Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. New progress for dementia care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

” Among the sobering findings, only 29% of nurses surveyed reported their employer had a plan in place to isolate patients suspected of having coronavirus. There’s another article in the magazine on telemedicine strategies that are helping hospitals address COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2019

If you opened any pop culture magazine or newspaper in the past week, you probably saw the results of a PR blitz promoting KonMari, the trademarked name for Marie’s clean-out method. Marie raises a good point: I would translate this as, “health care stakeholders in the U.S. need cognitive therapy.”

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Digital Health Today

MARCH 25, 2020

In this article, we give tribute to Florence Nightingale, known as the founder of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 Profession: Nurse. At age 16, she knew that she wanted to be a nurse, despite her parents’ objections to this “lower-class” work. Joshua Hammer for the Smithsonian Magazine.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Looking five year into the future, 61% of patients saw primary care services being provided at pharmacies, retail clinics and/or pharmacy clinics, and more than half said they’d trust pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide healthcare services and prescriptions if it led to lower costs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. Home Care Magazine: Alexa, Take Care of Me, August 31, 2020. Recent press quotes: New York Times: In Isolating Times, Can Robo-Pets Provide Comfort, September, 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2019

In reading the July/August issue of Eating Well magazine this week, I came across this ad which I scanned for you to see yourself: “We believe in food as medicine.” ” Signed, Kroger Health. Here’s the introductory text in the full-page ad: “As Kroger Health, our vision is to help people live healthier lives.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic increased the use of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) technology, which aggregates patient data such as vital signs , interprets it and provides it to the healthcare team, often a nurse. According to Home Care Magazine , some agencies have already implemented billing private-pay clients for remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Looking five year into the future, 61% of patients saw primary care services being provided at pharmacies, retail clinics and/or pharmacy clinics, and more than half said they’d trust pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide healthcare services and prescriptions if it led to lower costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Practicing empathy can improve patient experience even when it happens someplace consumers don't see directly, says Fortune Magazine Senior Editor at Large Geoff Colvin. Health system leaders value nurse innovation skills -- just not at the leadership level, study says. by HIMSS TV June 12, 2019. by Jeff Lagasse June 10, 2019.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. Home Care Magazine: Alexa, Take Care of Me, August 31, 2020. Recent press quotes: New York Times: In Isolating Times, Can Robo-Pets Provide Comfort, September, 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

” HealthSnap is hiring for nurse care navigator positions, clinical operations managers, and patient enrollment specialists. For a complete list of open positions, please visit healthsnap.io/careers. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Worse, EHRs, with their cumbersome user interfaces and onerous billing requirements, have become a burden to doctors and nurses, contributing to burnout and information overload among physicians, and degrading patient care. “A

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American Well

JULY 28, 2015

Healthcare providers can pay for just the SaaS platform or buy custom hospital carts that let on-site nurses plug patient-monitoring instruments (like compatible examination cameras and stethoscopes) into the carts, which send readings in real time to distant health practitioners. Telemedicine Magazine.

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HIStalk Weekender

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Wired magazine notes that Stanford has enrolled a huge umber of study patients whose heartbeat will be monitored from their Apple Watch, but questions whether screening huge numbers of people who don’t have symptoms will result in better care instead of misdiagnosis, unnecessary testing, and overtreatment. Monday Morning Update 10/29/18.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In a recent interview with Managed Care magazine , Mei Wa Kwong, executive director of the Center for Connected Health Policy, listed training as a major implementation obstacle. But there’s a common blind spot that both vendors and customers sometimes miss. As the saying goes, “Performance is personal before it’s organizational.”

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 6, 2020

Temi the Robot In Hong Kong, 687 miles from Wuhan, robot Temi is the star of Hong Kong Children Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Yan Chai Group, Sheng Kung Hui Group, and more than 50 nursing homes. Upon sensing an "object" reaching 38 Celsius or more, Temi will snap a picture and email it to the nurse.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 28, 2019

Wired magazine covers a University of Colorado ED doctor’s simulation class that addresses the medical realities that will be faced by astronauts on Mars. State records indicate that Elizabeth McCarthy was a certified nursing assistant until 2005.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

I subscribed to Texture even before Apple bought the “Netflix for magazines” company a few weeks back. Its app offers current plus back editions of 200 magazines, allows downloading issues for offline reading, and presents a cool dashboard of new articles that your reading history suggests that you will like, all for $6.95 per month.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

JULY 30, 2019

This article was published in IAOP Pulse magazine. Healthcare has, undoubtedly, made strides toward more consumer-centric, 24/7 optimized experience—from nurse triage to Customer Relationship Management (CRM), case management, and Personal Health Monitoring (PHM) solutions. Pulse Check on Healthcare Delivery Transformation.

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mHealth Insight

APRIL 15, 2020

I was responsible for increasing global production of health workers, including physicians and nurses and for developing and expanding systems that increase health worker retention, productivity, and quality of care. Kate served as the Director of USAID’s CapacityPlus Project, the world’s largest global health workforce program.

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SightCall

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The NCIB points to a 1924 Radio News magazine cover that not only shows a radio in a home, but also depicts a video screen with a doctor talking to the family. Doctors are using telemedicine to monitor vitals after surgery when they cannot be physically present or it was performed off-site in a place such as a nursing home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2023

Their media frequently describes them as if they were a single entity (see Magazine ). Some own their own homes, some live in nursing homes. AARP still hasn’t retired, The organization apparently has no intention to give up on tracking the ‘single segment’ behavior of 108.7 million people aged 50+. Some of the 108.7

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In an article in Wired magazine in 2017, Ada’s app’s diagnoses outshone those of its competitors, Babylon and YourMD, however. That information would then be sent to a doctor or nurse, to speed up the consultation and to prompt clinicians on questions they should ask, or conditions they should consider.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

We are not just patients and caregivers who range from newbie to expert, nor are we are only doctors, nurses and EMTs, nor are we solely focused on research by PhDs, or are we mostly about the business of making and selling things inside the healthcare industry. One quote in a well-known magazine even called him especially powerful.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 14, 2017

Even when she is at school, I am still on the clock, and I communicate with the school nurse throughout the day. When my child is crying herself to sleep because she “hates diabetes,” I can’t exactly leave the room to nurse a headache. A Sun Magazin e piece about the crisis asks, “Who Will Heal the Healers?”

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 27, 2018

The New York Times magazine snarkily rips the fake science, elitist aspirational pretensions, and massive but questionably earned profits of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). A snip: The weirder Goop went, the more its readers rejoiced. Get Involved.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

“Covid-19 exposes America’s racial health gap,” asserts The Economist , the weekly news magazine based in London, UK, in an advanced essay dated 11 April 2020. The subtitle of the piece: “African-Americans appear more vulnerable to the virus.” As African-American patients have been admitted to U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Physicians, nurses and pharmacists are ranked relatively highly in Gallup’s poll on U.S. The healthcare industry, apart from pharma, didn’t fare well this year in the Gallup poll: only 38% of Americans felt positively about healthcare, with a 48% negative response falling 10 percentage points since last year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services. In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In addition to being extremely participatory, perhaps it’s no coincidence that she’s the first woman nurse and the first nurse in the post. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when, in 2016, she was appointed the next Director of America’s National Library of Medicine (NLM).

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