balance convenience and privacy in the digital age? Balancing Convenience & Privacy. Know your data. Look to other industries.

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