Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission is so freaked out, they are offering a $25K prize , a “ call-to-action to innovators to develop solutions that protect consumers from voice cloning harms. ” category tags: Scams -- all types , social media , computers, broadband, and social networking , AgeTech The so-called ‘regulation’ of AI is a dream.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 29, 2023

Some of the most common reasons include: Privacy concerns: Many people were concerned about the privacy implications of Google Glass. However, the device also faced a number of challenges, including privacy concerns, high price, and limited functionality. In 2015, Google discontinued the consumer version of Google Glass.

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Nursing 81

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). The future – monitoring of change, predictive of decline, raising privacy issues.

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Connected Health Health Data 144

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One might well argue that Amazon has and will continue to have a major impact on the quality of life for older adults (assuming senior privacy concerns and technology barriers to adoption are overcome – more on that another time): Offered low-price Voice First devices.

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HIPAA Digital Health Telehealth 164

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Privacy and security features will be built into design of software and websites. 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. It hasn’t happened yet. Upgrades must be invisible or painless.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Has the future arrived for the technologists who invented Voice First and the broad market of consumers who bought and benefited, from the early days? As for privacy and security concerns? category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Is voice first indistinguishable from magic?

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Telehealth 158

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

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. Scott rhetorically asked.

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BioTech Life Science Leadership Medicare 149

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. a) Find your phone, b) accept the text message, c) copy the ‘we will never share your information with others’ privacy token into the appropriate location on the screen. Feeling safe and protected.

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Medical Billing 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

At the end of April, ninety million US adults were estimated to own smart speakers , one-third of consumers. Typically, as in this podcast from ' This Week in Voice' about Aging in Place, one hears the usual concerns about security and privacy, no doubt because older people have expressed those concerns. million.

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Remote care Telehealth Patient Experience Nursing 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Privacy and security features will be built into design of software and websites. 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. Technologies must be well-supported and intuitive.

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Interoperability Mobile Health 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

At the same time, the technology market presents growing complexity, worsening privacy issues, and interoperability limitations, while not effectively lowering the cost of access or the price of useful devices. Seniors are working longer. At 65, older adults have longer life expectancy than previous generations.

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mHealth Interoperability Medicare Digital Health 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

The irony, the irony – everyone saw Europe’s data privacy initiatives. These work without the need to download and upgrade on Patch Tuesday , though privacy improvements are the next big technology hurdle. . Identity theft – costing consumers $16 billion in 2016. Yet consumers trust Amazon, sellers not so much.

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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. category tags: Home Care , Mobile PERS , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , AI , social media.

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Connected Care Remote care 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

For consumers and professionals, consider the role of: Amplified TV Sound, amplified phones, and visual indicators. Consumer Reports recently updated its recommendations for improving TV sound , for those with some hearing loss. Anyone can give self-testing a try in the privacy of their own home.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

And Apple trumpets the 'privacy' it offers by not selling the data of you. Is the problem for consumers just that the ads are shown? category tags: computers, internet and social networking , cell phones, smartphones. Mull over these two worlds – and the Netflix subscription model starts to appeal. Like Google.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

At the end of April, ninety million US adults were estimated to own smart speakers , one-third of consumers. Typically, as in this podcast from ' This Week in ' about Aging in Place, one hears the concerns about security and privacy, no doubt because older people have expressed those concerns. What’s holding the others back?

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Remote care Telehealth 75

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Congress, government agencies, presidential candidates, consumers and the industry itself talk about the need to lower healthcare costs, but what does this entail? " News. Information blocking rules: Health industry groups call for Congressional oversight. by Mike Miliard September 23, 2019.

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Healthcare IT Meaningful Use EHR Interoperability 83

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Eight years ago there were no commercially available consumer tablets. Cost of higher speed Internet connection; privacy concerns. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place. (See Figure 2 Centenarian Morning in the Life). Centenarians of the future will benefit from technology (r)evolution. Social, Learning.

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Nursing Digital Health Health Data Health Technology 109

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The visibility of Facebook management issues and Google competitive quagmire may actually be good for consumers. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , CES 2019. According to eMarketer, though, baby boomers are still big users – of the 76.4 million of them, 31.9 Read more.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 77

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Not easy in 2011, but standard operating procedure today, along with privacy concerns and transformation (not necessarily with our permission) of user preferences into data, along with product and service recommendations. category tags: Aging technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , smartphones, cell phones.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 27, 2015

This diagram and definitions from the FHIR specification Where: The consumer that is using a healthcare related system The client application the user is using (application, mobile app, website, etc.) This triggers the Privacy and Security office working with the Clinical Safety office to investigate if it was appropriate use of Break-Glass.

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FHIR 40

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Healthcare enterprises that rapidly built up virtual care through ready-to-deploy consumer technologies are looking closely at the suitability of the platforms for enterprise-level scaling. I discuss a few of these and their potential impact on healthcare consumer experiences. The future of telehealth seems assured.

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Telehealth Digital Health Interoperability Public Health 213

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Too time-consuming? But asking us to opt out of a privacy feature (versus opt in) which shares your network with your neighbors? Just having a company say that it has taken steps to preserve user privacy – should we believe them? category tags: computers, internet and social networking , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Maria Gil, Data-Tech-AI Partner, Consumer and Healthcare at Genpact , says that the incorporation of SDoH into Star ratings , along with the advent of more powerful analytics and AI, have made a noticeable impact on clinical sites, causing them to ramp up their collection and use of SDoH. ” (pages 21-22).

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Public Health HIE Medicare Health IT 108

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

By then, thorny questions about privacy, personalization, and patient-doctor voice communication will be closer to resolution. In September, the Voice Interoperability Initiative was announced, with the intent of enabling consumers to interact with multiple voice services from a single device.

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Interoperability mHealth HIPAA Digital Health 87

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Some industries and consumers (think home care) were not ready for 'if we build it, they will come'. Are privacy concerns discussed? . category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Home Care. 6) Focus on integrity, seek market input -- it's not about your grandmother! 9) PR team, this means you.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 2, 2018

And don't be like the abruptly defunct and long-evaporated WellCore , a presumably consumer-oriented technology that could be pre-ordered before the bugs were debugged -- but launched at a long-ago CES with great fanfare. Is your offering better or worse at protecting user privacy and data your firm needs to collect?

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