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For care delivery and older adults, is the time now for AI in Healthcare?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This is a category, like scribes, that seems obvious when you think about the current healthcare labor shortage and a frail aging patient population. No surprise, telehealth visits extend the reach of medical providers across all geographies (not just in the US) and enable care coordination , not just care delivery.

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Tech-enabled home care 2012-2021 -- are we there yet?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

At the lowest skill level, non-medical home care jobs on average pay $12/hour according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Virtual care is coordinated, integrated on the care recipient’s behalf. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. Most firms hire part-time workers and overall job turnover is high – 64% in 2020.

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Focus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In January, 2019, the coordinating body for Health IT (ONC) released interoperability advice, connecting people to their care , that requires representing the relationship between a patient and another person (provider, caregiver, or family member). Caregiving demands of an aging population drive policy change in 2019.

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Whatever Happened to Tech-Enabled Home Care?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

With smaller investment that year, it's good to see that Envoy (concierge service for independent living), Kindly Care (home care agency), Caremerge (home care platform), and Seniorlink (care coordination) are all in their same businesses from 2016 – and others from the period like Envoy and CareLinx received additional investment and moved forward.

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Consider: Aging in a Virtual World

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Last month a startup launched with $35 million of funding to create a virtual caregiver nurse , targeting the labor shortage in private duty care. category tags: VR/AR technology , Seniors , Family caregivers , Home Care , home health care. Virtual senior living.

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Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Even so, the circumstances have amplified staff burnout and pressured an already fragile labor market. Effective enterprise-wide care coordination can be greatly hindered by manual workflow systems. Healthcare professionals have remained resilient over the course of the pandemic and the resulting stress has been well documented.