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For older adults, the future of wearables is predictive

Aging in Place Technology Watch

According to Gartner’s January 2021 forecast , this was driven by increased consumer interest in tracking their health status during the pandemic (smart watches) and the growth of remote work (purchases and upgrades to headphones and ear-warn devices). Wearables are increasingly providing health status signals, some useful, some not.

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Five smart clothing technologies for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Vital signs sensors traditionally used for cardiac and respiratory monitoring involve adhesives or tape to keep the sensors in place on the skin. Myant Health. They developed smart underwear that could become one of the most reliable and effective ways to detect and prevent health issues. Sensoria Health. " Learn more.

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RFID: Increasing Patient Safety and Operational Efficiencies

Healthcare IT Today

Imagine undergoing knee replacement surgery, coming into the emergency department for a cardiac arrest, or needing emergent imaging due to a stroke. Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray.

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Remote Care Technologies – What have they been, what will they be?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Thus the FDA has expanded the ability to remotely monitor “clinical electronic thermometers, ECGs, cardiac monitors, ECG software for over-the-counter use, pulse oximeters, respiratory rate or breathing frequency monitors, non-invasive blood pressure monitors and electronic stethoscopes” used in home settings. If not now, when?

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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With Wristband, Google Entering Consumer Health on Its Own Terms

Chilmark Research

It’s not every day that health-related news from Google gets buried, but recent headlines about the Supreme Court upholding a key provision of the Affordable Care Act and the nation’s largest insurers playing matchmaker seem to have relegated Google’s planned health-tracking wristband to the proverbial back page of the Internet.

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HIStalk Interviews Kevin MacDonald, CEO, Kit Check

HIStalk Interviews

Perhaps they’re doing a cardiac surgery case in the OR. We were at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear conference recently. Dispensing cabinet reports can tell you that a nurse dispenses twice as much fentanyl as another nurse, but there might be a good reason for that. Do you have any final thoughts?

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