Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The term “Digital literacy” has been defined by the American Library Association task force as " the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills." Digital literacy – what is it?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

From integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare and health data platforms to establishing robust data standards that reach beyond clinical settings to managing patient consent and increased patient access, it is fair to say that health data exchange and data management have many important intricacies worthy of careful attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dmitrii Evstiukhin , Director of Managed Services at Provectus In today’s world, personalized and efficient digital interactions are expected, especially in the healthcare industry. This article offers a simple five-step framework for adopting AI/ML-powered customer experience solutions in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. category tags: senior living , Home Care , home health care , tech-enabled home care For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

" As I reflect upon the year 2020, it is unequivocally highlighted and underscored as the most significant year in my lifetime thus far regarding the healthcare industry's response to the desperation generated by the coronavirus. The year 2021 can be the most exciting for the healthcare industry.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 11, 2023

Now Accepting Proposals for Disruptive Ideas That Address the Most Pressing Issues Across the Healthcare Landscape PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS This year’s Innovation Challenge invites proposals designed to address the biggest issues faced by healthcare providers, patients and organizations. 2-3, 2023. CEO of CharmHealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation. Healthcare professionals have remained resilient over the course of the pandemic and the resulting stress has been well documented.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think that this PurposeOfUse would logically be a sub-concept of the existing Healthcare Operations. Thus data could be communicated with an attached Obligation to not use it for Machine Learning Training (seems like a refrain). this would require tagging each data resource.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

at that point with “40,000-plus innovators in 130 chapters across 31 countries”, was acquired by the Louisville Healthcare CEO Council. Louisville ownership has transformed both its members and sponsorship -- senior living, skilled nursing, healthcare, insurers. In 2021, Aging 2.0, Here are five exhibitors from the Aging 2.0

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We’ve seen how technology and innovation in other verticals of healthcare have created better treatments, cost-savings, and health outcomes that have ultimately improved lives. MedSign’s Qortex is a secure, HIPAA-compliant, two-way communication platform that connects healthcare professionals to their patients through the home television.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Care coordination in healthcare is largely a pipe dream. The core of coordination rests on communication, which is notoriously poor for older adults seeing multiple healthcare providers. See this 2022 study about care coordination in healthcare for older adults – 42% perceived poor care coordination, including 14.8%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

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.” Each tag contains a unique QR code and matching alphanumeric code. Learn more at HandsFree Health. Learn more at eTagz.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 22, 2023

The pressure to own a smartphone is intense, whether it is from family members for instant communication and sharing, healthcare service providers who want older adults to use tech to manage health, use Apple Pay, and even use their phone to verify access to a website. Why on earth?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

This is the breakthrough push that the healthcare industry -- notably providers – needed to accelerate telehealth adoption. Your healthcare provider isn’t running any training today. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. The key phrase in this? So someone (you?)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

David Chou Healthcare chief information officers had a lot to take in at HIMSS22 this past week. There were many new product and partnership announcements and insightful panels and discussions, but here are two critical takeaway themes from HIMSS22 relevant to healthcare decision-makers like you! Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

” BMC also needed to improve communication between the medical center, the patient/family, and all the caregivers on the patient’s team – school nurses, VNA, early intervention and any other member of their care team. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Healthcare stakeholders need the patient data that healthcare providers possess. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

The lack of broadband access for older adults limited vaccine sign-up or even communication with families or friends. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. The slow rollout of Wi-Fi in senior living was, to say the least, a miscalculation about the future. That is a sign. More when there is more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 4, 2020

Each of those devices is enabled for older adults by either more targeted marketing and packaging, enabling software, or bundling into training and solutions for in-home caregiving and/or healthcare. The service improves elders' safety and makes communication and care collaboration intuitive and easy. Here are five of them: Aloe Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Happy Halloween!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 27, 2020

And no doubt that's just a subset of what's happening as frantic attempts are made to close gaps in communication, care delivery, safety, social isolation and more. . These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That connectivity became essential for engagement, remote patient monitoring (RPM), telehealth interactions, family interactions, and staff communications. Healthcare leaders and their tech partners agree on the need for radical change – and the result is the ramp-up of remote care offerings for the home.

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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). The report is published , the feedback positive, observations strike a chord. Avatars are emerging built on health protocols and voluminous data sets.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

It has looked like all Healthcare providers, including Home Health, were getting the same telehealth arrangement as physicians’ practices – so telehealth services could only be used to augment in-person visits/care. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , senior living , social isolation , SNF.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

billion to communities to help residents with training, digital literacy, and fighting the digital divide. NTIA worked with the Federal Communications Commission to stand up the $14.2 Many states have someone designated as the healthcare/telehealth advocate, champion, healthcare statewide or healthcare representative.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Last January 2021, WaterStreet, a healthcare investment company, coughed up a mind-bending $100 million to Medical Guardian, a long time (2006) privately-held PERS provider, to ‘fund expansion.’ category tags: Mobile PERS , smartphones , wearables, smart watch. Another long-time PERS player sees a watch, makes a watch.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Technology’s role in mitigating it is being studied in research programs and healthcare. Tailor communications and orchestrate appropriate interventions quickly, easily and efficiently without disruption to existing workflow." category tags: social isolation , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline Learn more at CareAngel.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

healthcare system, which operates on a fee-for-service insurance infrastructure, is leading to increased provider burnout, patient dissatisfaction, and ballooning costs. In addition to providing doctors with relief from unnecessary administrative burden, patients are looking to DPC for higher quality healthcare with a transparent price tag.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

Consider the changes in healthcare protocols designed to protect children, versus older adults. category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media. One writer wondered if the Covid-19 pandemic had largely impacted children versus older adults , would the response have been more earlier or more aggressive?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

The objective of these remote monitoring technologies is to help healthcare teams, care workers and/or families understand if any issues are occurring inside the home when they cannot be there in person. The lack of broadband access for older adults limited vaccine sign-up or even communication with families or friends.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 11, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI — CharmHealth , a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, today announced that Binah.ai All submissions will be carefully evaluated by a panel of esteemed judges with expertise in healthcare technology and innovation. For more information on CharmHealth, visit www.charmhealth.com.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For older adults, that included the following potentially obsolete categories: Medical alert devices (fall detectors, communicators, etc.), And basic Medicare still does not cover, although Medicare Advantage plans (like United Healthcare , for example) in some locations do. fire alarms, some smart watches, E-readers, and GPS trackers.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Looking forward 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, secure communication between doctors, patients, clinicians and nurses is going to be an essential utility and productivity tool, potentially unrivalled by any other technology in terms of impact and widespread adoption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

" Abortion providers told Healthcare IT News that they had already shifted much of their practice over to telehealth in the interest of patient safety. As with other healthcare specialties, McNicholas acknowledged that not every case is right for telehealth. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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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. The point is that the consumer healthcare industry has to do a better job communicating the value provided by these products. billion savings.

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