Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Interestingly, healthcare data breaches are largely caused by insiders and cost $400+ per user data record breached. Here are four blog posts from September 2018: Investors continue to salivate over health tech. So Optum acquires DaVita Medical Group and Humana acquires Kindred Healthcare. Gee, what do they do?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Approaching the 20 th year in this job category, so let’s reflect. Industry analysts wear many hats, but the primary role is to understand and communicate about a particular category market of companies/players. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Here are the most-read blog posts from 2018 – take another look if you missed them. category tags: hearing loss , Voice First/AI technology , wearables, smart watch , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Also for sure, the use of healthcare portals has seen increased penetration – in 2020, 60% of patients in the US were offered access to a portal, and 40% accessed their records through it. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , SNF , seniors and aging policy , AI and machine learning.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2020

Here are the five blog posts from June 2020: Tech adoption older adults matter more now than ever. So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here are the most read blog posts from 2019. Healthcare observers are concerned that false positives from ECG readings could propel people unnecessarily to already-overloaded Emergency Rooms. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , aging in place , seniors and aging policy , tech-enabled home care.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

“This marks the first time in CES history that a healthcare company will take the mainstage for a keynote at the show,” CTA’s press release stated. I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Here are the six blog posts to kick off the new year in January 2019: 2018-2019 look back and ahead at tech buzz, hope, and hype. Lots of negative tech energy in 2018, including healthcare data breaches , Facebook’s loss of trust , ditto with Google and its much discussed anti-competitive positioning in search.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Scanning through the collection of blog posts from April and May, the obvious has finally occurred. Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022. One might note that individuals 55 and older account for more than half of healthcare spending , with costs rising with age. Soon all 54 million of them will be over 65.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? It is encouraging to see this sheer quantity of free offerings , accelerated interest in telehealth , and other innovations in smart homes, healthcare and robotics that have emerged in the past few months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Here are six blog posts from October 2018: What is Caregiving Technology, Anyway? There were more sessions acknowledging caregiving and even acknowledging aging adults -- as well as gnashing of teeth about non-adoption of technology in healthcare. You probably knew this – that 2018 was the year of voice tech and healthcare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Food as medicine – Segueing from the heart to health and nutrition, the food-as-medicine (or food-is-medicine) movement has taken hold in mainstream healthcare. There are 26 exhibits listed under the “sleep” category on the CES 2024 app, featured here, and the National Sleep Foundation will also be exhibiting.

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Xealth

MAY 1, 2023

SEATTLE—May 1, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, announced today that it was named a 2023 Medigy HITMC Award Winner in the Blog of the Year category. Every year, the Healthcare and IT Marketing Community (HITMC) honors the individuals and organizations who distinguished themselves over the past year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2023

” Now ad in prescription drugs which is the mature category of DTC in healthcare — a unique aspect of American medicine as the only country in the world, except for New Zealand, which permits direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. There’s more on Sequence here. health care. and Europe.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 17, 2021

The integration will allow patients to share data such as heart rate, sleep and falls with their provider, said BlueJeans Chief Innovator and Strategist Krish Ramakrishnan in a blog post. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is true across all income categories, from those earning under $24,000 a year to the well-off raking in $180K or more, we learn in Gallup’s poll conducted with West Health, finding that Majorities of people rank cost and equity of U.S. healthcare negatively. adults in late June 2022.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , voice/AI technology , senior living , robotics. For a Chief Medical Officer, what role does technology play? Says USC researcher, Maja Mataric : "Robots give patients the illusion of having a physical companion…it isn’t actually very hard to project empathy (Mabu).Empathy

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2023

Reviewing this new paper inspired me to explore the current state of the pet/health market and implications for their human families, my weaving of various stories explored in this Health Populi blog post. Pet treats, in particular, were a growing category in terms of product trips per buyer to the pet care aisle.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

But other categories of usage and their user groups are coming into focus – consider the multiple examples in senior living during the visitation lockdown. These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Thinking beyond the bug at other categories of consumer purchases. this week’s Modern Healthcare cover realizes that COVID-19 will test the healthcare industry’s readiness. This March 9th issue of Modern Healthcare features an article titled, “COVID-19 outbreak exposes weaknesses in infection prevention.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

spent nearly twice as much as other wealthy countries on healthcare, mostly due to higher prices for both labor and products (especially prescription drugs). The study analyzes healthcare spending and outcomes across eleven countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the world’s wealthiest nations.

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Digital Health Wire

MAY 10, 2023

Bessemer Venture Partners recently put out a top-tier blog post outlining how to scale a health tech business to $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and the benchmarks to look out for along the way. Healthcare SaaS – Cloud-based software alongside data and analytics with highly recurring revenue.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Stay tuned for blog posts in January. Along with CareAngel and Papa , the company now focuses, no surprise, on healthcare. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , vehicle/transportation technology-services. Here’s hoping that 2023 makes tech installation and integration easy for families and consumers. Check it out !].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

According to Pew Research in 2020, 21 million Americans lack access to broadband , as well as 60% of healthcare facilities outside of metropolitan areas. This is the last blog post in the series about The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020 , a research report to be released soon]. Device access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These will be featured in blogs over the next week or two. For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), And basic Medicare still does not cover, although Medicare Advantage plans (like United Healthcare , for example) in some locations do.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

In the coronavirus-self-care moment, DIY hair color has been a winning category in fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) at retail. That is the Question” in a CDC blog in 2017, well before the coronavirus raised its crowns in 2019. And let’s not leave other hair out of the discussion: let’s talk about facial hair.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

GoInvo has been working for a long time on how to communicate health and healthcare data in enchanting ways. I interviewed Fred for research I was conducted on behalf of the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) in 2014. are concepting, which I wrote about back in 2007 focusing on Toyota’s wellness car concept.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

So many weeks, so many blog posts to, uh, post. Note the top trends that matter this Many changes underway in the enabling tech categories for older adults – including the importance of tech for home care agencies – not just the apps for the workers, but for care recipients, such as remote monitoring. Isn’t March a l-o-n-g month?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. In this growing era of healthcare collaboration, Omron worked with AliveCor on the BP/EKG technology; here’s more detail on AliveCor’s website here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Healthcare leaders and their tech partners agree on the need for radical change – and the result is the ramp-up of remote care offerings for the home. This is the 5 th blog post in the series about The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020, a research report to be published later in Q4 2020]. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Information sites: Healthline also offers a list of the best diabetes blogs (curated) of 2019 and another blogsite that aggregates a longer list. billion in avoidable healthcare costs. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. Managing medication adherence.

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AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

When it comes to clinical telemedicine , there are two general categories that most “sharing” technologies tend to fall into: live real-time and store-and-forward technologies. This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. Real-time telemedicine technologies, as you might have guessed, are more immediate.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

Lots of negative tech energy in 2018, including healthcare data breaches , Facebook’s loss of trust , ditto with Google and its much discussed anti-competitive positioning in search. Warning, more blog posts about CES next week while there]. True, we are at the beginning of an adoption curve (hype cycle). For starters.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 8, 2023

SPM’s Participatory Medicine Manifesto includes “I Will” statements that aim to help patients, caregivers, and providers reimagine the dynamics of their healthcare. The post Team Building In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on SPM Blog. However, it is not all bad. Reprinted by permission of the author.

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