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Care coordination for older adults – still elusive, does tech help?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Catching my eye – a relatively new company, Sage, offers a ‘ care coordination’ platform for senior living , just received another $15 million. And caregiving sons , in particular, are struggling with caring for their aging parents. category tags: healthcare , home health care , Home Care , tech-enabled home care

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. economic outlook following today’s news that the U.S. At the start of the 2021 new year, one-half of U.S. economy lost 140,000 jobs — the greatest job loss since April 2020 in the second month of the pandemic.

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Connected Care -- Changing the work process with technology

Aging in Place Technology Watch

View required new tasks entered in the digital activity log real time. A different story from the parent, the Caregiver and the agency. category tags: tech-enabled home care , Home Care. Review paper logs after getting to home. View digital activity log before getting to home. Piecing it all together. Prepared. . . .

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With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Paddy Padmanabhan The pandemic has given us, among other things, a new buzzword: the "next normal." Many of us have gotten used to the idea that telehealth is just a new way to meet the doctor, only now it is through a video visit. Some of this shift to virtual care will be permanent. But telehealth is much more.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

The journey to her new role as Patient Ambassador with Parexel was really 16 years in the making, advocating for her son, Emmett, and for her own cancer patient persona. Born in 2005 and diagnosed a year later with a constellation of conditions, caregiving for Emmett is full-time for both of his parents. “I like business and people.

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Ten Years – Technology for Older Adults – 2009-2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In 2009, adult children wanted their parents to be online or at least get email. Today, to a large degree ( more than two-thirds ), of their parents are online. New startups are launching in home monitoring and fall detection – incorporating AI/video images , sensors, radar, motion and predictive analytics. Compare to today.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - 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. when students have video-based homework and parents work from home late. " asked Peter Caplan, the managing consultant for New York-based eHealth Systems & Solutions. and 10 p.m.,