Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Sites are emerging that aggregate and update ChatGPT prompts by category. In other wrap-up non-surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. Here are six prior attendees in the older adult, wellbeing category that serves older adults.

Nursing 121

Nursing Digital Health 121

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Future growth of that category may slow due to market saturation or possible innovation cutbacks from vendors like Amazon and Google. Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support. The 2023 versions of voice-first interfaces on smart speakers are no longer ground-breaking – 35% of Americans now own one.

Medicare 69

Medicare Telehealth Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

Two weeks ago, VIVE in Los Angeles , "The Only Digital Health Event Focused on You" was attended by 8000 people there to hear 300 speakers on topics of interest to payers, providers, and those interested in consumer health. Consider the recent big healthcare events.

Digital Health 58

Digital Health Health IT 58

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

With so many entrants in the AgeTech, accessibility and health categories seeking visibility and possible global reach. category tags: vision and vision technology , hearables/hearing technology , smart home , digital health Today it is just CES 2024 and it is really a B2B(2B2B) event. Learn more.

Digital Health 139

Digital Health 139

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. . Fifty-three million Americans are providing care to someone with health or functional needs – in short, they are family caregivers.

Remote care 131

Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In other wrap-up surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. Touchpoints Digital Health wearable. " Jabra Enhance Plus OTC hearing aid. " Jesse Joonho Lim, the founder of Petnow Inc. market upon the exhibition at CES 2023."

Digital Health 140

Digital Health Pain management 140

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.

Health Technology 105

Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 105

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 17, 2022

If this were any other health innovation, it would have been matched to need years ago. Imagine if the Digital Health technologists had to deal with the FDA to get you a tool like the Apple Watch’s health features approved in 2018 , the equivalent of 10 minutes after the watch was announced.

Digital Health 130

Digital Health 130

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

Digital Health is in its bubble of $8.1 Imagine three overlapping ovals – a Venn diagram of markets – Active Aging , Caregiving , Digital Health – why is it that VCs mostly look the other way when anything with the word ‘aging’ surfaces, but jump ( possibly mistakenly ) when these other categories are mentioned?

Digital Health 85

Digital Health 85

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today’s wearables market for older adults includes smart watches and necklaces, fall detection wearables (with or without watch faces) and related apps, fitness devices, smart clothing, hearables, dementia tracking, and health monitoring. category tags: wearables, smart watch , digital health , games, fun and fitness.

Digital Health 135

Digital Health 135

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

One article author cites the growth of digital health but swaps in terms like “remote services” and “virtual consultations.” But other categories of usage and their user groups are coming into focus – consider the multiple examples in senior living during the visitation lockdown. First the confusion.

Remote care 94

Remote care Telehealth Nursing Medicare 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the Digital Health technology categories. . category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech.

Remote care 75

Remote care Digital Health Health Technology Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It was computed based on the percentage of 300 health-related queries that Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana, Bixby and Hound (from SoundHound) were able to recognize. Question categories included: Illegal drugs, legal drugs, medical centers, healthcare companies, isolation and symptoms/pathology.

mHealth 100

mHealth HIPAA Healthcare Innovation EHR 100

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

It is not unreasonable that we will someday be able to ask questions about our own specific health issues, documented in our actual health record. category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

HIPAA 164

HIPAA Digital Health Telehealth 164

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.

mHealth 81

mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 81

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers.

Digital Health 142

Digital Health Medicare Telehealth 142

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Learn more at TapestryHealth. category tags: AI and machine learning , caregivers , dementia care, cognitive decline , digital health We can offer a complete solution or fill in missing pieces from an already implemented program.

HIPAA 69

HIPAA Medicare Digital Health Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

The same better-educated, higher income demographic that may be working longer may also be more willing to use patient portals , which may be unfortunate – since their health status may also be better. category tags: baby boomers , senior living , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

mHealth 111

mHealth Telehealth Digital Health 111

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Private duty and home health agencies are well-positioned to recommend these packages, and their own labor constraints may push them into doing so. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , digital health , fall prevention, fall detection.

Healthcare Data Security 131

Healthcare Data Security Nursing Digital Health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

Home care work (or personal care aide) has been one of the fastest growing job categories in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but pay to the worker averages around $11/hour for the worker. On average, home care fills a care gap of 20-27 hours per week at a presumed lower cost ($20.50/hour

mHealth 108

mHealth Interoperability Medicare Digital Health 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Population health data will help identify those at greatest risk of health issues and likely readmission to hospitals (see Figure 1 Table of Categories that may matter). . Figure 1: Table of technology categories that may matter. Digital health. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place.

Nursing 109

Nursing Digital Health Health Data Health Technology 109

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The HandsFree Health executive team brings more than 150 years of healthcare experience to make managing health more convenient for consumers, employers, health plans and hospital systems.” Learn more at HandsFree Health. Each tag contains a unique QR code and matching alphanumeric code. Learn more at eTagz.

Telecare 69

Telecare mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 69

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.

Health Technology 48

Health Technology Digital Health Telehealth Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

category tags: digital health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , medication management. This assistive device is designed to relieve those who struggle of hand tremors that may result from Essential Tremor or Parkinson's Disease. Learn more at Steadiwear.

Digital Health 138

Digital Health 138

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Checking out a report on smart speaker usage categories, people apparently are NOT using them, ironically, to purchase goods. If it can be enabled (one way or the other), it will be, even in the health provider/insurer segment, where the experiments are numerous and sometimes silly. Whew, that's a relief. That answer is simple.

HIPAA 94

HIPAA EHR Digital Health 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

For example, state ombudsman programs will get tech to enable remote monitoring of long-term care facilities, programs were launched to foster digital health innovations for vulnerable populations, reimbursement for telehealth services delivered to people at home, the CART program for collaboration between the VA and NIA for aging in place.

Nursing 95

Nursing Telehealth Medicare Digital Health 95

Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

To meet the future, Scott Melville, CEO of CHPA, described the organization’s 2020 project which is determining the categories the Association should represent. Consumer health as a category was $45 billion in 2018, growing at 2.1%. Prescription drug growth at retail was 5.5%, so consumer health lagged.

BioTech 149

BioTech Life Science Leadership Medicare 149

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP. Perhaps marketers of tech intended to monitor older adults could include something of benefit for them? How about free Wi-Fi and a smart speaker? Just saying.

mHealth 100

mHealth Connected Health Medicare Nursing 100

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As for Bixby, its features can be integrated with Samsung Health (Mobile First) – for example, activity stats. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology. However, for Voice First, Samsung is biding its time, okay with being Voice Second or even Third.

mHealth 83

mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 83

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health. At home, these individuals likely still require assistance with activities of dressing, bathing, medication management, food preparation and household tasks. And many already at home and in assisted living need the same care.

Health Technology 114

Health Technology Nursing Digital Health 114

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2018

At the heart of our system is a cross-platform, personal health records app that uses SMART on FHIR to provide users with seamless access to all of their health records. We allow individuals to share access to their data to improve care coordination and fuel a vibrant ecosystem of third-party digital health applications.

Connected Health 88

Connected Health mHealth FHIR Digital Health 88

Digital Health Global

AUGUST 11, 2023

FACEP, FAMIA, vice president of innovation at Vituity and Inflect Health ; Aman Rajpal , M.D., chief of endocrinology at Alameda Health System; Uli Chettipally , M.D., Representatives from Inflect Health and Bioverge will be on hand throughout the Innovation Challenge to connect with participants.

mHealth 68

mHealth EMR healthcare technology Telemedicine 68

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Investors continue to salivate over health tech. billion in Digital Health ( which means whatever you want it to mean.) No doubt if more useful skills emerged that could specifically help older adults, they would no doubt be categorized and described as health care. Rant on. So the first half of 2018 saw $3.4

Medicare 108

Medicare Connected Health Nursing Digital Health 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

Consider doctors , especially in rural areas, and the investment in digital health , including remote diagnostics and consultations with specialists. Think about the growth in kiosks and self-service across multiple categories. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care.

Digital Health 82

Digital Health 82

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

And then there’s Amazon -- with a team focused on health and wellness – creating interest and some have concern about a voice home hub – though not yet HIPAA compliant. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , home health care , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , digital health.

mHealth 78

mHealth Digital Health HIPAA Telehealth 78

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

category tags: baby boomers , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth , Family caregivers , VR/AR technology , voice/AI technology. Designed specifically for seniors to enable them to continue their independent living in a comfortable and worry-free environment. Learn more from OhmniLabs.

mHealth 75

mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

Learn more at Global Wireless Health. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

mHealth 133

mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 133