Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

A recent survey conducted by 9amHealth found that 48% of Americans are on or want to be on a GLP-1 medication, and a staggering 20% would even change their jobs to get access to coverage for the drugs. Their members receive personalized care plans, prescription delivery, at-home lab tests, and unlimited specialist access.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Care workers – it’s not a shortage – it’s a crisis. People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you. From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The growth of the sensor market has created an opportunity for more focus on smart clothing, which has been around a long time, including for use in dementia care , but may have its greatest utility ahead. Siren Care. "An injury-detecting sock could help people with diabetes prevent amputations. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. Smart implants: Devices that can monitor vital signs, blood glucose levels, or medication intake 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

A number of companies popped into my inbox in the past week with announcements of a period of free access to remote care/engagement technologies – including and in alphabetical order CareCentrix , CareTree , Ergo , Eversound , Outpatient , Ready Responders , VitalTech , and NurseCaller. But nursing homes, specifically?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Family caregivers cannot provide enough care for a growing population of the 80+. AARP Public Policy research in 2013 revealed a future crisis in availability of people to care for an aging population (“You take care of Mom, but who will take care of you?”). Families fill in care gaps, but it’s not enough.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. A framework for tactical action.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Life has been worsening for older adults – in senior living and at home. Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term care , for those with dementia, unable to be hugged by family, it is far worse.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Here's what that could mean for telehealth, as more funding enables new opportunities for care. As the pandemic graphically revealed, there are many hundreds of miles of homes without broadband. The IIJA defines "unserved" as homes that lack access to broadband at 25 megabits per second download and 3 Mbps upload.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Meanwhile, the labor shortage has impacted every aspect of senior care, requiring a rethink of financial health of the businesses and the role of technology. In the meantime, here are eight new offerings in the market that are designed to improve wellbeing and care. There is a labor shortage everywhere -- ditto in senior care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

And Nielsen observed that the pandemic was a catalyst for the rise of tech use for working at home and shopping, among other uses. In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. Next generation: What are the dimensions of remote care technology?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. million unfilled jobs by 2026.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

Moving forward, this type of technology, often AI-enabled, is increasingly likely to be part of offerings from health insurers to improve subscriber engagement and wellbeing of health plan participants, enabling them to remain at home (and out of the hospital). category tags: social isolation , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fairly new at the time, a few senior living organizations embraced it for its home automation potential, possibility of concierge services -- turn on the lights! The generally accepted view was that this technology was going to be “Easy, Cheap, Useful, Smart, and Connected (home automation that just works).” Raise the blinds!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

Also note that the survey extended to boomers (those aged 56 to 74) who apparently cared less than younger people. Like the increasingly rare stereo speaker in the home, the smart speaker is a connected appliance. From the Commonwealth Care Alliance to the CTA Foundation, voice was predicted to become part of the "accessible ecosystem."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. The pace of innovation is accelerating, driven by older adult changing needs, shortage of care workers, investor interest and of course. Technologies for Older Adults from CES 2022. You may remember.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

Says Ken Dychwald in the WSJ article : “We’re going to have to look to nontraditional care,” says Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave, a consulting firm. What is the quantified care gap -- now and in the future? What is being attempted for in-home care? Multiple robotics initiatives involving personal care have all failed.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation. The home visit – no tech result, interesting motive. No – since they are independent of patient care. The 2017 Harvard article indicates that 1 million had signed up for these home nurse visits – but there were 19 million people covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

And it created a big challenge for the multiple PR firms engaged to help create that visibility to innovation in care. As the newly published vision states: “No longer is telehealth merely a virtual urgent care service. Amwell is now moving forward to help providers offer ‘ hospital at home’ – now part of multiple insurance offerings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the 'connected' home, people returning products note their trouble and aggravation. In addition, half of all households reported difficulty in setting up their Wi-Fi network (see Figure 1 ). AI and the Internet of Caring Things. Which means it will become very useful.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 3, 2023

In offering up a chart and commentary about tech in the ‘connected’ home, note trouble and aggravation. In addition, half of all households reported difficulty in setting up their Wi-Fi network (see Figure 1 ). As new products proliferate, 6 or more devices in the home, what will they do? AI and the Internet of Caring Things.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

Note the concerted efforts to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes , reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. Medical Guardian also informs that every 11 seconds, 1 in 4 Americans aged 65+ experience a fall-related injury.

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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. And that’s true for health care as well as generic retail, Marge asserted, introducing Deborah Weinswig who is CEO and Founder, Coresight Research.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Greater than you think – can you imagine that that by 2050, the number will grow from 72,000 to 1 million in the United States – in Canada, centenarians are the fastest-growing age group. Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Innovators in 2020 helped mitigate social isolation, enable in-home strength training for seniors, provided the tech mechanics (regardless of infrastructure) to connect older adults to families? Please join me on January 14 at 1:00 pm ET for a live virtual panel " What Should be Next for Remote Care ?"

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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. This development will also drive growth in virtual care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Compare that to PERS $1-2 billion market. an individual’s chronic diseases progresses, add appropriate (nurse-monitored) RPM technology that qualifies for reimbursement – including for home care agencies , which desperately need revenue sources that are less labor, more tech-dependent. Move further into the smarter watch space?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

Ava’s speech-to-text app provides 24/7 real-time audio transcription with about 5 errors in 100 words based on AI, and the highest possible accuracy with Ava Scribe at about 1 error in 100 words. category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology , smartphones. Learn more. Learn more. Sound Alert. Learn more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2022

SoundMind offers a voice-activated care concierge, along with activities and information on demand and video calling. These pioneering companies have the shared goal of using this cutting-edge technology to provide better patient care and outcomes in older adults. Future of Smart Homes and Older Adults December 2021. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2022

Louis on April 1 – and next week’s VIVE 2022 , the new health IT event in Miami. Fairly new at the time, a few senior living organizations embraced it for its home automation potential, possibility of concierge services -- turn on the lights! Raise the blinds! Book me on the afternoon trip!

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In Hand Health

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

You don’t want to waste any of that precious time scanning copies, printing exercises, or playing phone tag trying to communicate with your patients. Protocols are groups of templates (example: week 1-2 post total knee replacement) for even more streamlined care. No more phone tag either. No more phone tag either.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

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. A 24/7 monitoring service similar to home monitoring is also available. The only EKG solution for Apple Watch® Series 1-3.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 16, 2018

We believe technology has the potential to foster healthy, productive lives by enabling easier access to information and medical care," says Kurt Hulander, then senior director of health platforms at Best Buy. . category tags: Mobile PERS , cell phones, smartphones , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

You want to launch a boomer/senior, home health tech, caregiving, product or service. share by then – and Google Home-related will rise to 30%. They are astonishingly low already, according to a Rand study , at 1 per 100 million miles traveled. It’s Not About Your Grandmother – 10 Steps Before Launching! Does this matter?

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Then Gary looked forward at the evolution of self-care – the theme of this year’s annual conference. The goal of VBID is to align costs and outcomes in health care in terms of paying for what brings value. health care system $94.8 billion savings. That totals $146 billion.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 5, 2018

All four of these posts are about our technology life, as shoppers in stores as recently as July 1 , our experience with user interfaces that are designed for none , catching up on the hype/hope/fading hope about self-driving cars , and finally, the only thing that can terrorize a company the size of Walmart – Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

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