Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Long-term care insurance: If you have long-term care insurance, it may cover some or all of the costs of a nursing home. Medicaid: Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for people with low income and assets. category tags: AI and machine learning.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Consider the high price (upwards of $6000 per pair), limited insurance company assistance, and much individual isolation, misery, and family frustration. If this were any other health innovation, it would have been matched to need years ago. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , hearing loss , baby boomers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2024

Two weeks ago, VIVE in Los Angeles , "The Only Digital Health Event Focused on You" was attended by 8000 people there to hear 300 speakers on topics of interest to payers, providers, and those interested in consumer health. Consider the recent big healthcare events. HIMSS this week – the website says it best: Now HIMSS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M 9amHealth , the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

And depending on health, wealth or financial planning, many older adults will one day move to nursing homes, where the worker pool matches that in the other care services. Each part of the continuum wants to use technology to deliver better, more efficient, and health-aware care. Learn more at FamilyFirst.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Necessity will drive AI usage in care work across all five care types (healthcare, home health care, home care, senior living, and Skilled Nursing Facilities). Population health will transform into a population of one. Avatars are emerging built on health protocols and voluminous data sets.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Louisville ownership has transformed both its members and sponsorship -- senior living, skilled nursing, healthcare, insurers. Sometimes it’s become expensive to the payers and insurance companies. category tags: senior living , healthcare , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of. The office.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). Most insurance plans cover at least a portion of the cost for medical equipment and supplies, so why pay entirely out of pocket?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. How do tech firms and insurers overcome this reluctance? What is the point of sneering at older people? With persuasion? Just saying.

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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

MARCH 28, 2024

Restaurants and health facility check-in are but two examples. The patient portal(s) one for every insurer and medical practice. So now many health systems are charging for use of online portals that provide a way to engage with the physician, for example, responding to messages in MyChart , the EPIC software portal.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In addition to low pay and benefits, non-medical and home health jobs can be lonely, with no onsite supervision or peer relationships. Care may be constrained to a few hours per day, just three times per week, whether by insurance reimbursement rates or cost to families – private pay full-time care is not viable.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s at the point where the surgeon general recently declared it to be a serious health risk : " 29% increased risk of heart disease, a 32% increased risk of stroke, and a 50% increased risk of developing dementia for older adults. Our virtual companions extend the reach of both the provider and health plan into the home. CareAngel. "AI

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

Papa’s “Family on Demand” expanded services to enterprises and insurance reimbursement -- Papa Pals help seniors with tasks that might fall to family members or home care workers -- providing new sources for ‘care in the home’ or home care.Now home care must double down on tech-enabled reinvention. That is a sign. More when there is more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Home health care providers currently report turning away over 25% of referred patients due to staff shortages.” Insurers see the opportunity in care in the home. Optum, a division of United Health Group , has launched a $3.3 Optum, a division of United Health Group , has launched a $3.3

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Imagine if that same theory could be applied to young people on their first job choosing between health plan choices offered by their employer. And then, as with Medicare advertising, let's see how we insurers and brokers can maximize the profitability of our relationship. Plenty of websites offer advice for this important decision.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Independa. "T he Independa Health Hub enables LG smart TVs to offer an intuitive interface for users to initiate a video chat with a caregiver or access a menu of relevant professional services. category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking. Learn more at Caavo. Learn more at Independa.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

Who is ‘they’, how much can they ‘get’, and is there insurance that pays for them? AARP recently surveyed the health impact (that’s good), but not the cost of correcting hearing loss. But the FDA is doing nothing about insurance coverage of hearing aids. There are few surveys (Pew has nothing!).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This past week, Cambia Health released a survey of caregivers, 64% of surveyed caregivers use at least one digital tool to help them with caregiving. The Apple Watch Series 4 disrupted the senior wearables market with its built-in ECG and fall detection, as well as Apple’s partnership with insurers.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Stories about three fashion brands have me thinking about women and their health economics. I first read about Universal Thread on The Mighty website , which is a community of over 1 million people interested in connecting on health and disabilities. Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.”

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Healthcare Innovation 220

Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Louisville ownership has transformed both its members and sponsorship -- senior living, skilled nursing, healthcare, insurers. announces the first-of-its-kind smart technology for the millions of people providing personal care to family members, especially those facing health challenges. Nomo International, Inc.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

BellPal , Freedom Guardian , Bay Alarm Medical , UnaliWear , HandsFree Health , FallCall Lite (Apple) – connect to a required response center. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , AI , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , Mobile PERS. Voice first technology – in everything.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Many other changes have been put in place, eliminating co-pays, adding coverage for telehealth for those without insurance, and many others many of them state-by-state (see Florida and California , for example). category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. If not now, when?

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David Chou

MARCH 25, 2023

The American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation recently released a report forecasting the revolutionary changes that retail firms and tech giants will bring to healthcare delivery in 2023 and beyond. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 Pharmacy As The Money Maker CVS has over 10,000 retail pharmacies in the U.S.

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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

JULY 6, 2022

"Honor Expert allows older adults and their families to easily call a dedicated toll-free number or start an online chat to ask questions about major aging-related topics, such as health and wellness, care planning, and home management. category tags: AI and machine learning , Family caregivers , Home Care. Meet Caregivers.

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MARCH 5, 2019

When assembling the 2019 tenth anniversary version, it was apparent that this year reflects change -- in the supply-demand balance in the overbuilt senior housing market, in policy changes driving health care services into the home, in market forecasts, and in the mix of vendors who serve the market.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. As a DPC physician myself, bringing Hint Health and AeroDPC together is extremely exciting and powerful for DPC as a whole” says Dr. Brown.

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Primary Care EMR Digital Health Patient Experience 54

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"Receiving reproductive health care, including early pregnancy termination care, through telehealth is no different." " The vast majority of patients choose to have their follow-up virtually, said McNicholas, although they do have the option to visit a health center in person.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Healthcare IT Public Health 175

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

JANUARY 3, 2022

Within five years, predictive, proactive and adaptive smart home solutions that support health and wellbeing, comfort and safety, and engagement and entertainment will emerge to meet the needs of older adults, including subscription-based services that are integrated with wearables. 2021 Client White Papers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

Voice First is changing health and wellness offerings today. And AARP and Optum have initiated pilots to determine if this technology can help mitigate social isolation among the elderly and improve health outcomes. But there are experiments and pilots for using Voice First technologies for health and wellness applications.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a not-small side effect of the gyrations in this industry, the consumer may be rightfully confused – how bad is my hearing, can I check it myself and am I at risk of developing health issues if it is not corrected ? Why doesn’t insurance cover them ? category tags: hearing loss , Seniors , smartphones, cell phones.

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