Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from hospitals. As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care. Tech will assist work in home and home healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They have smartphones, tablets, Smart TVs, wearables – with the same disinterest in smart home technologies. Wearables, smart home tech, and home assistants (assume that means voice offerings) have not crossed the halfway mark in adoption. Has someone written the report “The Best Smart Home Offerings for Solo Agers”?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2023

Here are four categories of AI for older adults – all discussed in the upcoming report, The Future of AI and Older Adults , to be published the week of May 15: AI in home and home health care. With the rise of hospital-at-home programs , you guessed it, more will be AI-enabled. AI in the home ‘wellbeing’ infrastructure.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed. Note that Medicaid pays between 45-65% of nursing home costs in most states. Given the staffing crisis in long-term care , maybe technology’s time has come. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And now healthcare providers are exploring and expanding new use cases and applications for a wide array of technologies that can enable patients to receive care outside of the proverbial four walls. By Andrea Fox | September 01, 2023 News Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: What NASA is taking away from the home healthcare industry Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 21, 2023

That committing to aging independently at home is a permanent decision. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or that workers in each of those do not also find work in nursing homes. Reality check: Family caregivers may hire home care services. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The promoters of the standard, intended to make the vision of the smart home, with easily connected devices, a reality. Will that make it easier to use sensors, and therefore make it more appealing? Or that home care organizations could continue to turn down contracts due to lack of workers to fill them.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Health is made as much outside of medical care providers’ sites as it is at home, at work, at play, at school. Note that 3 in 4 Washingtonians supported the law when polled in March 2023, with only 17% of people opposing it.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from the hospital. As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. Their members receive personalized care plans, prescription delivery, at-home lab tests, and unlimited specialist access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

David Chou Since the arrival of the pandemic, healthcare organizations have faced a cultural shift. If we can seize this moment, we may be able to make this a uniquely transformative year for healthcare. aka hospital-at-home. Delivery of care at home necessitates the clinician to go and visit the patient's house.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi. It’s care circle could be modeled after the original OneClick.chat – video chat for solo agers to converse with others while dining alone at home. Up ahead -- CES 2023. Check it out !].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Among the many types and features of sensors, here are five offerings, all info from the companies: PeoplePower. " People Power’s solution leverages passive in-home sensors similar to those found in a security system and does not require cameras or wearables. category tags: IoT and home monitoring , baby boomers , senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 13, 2023

An optimistic view of home care’s future as seen from 2012. Several times in the past decade, interviews were conducted with experts that lead to some reports about the home care industry. This chart came from a report, The Future of Home Care Technology 2012 that was sponsored by Microsoft, Verizon and LivHome, in 2012.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The home care market is (still) a booming business. Home care of various types now augments and even enhances services that not long ago may have been provided by senior housing. Home care workers are also among the lowest paying and least trained occupations. And many already at home and in assisted living need the same care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a category, like scribes, that seems obvious when you think about the current healthcare labor shortage and a frail aging patient population. And this updated information will ideally be available to other medical providers, not to mention senior and home health care companies that will soon see the discharged patient.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2024

In the future, in the healthcare world, the plethora of portals may not be required since we will have already agreed to share data with a few selected organizations and systems that are used. category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking , smart home , smartphones, cellphones , Television/Smart TV , wearables, smart watch

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The original 2016 definition from Susann Keohane and Nicola Palmarini at IBM stated: "A network of connected objects (devices, sensors) and cognitive systems with a clear mission: to actively care for people – their physical and mental well-being, homes, loved ones…and….when And not enough workers for US nursing homes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It's not just caregivers and clinicians who have had to master the new modality for delivering care; healthcare consumers and their extended network of family and friends now have to adapt to telehealth as a new normal in accessing and receiving care. But telehealth is much more. As an example, elder care differs from pediatric care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care service is now available nationwide. Here are just four of the trends identified in the 2022 Market Overview, Technology for Aging. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Then there is the cost of 24x7 home care, same as assisted living (which is $67K in Massachusetts, for example) or even Genworth’s 44-hours of home care ($53-54K annual). So Mom or Dad stays at home as long as feasible and even beyond – and that’s why the home care industry today is booming.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Here are five companies drawn from the report and beyond – all material is from the company websites: eCaring. “ Modernizing home care -- Behind eCaring is a team that cares a lot about caregiving. Now, we’re bringing transformative technology to one of the most needed, fastest-growing markets — home care." Learn more at eCaring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2023

In healthcare, there are research reports and predictions, though adoption has been slow. Caspar's generative AI has access to 24/7 in-home data with which it builds a model for minute-by-minute behavioral predictions about residents, summarized in the form of alerts and observations for nurses and caregivers."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

More than 14 million urban homes and nearly 4 million rural homes have no broadband. Broadband in millions of additional homes isn't strong enough to drive telehealth. The ER doctor sends an email note via telehealth to the parents' home and later does a Zoom session to show huge X-ray files. and 10 p.m.,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Technology was essential for many adults stuck at home during the pandemic, providing some social connection, access to online shopping, home delivery services, and requests for transportation. In-home and high-speed access to the Internet is still elusive for many in the US. Device access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. Real-time telehealth are activities happening “right here and now,” often involving medical or healthcare professionals.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022. Hospitals are closing, particularly in rural areas – boosting expectations about care delivery in the home. Care coordination in healthcare is largely a pipe dream. Trends worth noting about care work.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

HomeEXCEPT. “ HomeEXCEPT is hardware and software for active seniors, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and researchers. The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , wearables, smart watch , IoT and home monitoring , 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

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With the beginning of HIPAA-compliance, diagnostic capabilities based on voice, and increased personalization capability, Voice First technology promises to provide greater assistance to health professionals and a better experience for consumers at home. The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

And in other news, CMS really wants older adults with dementia to remain in their homes. The government agency seems to have given up on improving the quality or affordability of dementia care in senior living or nursing homes. Never mind enabling caregivers to enter a robust job market away from their homes. Just asking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

As the pandemic graphically revealed, there are many hundreds of miles of homes without broadband. ACP gives qualifying homes up to $30/month – $75/month for Native American households – for Internet access plus a $100 subsidy for a computing device. Department of Commerce subsidizes in its $42.5

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