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Tech-enabled home care 2012-2021 -- are we there yet?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Frail patients, according to insiders, are increasingly being discharged from hospitals directly to home, bypassing rehab nursing homes. Unlike nursing homes, no standards-setting organizations specify minimum care requirements in the home. The above points are little changed from 2012.

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Rising Nursing Shortages are Causing a Nationwide Healthcare Crisis – How Using a Well-Designed Mobile Employment App Can Help

Healthcare IT Today

With large-scale nursing strikes happening across the nation, o ne thing is for certain: nurses feel overworked. By 2030, one million nurses are expected to retire. With nursing shortages looming, rapid onboarding has become a major focus for the healthcare industry to help hire and retain nurses.

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More than a decade ago -- a look at the Future of Home Care Technology

Aging in Place Technology Watch

An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012. This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012. As seen in 2012, the future of home care would transform, supported by software.

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Did you miss one? Four Aging and Health Tech Blog Posts June 2023

Aging in Place Technology Watch

An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012. This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012. As seen in 2012, the future of home care would transform, supported by software.

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CENSUS: Senior care growth means tech change will be mandatory

Aging in Place Technology Watch

million) in 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . For both assisted living and nursing homes, checking in on residents at night while they are sleeping may still be the standard of laborious practice. Consider the details shown in this table: The U.S. Census Bureau projects that in 2050, the U.S.

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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hasselberg will outline the tele-behavioral health model developed at the University of Rochester, inspired by the eight-month waitlist he faced in 2012 as a practicing geriatric psychiatrist. People who live in parts of the country with few clinicians, he says, can have access to specialists in more saturated regions.

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Judge orders Lee Health to turn over records of sexual assault allegations against staff

FierceHealthIT

A federal judge has ordered Lee Health to provide all records related to allegations of sexual assault against its employees between 2012 and 2016, as part of a lawsuit filed by a woman who said she was raped by one of the health system’s nurses.

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