Digital Health Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

The round brings DexCare’s total funding to $146M as it looks to help health systems attract new patients, capture more downstream revenue, and control costs to fuel growth. The Takeaway Although the “digital front door” tag might be overplayed, DexCare’s platform really lives up to the title.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the so-called digital health technology categories. . Fifty-three million Americans are providing care to someone with health or functional needs – in short, they are family caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

In other wrap-up surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. Touchpoints Digital Health wearable. " In 2023, the company's first international destination will be the United States, a country with a mature population." Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

But there’s a problem: AARP’s tech trends survey from 2024 and their 2023 guidance from AARP on inclusive design practices, it’s clear and as the AARP report notes, “No one prefers badly designed, over-complicated products.” Is the user experience deteriorating? Tech user experience experts focus on everyone except older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. . Older people, consumers of a significant portion of healthcare spending, will need and use many of the Digital Health technology categories. .

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Exec Summary: The pain management market is experiencing exciting growth, driven by several key trends: Increased Demand: Chronic pain prevalence: Chronic pain affects a significant portion of the population, with an aging demographic further increasing demand. Subscribe Today!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This remains true, said researchers from the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, even after adjusting for age, comorbidities and preferred language. "While telehealth has many benefits, especially during a global pandemic, it may create and/or exacerbate health disparities," wrote the research team.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today's emerging trends are showing that: Older adults live and work longer. The remainder will remain longer in their own homes, ‘aging in place’ and utilizing services like home care and home health care. Older adults are willing to interact differently with health providers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

But this is January, 2021, in the time of Covid-19 and the time of the all digital Consumer Electronics Show -- this time with at least 70,000 online attendees from around the world and the tech industry -- and so new companies are surfacing with technologies that will generate interest and even excitement during 2021.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In other wrap-up non-surprises, entrepreneurs are shifting to the enterprise for funding, or that the digital health user experience is key to senior uptake. category tags: AI and machine learning , AgeTech , IoT , Technology - AARP We are not surprised at any of the barriers and pre-requisites we face to log on.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

Digital Health is in its bubble of $8.1 Imagine three overlapping ovals – a Venn diagram of markets – Active Aging , Caregiving , Digital Health – why is it that VCs mostly look the other way when anything with the word ‘aging’ surfaces, but jump ( possibly mistakenly ) when these other categories are mentioned?

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Digital Health 85

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. health citizens into hygiene shoppers. “H” is for hand-washing. “I” is for Italy.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

Aloe Care is delivering the world's first voice-activated, in-home digital care assistant for older adults. Learn more at Aloe Care Health. Handsfree Health. HandsFree Health™ is committed to creating health and wellness platforms that keep you and your loved ones on track to good health. EnvoyatHome.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 28, 2020

For example, state ombudsman programs will get tech to enable remote monitoring of long-term care facilities, programs were launched to foster digital health innovations for vulnerable populations, reimbursement for telehealth services delivered to people at home, the CART program for collaboration between the VA and NIA for aging in place.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2021

Looking out toward the future – what trends matter most? Consider a few issues for starters: chronic health conditions, mobility limitations, stairs, snow/ice, driving, dangerous hills for walking, cognitive issues, and social isolation. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , healthcare , digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2009, there were specialized email services that converted an online message into paper form; WiFi in seniors’ homes or senior living residences was rare; the mobile PERS offerings were just a concept; the iPad had not been announced; Digital Health was three years away; and Voice First offerings would not appear for another five years.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

Digital health tech for providers and consumers, current status is bleak. And the adoption of digital health by providers – 44 % non-adoption in hospitals. Could it be because there is no interoperability between health systems used by doctors and multiple hospital systems? Does it matter who deletes?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Cathedral Hill will debut the new smart devices to be ready for its first residents this spring with the help of Aiva Health, the leading virtual assistance platform for healthcare and senior living. CareMerge Voice Trends. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 6, 2020

As with other market segments, the hearing health market saw the opportunity to promote their teleaudiology (or tele-audiology ) services for those who already own telehealth-capable hearing aids that may need adjustment. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , medication management , social isolation , covid-19 , Aging, ageism.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 24, 2019

Some describe this trend of developing software for voice-enabled device user interfaces as Voice First. Voice First in health -- examples proliferate – is this a fad, or is there staying power? Why tackle the topic of voice, health, and well-being? Speech recognition, for example, will penetrate 80% of mobile devices by 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

The new trend – tech/services for older adults, not just tech. Today, perhaps due to pending boomer bulge, innovators and their funders may be having a somewhat easier time, at least in some market categories – health, home care, transportation come to mind. ReemoHealth Remote Mobile Health Platform. Learn more at Reemo Health.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 5, 2023

Exec Summary: Allurion, a weight loss company that makes a swallowable gastric balloon, went public this week on August 2, 2023 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Compute Health. Compute Health is a blank-check company that was formed to acquire a health care technology business.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Most because it was difficult to absorb and rationalize so much tech news, hype, booths and convention center halls at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2019 – where a step counter status update may have been the most satisfying experience of all at the end of the day. and Bret Kinsella , is heating up.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MARCH 7, 2014

Kaiser Permanente is on the ground and will be publishing a digital newsroom highlighting social content and the Twitter conversation from SXSW. The pair will be highlighting digital trends such as wearable devices, mobile health and biometrics — as well as what’s on the health horizon.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. " MARKETPLACE.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Happy New Year – and onward to 2020, the publication of the now-completed Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 on Monday, January 6 th , and so many more (and counted) CES steps -- more wearables, virtual experiences, smart and not-so-smart speakers. But I am sure the blaring will begin at the door. Here are the most read blog posts from 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. Choose the right device to get reliable patient data and reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Waracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The IoMT ( Internet of Medical Things ) enables these devices to collect, interpret and disseminate health data via the cloud and it’s predicted that within the next ten years the number of connected medical devices across the world could exceed 50 billion. Today we’re exploring how the IoMT is transforming healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

Angela Jones Angela Jones is a program manager in digital health transformation at Booz Allen Hamilton. Biometric sensors can look at trends instead of a single measurement in time, while patient friendly applications can be used for medication reminders or to schedule follow-up appointments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Based on the comments from the healthcare keynotes and from the digital health + medtech entrepreneurs roaming the aisles of the exhibit hall – there are encouraging signs that healthcare may weather the economic downturn better than other industries. Digital Transformation Must Align with Quadruple Aim.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve crafted the ultimate fall detection and health monitoring system bundle of the most advanced technologies into our all-in-one patent-pending app. Get real-time notifications and alerts about the health and safety of seniors or disabled family members living independently and peace of mind knowing that help is on the way.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything and Amazon voice devices everywhere. Learn more at Philips. Welt Wellness Belt.

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