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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from June 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Who can comprehend that 43% of Covid-19 deaths are linked to nursing homes? Or that high speed internet would not be available in nursing homes or the dementia care units in assisted living where their relatives now lived. In the time of Covid-19, some are talking about an increasing use of technology in their nursing homes.

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Polyclinics and the Labour party's Digital Health plans for the NHS

Lloyd Price

Additional key points: £171 million "Fit for the Future Fund": Labour proposes dedicated funding for equipping the NHS with advanced technology, including doubling the number of CT and MRI scanners and prioritizing those with built-in AI tools. NHS polyclinics were first introduced in England in 2008 as part of a wider reform of the NHS.

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The Importance of the Digital Front Door™ in Healthcare

Digital Health Today

operates a virtual health care platform that connects patients and clinicians through phone and video interviews. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, however, it has gained national recognition for its services. Zipnosis, Inc. Q3: What does re-humanizing mean? I would invest in genomics.

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Digital health is ready for its second act. Will it deliver on its promise to empower patients and providers?

Redox

We’ll explore the recent history of health IT and then look at current forces that make today very different from 2008 when EHR adoption kicked into overdrive and set us down the path we find ourselves today. Laying the foundation for Health IT.