Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

Caspar's generative AI has access to 24/7 in-home data with which it builds a model for minute-by-minute behavioral predictions about residents, summarized in the form of alerts and observations for nurses and caregivers." integrates ChatGPT into its care app. " Learn more at Essence Smart Care.

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Remote care Nursing HIPAA 149

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The promoters of the standard, intended to make the vision of the smart home, with easily connected devices, a reality. Will that make it easier to use sensors, and therefore make it more appealing? Or that home care organizations could continue to turn down contracts due to lack of workers to fill them.

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Healthcare Data Security Nursing Digital Health 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As an aging population grows, the supporting labor force for aging services, both in communities and for in-home care, simply isn’t there, lured away by better pay across multiple sectors. category tags: AI and machine learning , hearables/hearing technology , fall prevention, fall detection , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

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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Telemedicine Leadership Mental health Medicare 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Moving forward, this type of technology, often AI-enabled, is increasingly likely to be part of offerings from health insurers to improve subscriber engagement and wellbeing of health plan participants, enabling them to remain at home (and out of the hospital). Iamfine daily automated calls. Learn more at GrandPad.

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Nursing 62

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.”

Telehealth 62

Telehealth 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. category tags: AI and machine learning , Family caregivers , Home Care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Karie provides an automated solution to the common, costly, but completely preventable problem of poor medication adherence for elderly patients living alone. category tags: digital health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , medication management. Learn more at Steadiwear.

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Digital Health 138

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2022

Fairly new at the time, a few senior living organizations embraced it for its home automation potential, possibility of concierge services -- turn on the lights! The generally accepted view was that this technology was going to be “Easy, Cheap, Useful, Smart, and Connected (home automation that just works).”

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Leadership Telehealth Health IT 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 11, 2018

The result is a better caregiver, a better home care agency and a better way to care. Today CareAcademy provides home care agencies with a best in class online education platform.” Senior care solutions become more intelligent and supportive by understanding away, at home, asleep or awake states of older adults." CogniZance.

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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. As he noted, despite the initiatives to automate health record data exchanges across platforms, fax still dominates – and needs to access and deliver information securely. Mcare Home Health Hub. Learn more.

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Telehealth mHealth EHR Nursing 146

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

Today, perhaps due to pending boomer bulge, innovators and their funders may be having a somewhat easier time, at least in some market categories – health, home care, transportation come to mind. A 24/7 monitoring service similar to home monitoring is also available. Learn more at Oticon. Currently expanding throughout Florida."

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mHealth Mobile Health Patient Experience Nursing 111

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

The use of automated pill packaging and pre-filling at the pharmacy for patients to help them with compliance, especially during Covid-19. It seems reasonable that a device correctly pre-loaded with doses either at the pharmacy, by a home health worker or a nurse in senior living would improve accuracy of dosages.

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HIPAA Nursing Health Data 89

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 9, 2018

We could start with Twitter, which is deleting millions of bots, trolls, and other fake accounts (often with automated software generating hundreds of tweets per day). First click ‘No’ on whether to subscribe to a site for home health agencies , then study the ring of event ads. The business model of the Internet is crushing us.

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

Do they transition into home care, home health care, or senior living, which can’t find enough workers? Who really thinks big about the impact of automation on a workforce or online purchasing on a retail economy ? category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , seniors and aging policy , Aging.

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Public Health 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When 60% of homes in the US have smart speakers of some type, talking to tech is here to stay. And for those a physical disability or those with low or no vision, consider the independence enabled by AI-enabled commands to smart home technology. category tags: AI and machine learning , Voice/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home.

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Nursing 136

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Inspired by the success of Singapore and South Korea, contact tracing applications on Bluetooth-enabled devices have been positioned as an effective means to track and trace infections to reduce the spread of COVID-19 ( "contact tracers" are also among the hottest job categories in today's labor market).

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Telehealth Digital Health Interoperability Public Health 213

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 9, 2018

At the top of the retrieved page – an ad for ClearCare to help you ‘improve client and employee management’ – sounds like paid (agency) home care. Parks Associates provided 6 broad categories and examples in the 2016 Caregiving Innovation Frontiers report – the broadest categorization and definition of ‘care and caregiving.’

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories. In subsequent posts, others will be noted from the exhibit hall books, but for now, here are 10 other new companies/new offerings in alphabetical order from CES 2019 with content from the press releases/sites of the companies: CarePredict Home. Learn more at Essence.

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Digital Health 107

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. Start with the home page that has modest and friendly graphics and images (not a ransom note with 27 different font size and colors) to identify what the product or service does or is. What’s that mean?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today or soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. Start with the home page that has modest and friendly graphics and images (not a ransom note with 27 different font size and colors) to identify what the product or service does or is. What’s that mean?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Aiva uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and other smart speakers to not only engage and empower patients and seniors, but also to connect them more closely to their caregivers. EchoCare Technologies has a radar-based, non-wearable, elderly-care, home monitoring system that automatically alerts safety and emergency situations.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth Health IT 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories. In subsequent posts, others will be noted from the exhibit hall books, but for now, here are 10 other new companies/new offerings in alphabetical order from CES 2019 with content from their own press releases/sites: CarePredict Home. Learn more at Care Predict.

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Digital Health 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2018

share by then – and Google Home-related will rise to 30%. Smart speakers are hardware devices (like the Echo or Google Home) that run software (like Alexa or Google). Home automation, aka Smart Homes , same. Some worry about the loss of privacy from always-listening devices in the home. Does this matter?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2018

The organization is clearly committed to using Voice First interfaces for patients, for internal questions (“Who is the Charge Nurse on 7 South?”), for hands-free operating room checklists, for post-discharge guidance and for home health (100,000 interactions to date). category tags: Voice First/AI technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Nursing 63

Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We said that we knew we would hit a home run when interested – no, excited – people come on board, work with us, and carry the project to a sustainable conclusion. When will I be able to get a test that I can do at home? What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. These are general categories.

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Nursing 52