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Getting Older Adults to Tech Parity in 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This followed late-year 2020 activity, including the $10 million in funding for tech training company GetSetUp and the $18 million of funding for Papa from Comcast Ventures to combat social isolation in older adults and launch tech-enabled health offering called Papa Health. category tags: computers, internet and social networking.

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Hearing aid pricing and weak insurance – older adults lose out

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This is in an era where hearing aids have evolved to incorporate embedded AI, fall detection, direct connections for phone calls, and numerous other features and functions. The position needs a 4-year doctor degree which can follow any bachelors undergraduate education. They’ are audiologists.

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Healthcare Experts in Quebec Ask “Who Chooses How Much of What?”

Society for Participatory Medicine

Last Thursday, August 17, at the convention center in Quebec City, more than 400 doctors, patients, clinicians, caregivers and policy makers from around the globe met for an international conference on the topic of overdiagnosis in medicine, or as the event banners said: “ Preventing Overdiagnosis: Winding Back The Harms of Too Much Medicine.”

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.