Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

The test is called the Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score. In plain language, Dr. Kathy Albain of Loyola, one of the thirty researchers who worked on the study, said , “The study should have a huge impact on doctors and patients. It’s not enough to open up doctors notes to patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

Available nationwide, the application, which features an intuitive interface, allows users to listen while reading captions of everything that is said during phone calls. Now, iPhone users can place and receive captioned phone calls from just about anywhere. category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Integrating fall detection with 24x7 call centers is increasingly expected and offered. . The 2021 Stanford Apple Watch Frailty study verified that it is possible to remotely detect changes that can predict ‘frailty.’ Some say that tomorrow’s view will make the annual doctor visit irrelevant and even misleading.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

Doctors worry about the elimination of whole specialties like radiology and educators are in a tizzy trying to determine the real author of student projects. Older adults may be less embarrassed talking to a chatbot about tech uncertainty than calling up their long-distance grandson.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Doctors and nurses are burning out, especially in the ER. It is dumb not to report complaints about misleading advertising, and so older consumers are doing just that , with 74% reporting unsolicited calls among other inappropriate marketing messages. Trends worth noting about care work. You know the statistics and they are alarming.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

One wonders what insider called the New York Times with this info?) Consider these answers and wonder how we got here – that the first ad is from Lilly, with a vested interest in the definition as well as the searcher contacting a doctor. category tags: AI and machine learning. Note their work on developing an Alzheimer’s drug.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The original Lifeline business was a pioneer of this market segment, building up a business that included doctor-referral, a senior-aware trained call center and multiple channel partners, including the home security segment. category tags: PERS , Mobile PERS , wearables, smart watch , fall prevention, fall detection.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Consider the scenario noted here which sounds helpful: “a patient with diabetes wouldn’t have to postpone a regular follow-up visit with the doctor to keep safe — he or she could do it via Skype.” is tracking technology innovations in the time of Covid-19 , noting the categories of innovation and the open calls for help in that category.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Caregivers were increasingly using technology to help them manage care (although they still objected to being called caregivers). Their expressed concerns were nearly identical to those noted in 2008 -- more than half did not know if their doctor offered and nearly half worried whether the technology would work. The jury is still out.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This elevates Hint from being a trusted enrollment, membership management, and billing platform, to a comprehensive solution that provides everything a DPC doctor needs in one innovative platform. DPC is medicine how it used to be, just doctor and patient. The existing U.S. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021. About Hint Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A hot topic now – crossing the so-called ‘Digital Divide’. category tags: computers, internet and social networking , social isolation , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health. It’s ironic – the topic has been under discussion foreve r. That was pre-pandemic of course. In 2020, the divide looks like a chasm, depending on how it is viewed.

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mHealth Watch

JULY 7, 2023

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. Depending on whether the feature is available and also turned on, the device may place a call to emergency services. Wearables can notify emergency professionals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

"For the current generation of youth, they do not like to make phone calls. “They proposed creating a virtual patient-centered medical home – what we call the Virtual PCMH, or V-PCMH – for the patient/family and their healthcare team. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

That created revenue growth for Apple, but also more opportunity for Apple watch-based competitors like Fall Call Solutions. Meanwhile, as a result of Apple’s more senior-capable offering, emergency watches (PERS) with call center integration, like MobileHelp and UnaliWear, got a boost. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"Now, our surgeons will respond to all their patient messages while they're on call, as opposed to the patients needing to come to the ER or urgent care to be seen by an entirely different care team." " Andrew Lovewell, The Surgical Center at Columbia Orthopaedic Group. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When they do call their provider, they want the service to be quick, smooth, and beneficial. In Medical Economics’ 2022 annual survey , providers said increased competition is now one of their top challenges, namely because today’s patients are increasingly willing, for reasons of convenience, to switch doctors. HIPAA regulations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Patients usually had to travel to their doctor's office, and offices had to own and maintain video and audio technology. What do you think will happen with telemedicine in 2022?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

Let’s remember the so-called problem being hustled into the market -- to reduce deaths from auto accidents. The inability to leave (or de-activate) Facebook following the so-called scandal has been as much about what others do -- or don’t. Ask yourself – how would you know? What apps? Oh, well, Facebook won’t say.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

Following cancellation, phone calls replaced nearly all 10 scheduled in-person meetings. He talked about the capability to use cloud faxing for providers who lack an EHR system, enabling doctors to prescribe, query the network and download patient records. In addition, HIMSS is in the process of arranging a digital version of HIMSS.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

Let’s remember the so-called problem being hustled into the market -- to reduce deaths from auto accidents. As Dr. Nazir notes, it’s not just doctors who can be frustrated by over-emphasis on technology. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , voice/AI technology , senior living , robotics. How comforting.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 22, 2018

The insights quoted here could be generalized, not just to Skilled Nursing Facilities, but to all types of care delivery – and are particularly notable in the context of last week’s New York Times article: " How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers.” What are the right treatment options? How can they be more individualized?

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: As experience and service become mantras in health care @ retail, it’s useful to call out a recent announcement from VSP, among the largest eyecare insurance providers. ” Check out the lower right portion of the website snippet: “We’ve got an eye for each of yours…The Doctor Connection.”

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

Consider doctors , especially in rural areas, and the investment in digital health , including remote diagnostics and consultations with specialists. Or did Amazon (and Google) solve that with its line of Echo devices, reminders, notifications, and drop-in calls? For such an innovative society, so far there are no good ideas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

” Crotty and his team also were concerned from a health equity perspective that they would not be able to reach all patients, so they maintained telephone-based calls, as well as adopting other video platforms that made the connections easier. ” Third, there is much less of a buffer when a patient or a doctor is running late.

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GlobalMed

MAY 28, 2019

When a medical emergency hits – say, a car accident or a heart attack – no one’s first concern should be about the price tag attached to the ambulance or medical air transport. Instead, they call an Uber or ask a family member to come home from work and drive them to the hospital. percent of their patients – and of the remaining 6.8

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Insulin Nation

JUNE 13, 2017

In the same presentation, another researcher described how the price of insulin has skyrocketed in recent years and that incremental improvements in insulin don’t justify their increased price tag. There was also a personal confession of how easy it is to be swayed by the drug company money that gets thrown at doctors. Zero f s given.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 18, 2017

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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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

All she had to do was make a call from her living room couch, answer a few screening questions, and wait for a doctor to call her back. “About every week or two, we get a call about a kid in a rural ER who the doctor is thinking about transferring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

Paul Szotek of the Indiana Hernia Center in Carmel, Indiana, has some very strong feelings about what he calls the loss of the doctor-patient relationship. As the employed model has grown, physicians have increasingly lost autonomy to deliver care to their patients in a manner that optimizes the doctor-patient relationship, he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

At the end of the appointment, the patient's final comment stuck with me for weeks to come: "How come you can't call me with this result?" I thought to myself, I could literally call all my patients for follow ups, but then I wouldn't really need to work in a clinic and what type of practice would that be?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

With integration of a healthcare system also comes the challenge of overcoming the old-school healthcare siloes where there exists a boundary between healthcare specialties, and doctors and nurses just to name a few. Being part of an integrated system: King’s plays its role.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

More than video conducts with doctors, it’s using Internet and intranet technologies to facilitate many medical activities associated with healthcare and wellness of the body and mind. Region Tag: Global Edition. At first blush some might think discussing telehealth is not logical here. But what is telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You want the intimacy, you want the holistic understanding, you want the history, you want the "you know me" kind of feeling that you got from the kind of doctors that we had maybe 100 years ago. " Call that the last-mile integration, or whatever else you want to call it, but it shouldn't be an either-or.

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