David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

This shift signals a potential change in the retail healthcare sector as companies strive to gain market dominance in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and home medical services while providing patients with personalized experiences. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Observe that despite the hysteria over Amazon layoffs , voice technology has passed its hype cycle and is now present and utilized in at least 95 million US households. Some other thoughts about 2023 tech trends: Remote (health) care technology should add socialization. Up ahead -- CES 2023. Caregiving technology trends.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? We have reached a tipping point now that Medicare begins to pay for some virtual care services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Has the future arrived in the world of seniors, senior housing, home care? That’s the way it seemed in 2014 to those comments from Witlingo founder, Ahmed Bouzid, interviewing for a job at Amazon – after interacting with the newly invented Echo, he wanted to stand up and start applauding. Is voice first indistinguishable from magic?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Health systems are rapidly transforming their healthcare delivery models with online access and patient engagement tools, remote monitoring and other virtual care modalities. There is unprecedented opportunity for digital health solution providers, arising from the digitalization of core care delivery services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

AI Everywhere, including in senior care. Apple and Google innovations begin to matter – and then there’s Amazon. Meanwhile over at Amazon, multiple new features were announced in 2022, including much silliness (Star Trek trivia and fun sounds in the weather update).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Here are five from recent times: Amazon Care Hub. Care Hub represents the next iteration of smart speakers , which have evolved from just playing music or providing the weather forecast, to enabling home security services and now supporting senior citizens at home. Learn more at Care Hub. Amazon Guard Plus.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Amazon and Older Adults. It’s already been a big year for new Amazon offerings that could benefit older people. This month’s most obvious change was the introduction of Amazon Care Hub , an Alexa app that can be used to help monitor potentially isolated older adults. 2020 Research Reports – A Recap. Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 12, 2022

And home care providers like Comfort Keepers worry about caregivers and senior care recipients. Amazon is offering a discount coupon to buy a new one. . category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smartphones. Carriers just want users to be sort of happy. So why not give them a free mediocre phone?

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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. It continues to be a struggle to fully enable the senior care service industries with high-speed internet capability. Stay tuned!].

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Stanford Medicine offers a Partnership in AI-Assisted Care. AI is a fundamental machine-learning element in voice technology , which is here to stay, despite the noisy racket about Amazon. The cost of long-term care. Ask yourself, what care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption?

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Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Technology solutions augment care – not replacing family or support. Care-related service organizations are taking a closer look at technologies that could help them cope more effectively with staffing shortages and other issues. Voice assistants and hearing aids.

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Medicare Telehealth Digital Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Amazon's Alexa Together was introduced at the very end of 2021 (just over one year ago!) This was one of a series of ‘ambient’ offerings in the market ( Vayyar Care , KamiCare , and Origin Wireless , among others). From the current website, consider the care circle concept – ‘build a team around your loved one.’

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Telehealth 80

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Telehealth Nursing 85

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The pilot study of 16 adults aged 75 or more years and living alone in an independent living community used an Amazon Echo device for eight weeks. SoundMind offers a voice-activated care concierge, along with activities and information on demand and video calling. Learn more. See recent reports: .

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Telehealth 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Medical Guardian already had a PERS watch (from Omate) – which Amazon reviewers did not love ; other than HELP and telling the time, there wasn’t much to it anyway. So the newly developed one has more features – including step-counting, a voice-assist charge warning, and communication (from the watch) with a care circle.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Amazon Alexa: They’re building a health and wellness team , and can list more than 1000 health and wellness skills , though only 13 pop up that are loosely related to older adults. Caring for children is moving right along – how about more for the elderly, who consume so much more healthcare?

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 83

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

For other providers, asking where the nearest urgent care facility is – especially if you’re out of town – may make some sense. Home health care – perhaps the best fit for Voice First. LifePod recently announced a partnership with Commonwealth Care Alliance to provide home health support for medication adherence and care plans.

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mHealth Digital Health HIPAA Telehealth 78

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The latest patient engagement survey from Stericycle Communication Solutions found that nearly half of patients have booked appointments online (48%) or sought care from a non-traditional provider (45%) in the last year, with half of those patients using retail care and one-third using virtual care.

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Medical Billing Mental health EHR Healthcare IT 97

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 01, 2023 News ChatGPT scored 72% in clinical decision accuracy, MGB study shows The large language model's performance was steady across both primary and emergency care, and. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement The process.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

that retained context would enable actual conversations, that profiles about the user would enable care services to offer what was needed, even enabling personal health coaching. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. They believed (hoped?)

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Telehealth 130

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Silver Cloud is a behavioural health company that has developed digital care models equivalent to face-to-face encounters. In the short term, they can exploit synergies between the acquired companies (Conversa chatbots can complement Silver Cloud's virtual care model for behavioural health) to increase organic growth opportunities.

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Digital Health Telehealth Leadership Connected Health 160

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The failure of previous direct-to-consumer approache s underscored the fallacy of inventor-centric thinking that ‘if we create it, they will buy it from us’ or at least find it on Amazon. Personalized interfaces (like Amazon and Netflix) updated in the cloud, are increasingly expected. What they have in common? Entry into the home.

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Interoperability Mobile Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2020

The National Alliance for Caregiving surveyed caregivers about including their use of technology (surprisingly low), and Samsung , Best Buy and Amazon now group offerings that could be helpful for older adults and those who care for them. The smarter home of older adults must help fill care gaps. And then came disaster.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Flic Smart Buttons can now trigger Amazon Alexa commands. Our elderly devices come equipped with heart rate monitors, fall detection and GPS - taking care of our elders has never been easier." category tags: digital health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , smart home , medication management. Learn more at Dance4Healing.

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Digital Health 138

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2018

Which could have been the Google scandal, the Twitter scandal, or even Amazon -- consolidation of industry players and using the data to sell them (or make ads ‘more effective’) or as with Amazon, sell them more stuff. Or when they form into near-monopolies like Amazon. The real scandal? Or auto parts ? .

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Digital Health Health Data 67

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.” “While Walmart and Amazon could be formidable competitors,” Marshal Cohen of NPD Group notes, “this customer wants a company that understands her.” Oh, and health insurance, too, before there was the Affordable Care Act.

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Healthcare Innovation 220

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Sensor-based room activity monitoring (motion, falls) is on the radar of Vayy ar, Amazon and Origin Wireless , with its Wi-Fi based fall detection. category tags: Mobile PERS , PERS , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , wearables, smart watch. The older and frailer need remote monitoring – of multiple types.

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2018

The boom in home care has side effects -- turnover and risk. We want to trust home care workers with aging parents. As a result, the demand for private home care will grow, but so will the costs – especially for finding workers willing to do this difficult work for low pay. Cameras. Voice reminders and voice ‘drop-in.’

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Amazon Echo, Dot Google Assistant , Sir i, Alexa MemoryWell LifePod , SharetheCare , LotsaHelpingHands. Care coordination. The Advanced Stage Of Dementia: In the more advanced stages of dementia, a loved one might need an in-home care worker while you are out or at work. In-home care services. Memory care.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The regulatory change enabled "the use of smartphones, video conferencing platforms such as Zoom, and messaging services like WhatsApp; and the ability to provide care across state lines in 48 states.". category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , senior living , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Telehealth Nursing 124

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Past venture capital investment in home care technology boggles the mind. It seems only yesterday that Tech-Enabled Home Care was published – with that wonderful Forbes graphic “Why VCs Care More About Home Care”. They cared, all right – if that money was an indicator. So much VC money, so little resulting change.

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Medicare 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

All four of these posts are about our technology life, as shoppers in stores as recently as July 1 , our experience with user interfaces that are designed for none , catching up on the hype/hope/fading hope about self-driving cars , and finally, the only thing that can terrorize a company the size of Walmart – Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

During the pandemic, telehealth use grew sharply in the care of older adults, enabled by CMS reimbursement changes that likely will be permanent. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , social isolation , covid-19 , Aging, ageism. Half of those aged 75+ and one-third of the 65+ have hearing loss.

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Health Technology Telehealth Medicare 91

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

” A surprise element here is the Echo tag that came from a pair of gloves I recently purchased. Finally, I added a photo of a worker in an Amazon warehouse working the Prime line, wearing the iconic blue gloves of the pandemic moment. “H” is for hand-washing.

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Public Health Leadership Life Science Nursing 295

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

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. Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring?

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Health Technology Telehealth Nursing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 30, 2019

CES 2018 top competitor battle was between Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. If you have thoughts – please bring them forward about any new offerings in the categories of communication and engagement, home safety and security, health and wellness, learning and contribution, dementia care, home care, and caregiving apps.

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