Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

But new market entrants should find local partners to test product effectiveness before going national. Two-factor authentication will likely be required as part of all online apps, including financial and health-related services. Continuous phone and watch patches should not be expected and indicate inadequate testing.

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Interoperability Mobile Health EHR 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 20, 2024

And did we mention health care sites? All I want is the result of blood test, presented in an explainable way, not just “HIGH”. But the audience can always stay home. Now consider a future in which you ask for the best way to do just about anything, including triage of the symptoms of your own health status.

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Patient Experience 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

The NY Times decided that tracking down the list and mapping nursing home deaths nationwide merited more than 30 contributing writers for the story. The ‘Nursing Homes in Crisis’ collection is about Covid-19 in 2020. Why are people in nursing homes? You probably know the reasons -- but let us recap. Lawyers are at the ready.

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Nursing 111

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. Passive activity monitoring assists with safety and wellbeing.

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Nursing Telehealth 125

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

No understatement, these are very difficult times for nursing homes. million residents of nursing homes were already very frail people, needing help with 3 or more ADLs. Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. So many of the 1.5 Most important?

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Nursing 110

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Consider hosting a drill where all non-essential staff work from home.

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EHR Telehealth EMR Telemedicine 186

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. On the other hand, Health 2.0 Here’s telehealth – no requests for help at this time, here’s diagnostics (see Stanford, testing all 3 types of virus!) and here’s home care. This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5 More when there’s more.

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HIPAA Telehealth mHealth Medicare 145

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The chances are good that their family member can remain at home through early stages, even continuing to live alone Even after a diagnosis, they'll continue to wonder whether it really is dementia and look for another test they can do at home. GreatCall Lively Home MedMinder , PillPack Ring Nest. Tech Categories.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 15, 2020

Consider a report this week that some labs only reported positive cases and that 100% of those tested were positive (oops), caught first by a local TV station. Then cases are jumping in Sunbelt nursing homes. What is happening with testing? As of today, the number tested positive is 301,810.

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Nursing 78

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A few simple test questions ‘(how do families fund nursing homes?’ Can AI be useful in the older adult markets of home care, senior living and beyond? 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. Stay tuned.

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Nursing Digital Health 121

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2019

Digital Health is in its bubble of $8.1 And that company is quietly pivoting to become a home care consolidator/platform company). They represent a large proportion of health care spending (including tech like the $3 billion PERS market ), and they represent both caregiver and care recipient in that market.

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Digital Health 85

Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

First, I focus my days on learning how people make health choices and decisions in real-time. Just as the issues and tensions of health equity and systemic racism exist all the time, the problem of finding trusted evidence-informed guidance heightens during this pandemic. Who needs a COVID-19 test? How good are tests?

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Nursing 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Certainly ccess has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. Restaurants and health facility check-in are but two examples. Today, many patients are signing onto the portal to view their test results. The patient portal(s) one for every insurer and medical practice.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

It also features ITRI's LPMS (Low Power Microwave Sensor) technology, which passed the FDA-level electromagnetic wave radiation EMC/EMI test by the IEC60601-1/IEC60606-2 regulation." FallCall Detect This program is for everyone who takes their overall health seriously and wants to try to prevent a heart attack or stroke.

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HIPAA Nursing Telehealth 141

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through cameras installed inside the household, the solution can detect the motions and postures of beloved family members with AI and release warning messages at the moment of danger, such as falling, sitting too long, leaving home without a clear reason, etc. the app will give off an alarm to notify all family members. Not yet available.

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mHealth Digital Health Telemedicine Telehealth 121

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. How do frontline military doctors successfully consult with surgeons back home when time is of the essence? Department for Veterans Affairs.

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EMR EHR Connected Health Telehealth 192

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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Primary Care Telecare Mental health Interoperability 158

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2022

New entrants should first form local partnerships to test communication and effectiveness before going national. Two-factor authentication will likely be required as part of all online apps, including financial and health-related services. Entry into the home. Technologies must be well-supported and intuitive.

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Interoperability Mobile Health 69

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"Receiving reproductive health care, including early pregnancy termination care, through telehealth is no different." Patients are initially evaluated via the clinic's InTouch platform to determine whether they need additional in-person testing, such as an ultrasound or a blood test.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Healthcare IT Public Health 176

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Maybe believe this one: could there be 50 million smart speakers in US (possibly with some homes having more than one)? On the other hand, according to Pew Research, only 66% of the 65+ (46 million) are broadband (that is, high enough speed) users to enable a smart speaker in the home. Perhaps non-users are in rural areas.

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HIPAA EHR Digital Health 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

The good news – this week’s Health Care Technology supplement transcended the limits of doctors and hospitals – and dabbled in the dilemmas of elder care – included technology to assist those with dementia and mitigate loneliness. Skip the tech – listen to the experts interviewed – first robots. Possibilities? Says Dr. P.

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Nursing 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 13, 2019

Some see a market opportunity in services ( home care , home health care , home remodeling ). Some see housing opportunities or changes to make age-friendlier communities , and some see looming health costs associated with the 50 million individuals now aged 65+. Hygiene – including oral health.

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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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Medical Billing Mental health EHR Healthcare IT 92

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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Health Technology Nursing Medicare Telehealth 78

Lloyd Price

JULY 30, 2018

Krishna Yeshwant, a doctor and investor with GV, Alphabet's venture firm, takes a lot of meetings with entrepreneurs that have lofty goals to fix health care. He drew it for me at HLTH, a major health conference, that happened in Las Vegas earlier this month. But different patients have different needs. Who's left out?

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Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 84

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 25, 2018

Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. Experts also see the trend in self-care for all types of health concerns now includes hearing loss. Training people on tactics after self-administered hearing tests.

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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. Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories.

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Digital Health 107

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. But for a disease free quality of life in their later years, they will they need to fix lifestyle and health issues that did not characterize their parents. Digital health.

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Nursing Digital Health Health Data Health Technology 109

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. They would get frustrated with connectivity issues, inputting information and testing the devices. " Dr. Lisa R.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Primary Care 166

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 28, 2020

From an economic standpoint -- what will they (or their families) spend money on, how is their health, what is the cost of their care, where do they live? Perhaps smartphone designers are (still) not reading the testing and usability issues studied and reported by IEEE in 2018. As for tech adoption…the AARP executive summary is upbeat.

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EHR Medicare 109

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. The In Hand Health Solution does just that in several ways: Full media communications all in one place. No more phone tag either. Request an invitation to try In Hand Health.

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HIPAA Telehealth 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 23, 2021

Today or soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home care offering or wearable product or even service to help other new entrants. Start with the home page that has modest and friendly graphics and images (not a ransom note with 27 different font size and colors) to identify what the product or service does or is. What’s that mean?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 18, 2018

Remember the Alpha test, when the product barely worked at all. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , home health care , entrepreneurship. Think back on the cycles of tech deployment. And what characterizes a pilot from an experiment from phase one of an actual deployment?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

The boom in home care has side effects -- turnover and risk. We want to trust home care workers with aging parents. Given expanding life expectancies at age 65 – an average of 20 more years for men and more for women, the possibility of ‘aging in place’ in a private home may be growing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Or creating a folding phone (without much testing) with a screen that breaks within days of announcement. The upshot – 54% will be unable to pay the $60,000 average annual cost of assisted living (make that $93,000 in Washington DC), even if they sell their home. category tags: VR/AR technology , cell phones, smartphones , tablets.

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Telehealth 71

Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Now there’s exciting news of a laser glucose monitor that is as accurate as home blood glucose monitoring kits. The next step is to shrink the technology, as few people have the space in their homes for a laser lab. The researchers found that the laser readings held their own with the blood samples in blood sugar accuracy.

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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. Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories.

Digital Health 53

Digital Health 53