Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit. Healthcare delivery is migrating away from the hospital.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Given the early user base of ChatGPT (optimizing language models for dialogue), 100 million within the first few months, clearly developers, investors, and consumers agree. Beginning a new report -- The Future of AI and Older Adults - thoughts welcome] category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , baby boomers

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

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). category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. More when there’s more.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2023

Though with its initial user calculation at 100 million, it now appears the fastest growing ‘consumer’ application in history. And it is fair to say that the applications of it is making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill.

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Medical Billing 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And regulatory initiatives will help overcome trust issues for consumers. Rather than force a patient to carry their records from care location to location, the standardization and exchange of electronic medical records will see a boost from the use of AI software tools. Payors will reimburse to keep people well.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Self-care and self-service processes and procedures are what consumers demand today – whether it is travel, making medical appointments, or shopping. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , hearing loss , baby boomers. Figure 1 Percentage of adults 45+ who used a hearing aid 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

The annual conference of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) convened this week, and I was grateful to attend and speak on the evolving retail health landscape yesterday. Gary looked back at that era, realizing his father’s understanding of consumer needs at retail. medical system in terms of direct costs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

Some folks think this is a consumer show, but that was the long-ago Consumer Electronics Show. The comprehensive medical equipment enhances vision for individuals with over 20 distinct ocular disorders, frequently enabling users to attain 20/20 vision. Today it is just CES 2024 and it is really a B2B(2B2B) event. Learn more.

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Digital Health 139

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pajama-like clothing is the only way to consume the content vastness of this entirely online Consumer Electronics Show with 500 exhibits, 70,000 registered attendees, and 3 full days of sessions, many pre-recorded, some live. WellBe Medical Alert. Laptops were hot (remember the Ultrabook?) Fast forward to 2021. MightyHealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Clocr is the best choice for secure storage and disbursement of wills, medical proxies, account logins and passwords, financial records, and more.” The HandsFree Health executive team brings more than 150 years of healthcare experience to make managing health more convenient for consumers, employers, health plans and hospital systems.”

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Telecare mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As consumers wear the underwear, sensors in Myant’s SKIIN brand fabric send data back to a corresponding app. The BalanceBelt is a Class 1 Medical Device wearable that uses haptic feedback to help patients suffering from severe balance disorders find their balance and regain their independence. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

This tech market is less about products specifically designed for older adults and more about smarter marketing of many consumer offerings that could be useful to them. We make intelligently designed, fully integrated platforms that move quality-conscious health and wellness consumers closer to compliance and optimal health.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 133

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Chatbots will be trained to respond to an increasingly complex combination of questions that depend on accumulated knowledge about the individual, including family members, medication regimens, and preferred activities. Errors surfacing in the midst of today’s conversational AI hype-e-thon are real.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Is the healthcare consumer ready for voice assistants? Voice First technology – the ability to use natural language to speak to and be spoken to by devices and software – has become at least one mandatory user interface in every business and consumer interaction. More to follow in January 2020]. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The failure of previous direct-to-consumer approaches 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. So mobile health devices, apps or medication reminders may be useful, but touch a tiny aspect of the whole person’s life or health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

One would believe this ubiquity of access might make us hopeful that we are now in the era of tech helping consumers of all ages, no matter what task or level of knowledge. The patient portal(s) one for every insurer and medical practice. Or has the tech user experience also deteriorated?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Much more than mere video chats, telehealth uses intranets and the internet networks to observe, diagnose, initiate or otherwise medically intervene, administer, monitor, record, and/or report on the continuum of care people receive when ill, injured or wanting to stay well. and sending it electronically to another site for later evaluation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The press releases for next week’s 2023 Consumer Electronics Show are stacking up. For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), OTC (Over-the-Counter) Hearing Aids approved for sale direct to consumers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Brownlee, now an SVP at the Lowns Institute and Co-Founder of the Right Care Alliance, pointed out the dangers of super-sized medicine, from unnecessary radiation exposure and hospital infections to medical errors and duplication of services. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

The point of the pixel was to help in tracking consumer responses to advertising. Like many privacy violations and data misuse on the Internet, consumers are usually powerless other than voting with our feet. Their website identifies the top item (16,000 searches, results with ads) as a 'medical alert bracelet'.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The core of a P2P call basically focuses on matching medical necessity criteria with reimbursement criteria. Insurers, usually the reviewer or Medical Director, request P2P calls before determinations because they want additional information or details from the primary care doctor. Who Initiates a Peer-to-Peer Review? A Bad Reputation.

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Primary Care 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

Medication non-adherence has long been a topic of concern, with the cost of poor adherence amounting to $177 billion each year , 50% of treatment failures, and as many as 25,000 deaths. Medication history, health data, prescriptions, vital signs and consumption all presented in one, easy to view, portal page." Not necessarily.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

million medication instructions without. By Bill Siwicki | June 16, 2023 News Community Health Network finds big ROI in consumer-centric technology Since implementing discovery, navigation and merchandising tools, the health system achieved a 300.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

Medication non-adherence has long been a topic of concern, with the cost of poor adherence amounting to $177 billion each year , 50% of treatment failures, and as many as 25,000 deaths. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , social isolation , covid-19 , Aging, ageism. Not necessarily.

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Health Technology Telehealth Medicare 91

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 12, 2018

The FDA wants you to understand that it regulates hearing aids – which it defines as helping the medical condition of hearing loss. The FDA then observes “ sound amplifiers for consumers with no hearing loss who want to make environmental sounds louder for recreational use.“ And Consumer Reports calls them ‘hearing helpers.’

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Medicare 74

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

From remote monitoring to identification of key risk indicators and wellness reporting, Reemo increases engagement and elevates the consumer-centric approach to improved health through proactive support and earlier intervention." Simply place your thumb on the integrated KardiaBand sensor to take a medical-grade EKG in just 30 seconds.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

Though with its initial user calculation at 100 million, it now appears the fastest growing 'consumer' application in history. And it is fair to say that the applications of it are making its way into the world of older adults, this AARP article describes its uses for older adults in generating a letter to contest a medical bill.

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Medical Billing 69

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

This was Nielsen’s early observation for people living in Asia and Europe , a consumer behavior trend that then morphed U.S. For the theme of the page, instead of focusing on the literal latex and medical glove shortage, I used images from vintage fashion papers when gloves were de rigueur for both women and men.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Haleon is using the the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide more detailed labels on more than 1,500 of its consumer health products.

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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. So mobile health devices, apps or medication reminders may be useful, but touch a tiny aspect of the whole person’s life or health.

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Interoperability Mobile Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

The hype capitalizes on the recent CES with a laundry list of tech offerings that could help with fears -- like sensors, medication management, motion sensors, and smart watches to mitigate fear of falling. Free-lance writers follow up with an Aging in Place story citing the survey. Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

So how safe are self-driving cars for us, those pesky consumers who are also the victims of this tech for tech's sake ? Digital health tech for providers and consumers, current status is bleak. As for consumers, 82% do not use telehealth, explaining why patient depart hospitals with CDs of the medical record.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 7, 2019

Did something happen recently propelling sales up 51% that pushed consumers out the door to buy a wearable, like a fitness band or a smartwatch? As note in the link, medications can impact heart rate, and for those starting out, lower end of the range is better. How do wearables contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

It capitalizes on the recent CES with a laundry list of tech offerings that could help with fears -- like sensors, medication management, motion sensors and smart watches to mitigate fear of falling. Free-lance writers follow up with an Aging in Place story citing the survey. Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Include the larger population of service providers, not just its own members, in its 'consumer' online search for services , for another. In addition, Sofi will provide morning greetings, medication s and family communication." category tags: senior living , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Learn more at SofiHub. SoundMindInc.

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