Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Philips launched its own Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) offering in 2005 through the acquisition of Lifeline Systems and gave up 16 years later, selling it to Connect America. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Here are four blog posts from November: Filling in the Tech Basics. Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. Read more. . .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

I talked about the “battle of the (wrist)bands” witnessed at CES 2013, and spotted the early hints of the consumer’s connected home for health. 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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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

MARCH 1, 2022

And to stay up to date, here are the four blog posts from February, 2022: For older adults, television is a solid rock in a shifting tech landscape. Alternatively, a device can be connected to a TV to enable an organization or family to connect directly with older adults who may not be comfortable with smartphones, tablets or smart speakers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

Here are four blog posts from June: Four technology categories to remotely monitor a caregiver. Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors , dementia care.

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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. And Linkage Connect surveys the oldest, with a sizable sample of 2398 older adults. Is 2022 the tipping point for technology and older adults?

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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? Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology , Family caregivers. Study the exhibit halls online if you can’t be there in person.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 Between trade events, including the Connected Health Conference in Boston, LeadingAge in San Diego, HLTH in Las Vegas, the Aging 2.0 October was a long and extravagant month for the tech market.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

In case you missed them, here are five Covid-19 blog posts from an April that was unlike any other: Covid-19 – Technology changes accelerate – some a work-in-progress. These do not include, unfortunately, providing usable technologies to connect isolated seniors with families. What might they be to help with loneliness?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 9, 2018

At any rate, here are the four blog posts from the month of April. According to the report Connected Living for Social Aging , which was published 7 years ago this month, the future was predicted. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging technology. Learn more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

Here are four blog posts to take a look at in this sleepy week: Time to Worry about Your Data. According to the report Connected Living for Social Aging , which was published 7 years ago this month, the future was predicted. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. What’s next?

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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. Sumbul Desai, VP of health at Apple, in February 2019. ON THE RECORD.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the ‘connected’ home, note trouble and aggravation. Those reading this blog can look around their own home – noting a Wi-Fi network, smartphone, smart speaker, or in some homes a smart doorbell, thermostat, refrigerator – or a too-smart car.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2023

“We’re excited to leverage our expertise in omnichannel, supply chain, Caring Center support and services, in-home support and our ability to connect patients and providers through Current Health’s care at home platform. Keep staying tuned to the Health Populi blog as I continue to grow and learn more in the field on our home as site of care.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect. 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

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. 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].

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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. What about Voice First engagement technologies – or other tools for caregiver teams and family connection?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Many of the offerings now include voice interfaces and some have introduced AI features to collect behavior data about the wearer which Gartner refers to a category adjacent to Internet of Things (IoT) which it calls the Internet of Behavior (IoB). category tags: wearables, smart watch , digital health , games, fun and fitness.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

The barbershop and beauty salon are important community touch points for health, wellness, and social connection in so many peoples’ lives. As Wishhover observed in the Allure story, “ No matter the circumstances, the DIY experience can never re-create the connection and community that exist in local salons. ” .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Among the 30 interviewees across 28 organizations, including Microsoft, AARP, Best Buy Health, Home Instead, and the Consumer Technology Association, here are a few of the themes that emerged from these conversations: Connection matters – tech connectivity is a pre-requisite.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

The first chart shows the data on “inputs:” spending on healthcare overall, and split into categories of inpatient care, outpatient care, long-term care, and other categories. Consumers who use more primary care can lower healthcare costs, as this blog in Health Affairs pointed out this week.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2020

In any event, the user manual for Sureresponse is still around and promises to "connect you to assistance every hour of every day." That statement has no connection to today's Care Smart Watch for seniors. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Seniors , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. That someone should not be a relative.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

The new market sizing follows their prediction in 2017 that wearables will be the key to connected health monitoring , including this prescient observation that: “ the next wave of wearable health market growth will come from integrated systems that are able to sense danger signals.”. More when there’s more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

But how will this category be applied in the older adult marketplace, either directly or for those who serve them? In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the 'connected' home, people returning products note their trouble and aggravation. Which means it will become very useful.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This places them on a very short list of connected health developers who have patiently developed clinical-grade health techs designed for the consumer market that have undergone regulatory scrutiny. Here is Omron’s blog written for #CES2018 on Going for Zero. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

But how will this category be applied in the older adult marketplace, either for them directly or for those who serve them? In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the ‘connected’ home, note trouble and aggravation. To be tackled in an upcoming report, The Future of AI and Older Adults , being researched now.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This is the tenth anniversary of the launch of this Market Overview of technology for ‘Aging in Place’, to be published in March 2019 – the category of offerings that help enable older adults to remain longer in their home of choice. What a difference a decade makes. But don't bet on it. .

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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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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 8, 2023

To the latter category— team building principles that have become easier in remote work environments —consider the growth in the number of technologies that enable faster, more regular, and more frequent connections and collaboration opportunities and spaces. However, it is not all bad. Reprinted by permission of the author.

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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. By 2018, had approved Dexcom’s G5 Continuous Glucose Monitor , Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre CGM , Medtronic’s Guardian Connect , and Dexcom’s G6.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Warning -- this is not a blog post about what to give to seniors. Whether it is our ever-so-smart phones, our oddly-blue screens, our uncharged or mismatched connections, or other bafflement -- like accessing Internet radio stations or streaming music or video? Who gifted that product anyway and can we call them?

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HAY on FHIR

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

If you’re in this category, then reach out to me and I’ll be happy to point you in the right direction – I’ve written about Node RED a few times on my blog site , and will write more about this use case when it’s ready. Datatypes as the structure of the contents of the resources (the atoms in the molecules).

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Mend

APRIL 12, 2023

In part 3 of our blog series, Mend reviews the temporary changes that will end on May 11, 2023. Medicare’s Category 3 Telehealth Codes These codes will remain reimbursable through the end of the PHE year. Stay up-to-date with the latest policy changes via the Center for Connected Telehealth Policy and CMS websites.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Category 1: e-Patient Principles. ” She works to advise organizations on how to navigate the intersection of health and technology, and a main focus of her work as an advisor and researcher is the power of connection among fellow patients and caregivers. .” Category 2: Contribution to SPM.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

ONC published a blog post highlighting how to meet the 2015 Edition Cures Update requirements for ONC certification. Digital health and safety platform Connect America announced its platform for continuous at-home monitoring , along with an alert service built in partnership with data platform HealthShare Exchange.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Or mull over the technology industry, which is releasing new versions of every category faster than you can Google them, filling voids like adding mouse for the iPad. So in that vein, here are five blog posts, mostly rants, from May, 2019: Older adult finances and future senior housing options are out of sync. Read more. .

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