Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Here are six blog posts from the month of June: PERS Insider helpfully listed the most common PERS Google searches. Voice assistants made device hardware actually seem smart. The conclusion of the Atlantic article would seem to be facetious – ‘Google is still useful for many’, considering that 91% of searches are done with it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

I've seen inroads to patients' homes made with partnerships with broadband carriers or cable TV operators. To ensure that your clinicians are traveling using optimum routing based on the schedule, use and collaborate with solutions such as Google Maps, Apple Maps or a third party. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

HomeHero ($23 million, direct-to-consumer) shut down in 2017, “more bluster than disrupter ” – including a link to founder Kyle Hill’s whiny story of disillusionment that made him ‘hang up his cape.’ And given recent noisy issues about weak background checks , was it smart – and of what benefit will this firm to Google?

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Medicare 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 16, 2024

These assertions have been made before, of course. Or CES 2019 , when Google Assistant was everywhere and today, when it appears to be ‘ going down the tubes.’ category tags: AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline , robotics , hearables/hearing technology Consider 2020, right before the start of COVID-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 10, 2020

These issues will only be better understood as senior housing communities are surveyed, and it is possible to figure out what policy or business changes have made a difference. After that, the caregiving aide speaks a music request to the Echo Dot (or Google Mini) also remotely set up by her family, and Mrs. Smith nods off to sleep.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Since 2020, several innovation accelerators, such as AppWorks Accelerator, Google Project Hatcher, and Draper, have guided the platform and offered their assistance. category tags: CES 2023 , hearables/hearing technology , digital health , assistive technologies , smartphones; wearables , pet technology. Learn more. Rise Gardens. "W

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

Or will these only being made available in the form of drive through testing for those with symptoms to avoid further spread of the virus. category tags: senior living , social isolation , covid-19. Will there be test kits available to senior living communities everywhere to test staff so that they can be cleared to come in?

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Nursing 65

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

Or will these only being made available in the form of drive through testing for those with symptoms to avoid further spread of the virus. category tags: senior living , social isolation , covid-19. Will there be test kits available to senior living communities everywhere to test staff so that they can be cleared to come in?

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Nursing 53

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

Or will these only being made available in the form of drive through testing for those with symptoms to avoid further spread of the virus. category tags: senior living , social isolation , covid-19. Will there be test kits available to senior living communities everywhere to test staff so that they can be cleared to come in?

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Nursing 48

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

Focus on socialization has meant that even those that made it most of the way into the market, like Jibo, spent $73 million and collapsed. Or did Amazon (and Google) solve that with its line of Echo devices, reminders, notifications, and drop-in calls? Was socialization the right caregiving problem to solve?

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Digital Health 82

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The last published eMarketer survey in 2019 sized the software voice assistant market (Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa et al.) And no doubt that's just a subset of what's happening as frantic attempts are made to close gaps in communication, care delivery, safety, social isolation and more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

Over the years, consider the pilots of Rendever (virtual reality) at Brookdale , Benchmark’s pilot of Google Home and Samsung tablets , or CarePredict in LifeWell facilities – just a few of the many. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors , dementia care. Recreational?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2019

Or mull over the technology industry, which is releasing new versions of every category faster than you can Google them, filling voids like adding mouse for the iPad. Virtual reality has made its way into the 'future of healthcare delivery' consulting, as firms like Care Innovations and Deloitte publish their how-to white papers.

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Telehealth 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These assertions have been made before, of course. Or CES 2019 , when Google Assistant was everywhere and today, when it appears to be ‘ going down the tubes.’ And Google is no better with Pixel phones. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , smartphones; wearables , baby boomers

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

As it often happens with major catastrophic events, natural or human-made, many societal practices change irreversibly. The pandemic has made us all afraid to touch any surface exposed to the public. I discuss a few of these and their potential impact on healthcare consumer experiences. The rise of "contactless" experiences.

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Telehealth Digital Health Interoperability Public Health 213

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 28, 2021

The last few weeks has seen a lot of debate about big technology companies involvement in healthcare, what they are getting right, what they are getting wrong and why big names such as Google have made the decision to withdraw from the market again, having previously scaled down their interest in 2012.

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EHR 90

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 7, 2018

Because there is competition now, primarily from Google, the market share projection for Amazon ( which ‘shipped tens of millions of devices at Christmas ’) will drop from 66.6% share by then – and Google Home-related will rise to 30%. Other than Amazon and Google – “Other” will grow from 8.3% Should most of us care?

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Chilmark Research

JULY 13, 2015

It’s not every day that health-related news from Google gets buried, but recent headlines about the Supreme Court upholding a key provision of the Affordable Care Act and the nation’s largest insurers playing matchmaker seem to have relegated Google’s planned health-tracking wristband to the proverbial back page of the Internet.

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Life Science Health Technology mHealth 60

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 2, 2018

A single release is inexpensive on Business Wire or PRNewsire -- content that will surface on newly-created Google alerts long after the launch date -- and may live on somewhere even after the company is long gone. Okay, you've made it past that, and now have a step-by-step plan for the show, likely assisted by your new PR firm.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

On the one hand, the details of how the sausage is made can be unappealing and dry; on the other hand, I’m so excited about it, I must share it with you. What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. Classification systems and search engines: PubMed, Medline Plus, and Google. OK, here goes, Part 2.

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Nursing 52