Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

These will be prioritized to immunize three target groups: healthcare workforce consisting of service providers, management & support workers in hospitals and social care, adults above 65, and about 45% of adults with comorbidities. The pandemic has reinforced the power of digital platforms in communicating and guiding healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Serve your residents and families with direct and robust communications—find out how to create better connections. Hospitals in the USA are struggling with lack of timely availability of the proper non-emergency patients (NEPTS) transportation. Learn more. Hippo Mobility. Learn more. Learn more.

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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. Patient education platforms.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The IoT technology and location sensors behind RTLS feature active-radio frequency identification (RFID) badges and tags to offer immediate enterprise visibility into the precise location of equipment, colleagues, or patients, while increasing workflow efficiencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Staff members, clinicians, and administrative staff can access patient health information and social circumstances while observing the patient from all angles to arrange appropriate treatment while empowering front-line support teams to communicate with and provide an excellent experience for patients. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

MedSign’s flagship product Qortex is the first TV-based telehealth platform that virtually connects hospitals, medical professionals, home care agencies and pharmaceutical companies with their patients 24/7, enabling real-time video, voice, and vital sign monitoring all in the comfort and safety of home. Learn more at Independa.

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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. The home – not the hospital -- becomes the care delivery hub. Providers now envision a care continuum that may extend into ‘hospital at home’ offerings.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

A striking shift from care in faci lities and hospitals to care in the home. . The adoption of smartphones among these age groups has been swift as families seek to communicate with loved ones. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. More than half of those aged 75+ have hearing loss.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Our department name became Information Services by design in order to communicate our focus on support and collaboration. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As Massachusetts continues efforts to promote inclusivity, it has had to take a hard look at Boston’s many hospitals. Boston Medical Center specifically serves a significantly disproportionate number of disadvantaged patients living in the Greater Boston community. Another barrier was transportation.

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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. Consider that older adults remain in hospitals and rehab facilities because there are no workers to help them with care at home. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2020

It turns out that most (66%) of hospitalizations with Covid-19 in New York were people who had been staying at home, the majority retired or unemployed and over age 51. Which was Newsom’s recommendation in March that hospitals focus on the young ? category tags: Aging , Seniors , social isolation , social media.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 17, 2022

It can reduce reliance on lipreading, which could prove very helpful at this moment, especially when talking to people wearing face masks in places such as hospitals, supermarkets, and even in pubs and restaurants.” Pedius is a communication system that allows deaf people to make normal phone calls. Learn more. Learn more. “Now,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Hospitals are closing, particularly in rural areas – boosting expectations about care delivery in the home. The core of coordination rests on communication, which is notoriously poor for older adults seeing multiple healthcare providers. Consider the baby boomer population growth.

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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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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 Communities are finding that telehealth increases broadband adoption as well as improves the physical and economic health of residents.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The latest patient engagement survey from Stericycle Communication Solutions found that nearly half of patients have booked appointments online (48%) or sought care from a non-traditional provider (45%) in the last year, with half of those patients using retail care and one-third using virtual care.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Second, I’m fascinated by the challenge of communicating what works for people and what doesn’t, specifically, communication leading to action. He struggles to manage COVID-19 and life outside of the hospital with his sister and mother. What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. Short summary.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2022

Patients with chronic diseases or those who are discharged from hospitals may benefit from the use of RPM technology to monitor significant chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension or congestive heart failure, and especially to avoid a recurrence of an issue that would require readmission. Hearing aid users need smartphones and apps.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MARCH 19, 2020

Longtime SPM member Eran Kabakov @EranKabakov of Docola is a physical therapist working to democratize patient knowledge and communication. He’s created the platform for clinicians and hospitals to e-prescribe information, create personalized resources (e.g. Register here. videos) and track whether people access them.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last month, long-time colleague and friend Colin Hung interviewed me on the #HITMC broadcast to discuss a lovely recognition I’d received: HIT Advocate of the Year , a program highlighting various friends-in-the-field active in digital health, communications and marketing, sponsored by Medigy. “H” is for hand-washing.

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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.), This could be an enabler for differentiating behaviors among users in senior housing, hospitals and nursing homes. Deadline is December 31, 2022, for Verizon – other carriers already switched.

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GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

From specialist shortages to long wait times to transportation barriers, many people around the world don’t live near well-equipped hospitals that provide readily available access to care—leaving rural residents to either travel for care or go without the healthcare resources they need. SOLVING ACCESS TO SPECIALTY CARE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This medication non-adherence (not filling prescriptions or missing dosages) is a major health issue – resulting in 10% of hospitalizations, 125,000 deaths, and costing the healthcare system up to $300 billion/year. Units are easily connected to the Internet for communication to caregivers about whether the unit was opened at the right time.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

The point is that the consumer healthcare industry has to do a better job communicating the value provided by these products. As an example, Kristin pointed to the Tylenol #WeCare campaign, shown in this video: IRI’s Nishat Mehta tag-teamed with Kristin, discussing the growth and importance of influencer campaigns and new marketing modes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Patients with chronic diseases or those who are discharged from hospitals may benefit from the use of RPM technology to monitor significant chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension or congestive heart failure, and especially to avoid a recurrence of an issue that would require readmission. . Passive: Remote monitoring of activity.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

Amwell is now moving forward to help providers offer ‘ hospital at home’ – now part of multiple insurance offerings. He noted that J2Global’s role is purely transport, ‘healthcare communication that works.’ category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 25, 2018

"Theora Connect™ is a wristwatch-style monitoring and communication device. This Theora Care duo provides a 2-way communications system between wearer and caregiver. In residential care, a hospital or other places a caregiver isn’t always present, users can benefit from a virtual check in. Tochtech Technologies Inc.

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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. Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Find clinics and hospitals nearby your location, request and manage appointments, view your care providers’ contact information, and communicate with them via secure messaging. category tags: healthcare , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , digital health. CarePassport. Lear more at GetWellNetwork.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office. And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially. This is due in part to U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 2, 2019

By then, 71% of the 65+ were using PCs to communicate with family and friends. Meanwhile, only one-third of hospitals and 45% of doctors actually offer telehealth services. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging technology. What’s changed in adoption by 2018? Oh yes, and does it save money? The jury is still out.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

Then hospitals limited admissions in anticipation of an onslaught – and limiting their revenue-generating business – and some shut down completely. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , seniors and aging policy , social isolation , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , healthcare. And on and on.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Understanding ASCs Regulatory Changes and Their Billing Practices Outpatient surgery centers (ASCs) perform many surgical procedures outside of hospitals. ASCs are required to evaluate risk, develop policies, procedures, and a communication plan, as well as train and test their final plan.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Patient-monitoring startup Biobeat said today that the FDA has cleared its patch and watch for measurement of blood pressure, oxygenation and heart rate in hospitals, clinics, long-term care and at home. category tags: CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , vehicle/transportation technology-services , digital health , robotics.

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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. The technology had to be learned, and also had to be communicated to patients for their end of it.”

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