Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | August 03, 2023 News Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM Remote patient monitoring has helped the health system boost patient engagement, improve patient.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50/5% -- during the same period.” Precede long hall check-in walks with remote monitoring and check-in. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

In the past, health leaders have naturally been risk-averse and have, of necessity, created systems that established a wide array of administrative roadblocks to change. At present, health systems have robust analytics tools at hand to extract data from their electronic health records, but they can do a great deal more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing. RPM gained big momentum during 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. Wearables and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Many healthcare systems around the world are overburdened. How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

The shock to the system of rapidly increasing costs combined with reduced patient volumes and an inability to rapidly generate new sources of revenue has wreaked havoc across the healthcare provider industry. Provide enhanced patient care in the setting that patients prefer most – their home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

That committing to aging independently at home is a permanent decision. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or that workers in each of those do not also find work in nursing homes. Reality check: Family caregivers may hire home care services. Or they move loved ones to senior living. Toch Sleepsense.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

From the findings; One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. Lack of interfaces to senior and health care systems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The original 2016 definition from Susann Keohane and Nicola Palmarini at IBM stated: "A network of connected objects (devices, sensors) and cognitive systems with a clear mission: to actively care for people – their physical and mental well-being, homes, loved ones…and….when And not enough workers for US nursing homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012. Several times in the past decade, interviews were conducted with experts that lead to some reports about the home care industry. This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Rather, it suggested that while form factors are changing (from pendant to smart watch to home sensor technology), the shortage of labor in the caregiving market means that tech to help 66 million caregivers matters more than ever. category tags: AgeTech , computers, broadband, and social networking , hearables , smartphones.

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JUNE 27, 2023

From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions. Home health care providers currently report turning away over 25% of referred patients due to staff shortages.” Insurers see the opportunity in care in the home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

Next generation response systems were described…in 2013. And yet in the 2013 report, Next Generation Response Systems , the future was visible. The next generation response device and service would be personalized and encompass wellness monitoring and visibility to status for caregivers. Are we there yet?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. What technologies can help mitigate this growing labor crisis in the senior care (home care, home health care, senior living, long-term-care) services market?

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MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. Smart implants: Devices that can monitor vital signs, blood glucose levels, or medication intake 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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JULY 6, 2022

C ognitive Systems Caregiver Aware. " Caregiver Aware is powered by WiFi Motion ™, which is currently active in over 70 countries and leverages connected IoT devices to transform the entire home into a motion-sensing network without additional hardware. Origin Wireless WiFi Monitoring. Learn more.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Care Hub represents the next iteration of smart speakers , which have evolved from just playing music or providing the weather forecast, to enabling home security services and now supporting senior citizens at home. The monitoring system is voice activated, eliminating the need for wearable devices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

AI can be used to create personalized health plans, deliver virtual care and assistance, provide remote monitoring, detect cognitive decline and falls, manage medication, and provide social and entertainment activities. Okay, okay, so it’s a beginning.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Its automatic lighting, built-in fall detector, and integrated monitoring system not only reduces falls but can decrease the stress on caregivers, allowing high-risk individuals to be independent again. This product is a remote activity monitoring app for seniors. Learn more at Domalys. CarePredict TouchPoint.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Systemic issues of the nursing shortage, critical care capacity and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were common across countries. More than 35,000 health workers have been infected (of which 60% were nurses), particularly in the elderly care home sector.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

With the addition of data analytics, visualization and alerts, our cloud-based dashboard and reporting system supports healthcare providers." LeadingAge) "EchoCare, founded in 2015, has developed the Elderly Care Home Observer (ECHO) system, a unique sensing system for the care of the elderly during their stay at home.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Here are five companies drawn from the report and beyond – all material is from the company websites: eCaring. “ Modernizing home care -- Behind eCaring is a team that cares a lot about caregiving. Now, we’re bringing transformative technology to one of the most needed, fastest-growing markets — home care." Learn more at eCaring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

The next one, Medical alert systems (14K searches) turned up ads for multi-vendor sales sites (10 best, 5 best in Florida, no surprise with its 20% 65+ population, and there's Medical Guardian). There were only 900 searches for ‘Personal Emergency Response System’ – which is what the device actually is.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. So many of the 1.5 Most important?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2019

According to an AARP Healthy@Home report from 2008 , the only home tech device that had any level of awareness (91% of responders) was Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS). Today, the shortage of workers for assisted living and home care is a crisis. Was this just too early for the home monitoring category?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

"MedSign’s flagship product Qortex is the first TV-based telehealth platform that virtually connects hospitals, medical professionals, home care agencies and pharmaceutical companies with their patients 24/7, enabling real-time video, voice, and vital sign monitoring all in the comfort and safety of home. UniperCare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

Amwell is now moving forward to help providers offer ‘ hospital at home’ – now part of multiple insurance offerings. He talked about the capability to use cloud faxing for providers who lack an EHR system, enabling doctors to prescribe, query the network and download patient records. Mcare Home Health Hub. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Much more than mere video chats, telehealth uses intranets and the internet networks to observe, diagnose, initiate or otherwise medically intervene, administer, monitor, record, and/or report on the continuum of care people receive when ill, injured or wanting to stay well. Perhaps departments of health can oversee chronic healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

"She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. She measures health performance, rewards her users for making progress, collects vitals and conducts in-home examinations." Alma Home. "By

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2023

In addition to the government-supported discount on broadband access, the report recommended “uture-focused tools and assistive technology, such as smart homes, wearable blood pressure and heart monitoring devices, automated pill dispensers, e-learning modules, task management apps, speech amplification and adaptation systems, and geo-tracking.”

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The chances are good that their family member can remain at home through early stages, even continuing to live alone Even after a diagnosis, they'll continue to wonder whether it really is dementia and look for another test they can do at home. GreatCall Lively Home MedMinder , PillPack Ring Nest. Home safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. The 'problem of plenty' for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

This is only natural as it reduces footfall to physical places and helps avoid the need for those who are most vulnerable in having to leave their homes. Whilst the system used by NHS General Practice is fairly well embedded, there is nothing similar for private practices or for any hospitals or dental services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

AI capabilities combined with a Voice First interface is increasingly expected – and so they are part of new offerings to help older adults, bothliving at home or in senior living communities. HandsFree Health's WellBe, is a secure, HIPAA compliant in-home voice-activated device that speaks when spoken to. Learn more at Safely-You.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2018

The boom in home care has side effects -- turnover and risk. We want to trust home care workers with aging parents. Given expanding life expectancies at age 65 – an average of 20 more years for men and more for women, the possibility of ‘aging in place’ in a private home may be growing. Cameras. Motion sensors.

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