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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health. Best Buy Health is working with over two dozen health systems in the U.S. Best Buy Health is working with over two dozen health systems in the U.S.

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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring. You should be able to obtain a cheap package, perhaps subsidized if needed. In what year?

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AARP 2024 Tech Survey: Change Continues to Outpace Older Adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And so the growth in smartphone ownership is led by older adults And it’s pretty tough to buy a ‘dumb TV’ these days even if you wanted one, though it’s feasible. Growth is not the same as adoption. Has someone written the report “The Best Smart Home Offerings for Solo Agers”?

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VIVE and HIMSS -- payers, providers, tech -- little about older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

HIMSS this week – the website says it best: Now HIMSS. A few organizations at these events, like AARP (VIVE) and Best Buy Health (HIMSS), clearly have a vested interest in the health status and care of aging adults. Aging and older adults are low profile at both events.

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The care future for older adults needs housing and tech support

Aging in Place Technology Watch

By now, all of these should be integrated into a low-cost platform, as a plug-in suite sold by Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart or Home Depot, spanning broadband access, lighting, sound, temperature control, health and safety status monitoring. You should be able to obtain a cheap package, perhaps subsidized if needed. In what year?

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Four technology (health and aging) blog posts from August 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

But there were issues, disruptions and sizable opportunities worth noting in August, the biggest one was Best Buy's purchase of GreatCall, just six weeks after Amazon acquired PillPack , the latest big company acquisition -- part of a to-be-continued series important to families and providers of care to seniors. Read more here.

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The technology category that cannot be spoken aloud – serving older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Best Buy makes its largest acquisition ever when it acquires GreatCall. Even Best Buy, which knows exactly what it acquired, a call center and services and products for older adults, referred to GreatCall as a leading ‘connected health services provider.’ They were quite specific about the use case. Pretty wimpy.

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