Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The projections showed that it would move from a ratio of 7 to 1 (using 2010 census data) down to 4 to 1 by 2030. And in 2020 (pre-Covid), AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving survey showed that nearly 1 in 5 Americans provided care to a family member with health or functional needs. Then things got worse.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Meanwhile, Medicare Advantage plans telemarket home nurse visits which provide an opportunity to assess risk scores , enabling them to boost insurer reimbursements from Medicare based on that assessment, independent of whether the insured has already been assessed at the doctor’s office. With persuasion? That’s 5 percent! Just saying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

AI and voice, Virtual Nurse Assistant – smart and dynamic, listens and learns, offering personalized, conversational, health monitoring and management. The software calls every day – user answers the phone and presses 1 to be checked in for the day." category tags: social isolation , AgeTech , dementia care, cognitive decline

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Nursing 62

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Andrea Fox | July 13, 2023 News The new nursing challenge: Adapting to AI-enabled workflows for quality improvement Jung In Park, a professor at the University of California Irvine’s School of Nursing and a. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement The process.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Compare that to PERS $1-2 billion market. an individual’s chronic diseases progresses, add appropriate (nurse-monitored) RPM technology that qualifies for reimbursement – including for home care agencies , which desperately need revenue sources that are less labor, more tech-dependent. Move further into the smarter watch space?

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Nursing Medicare Telehealth 131

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? Nursing homes – consternation, condemnation are words that rule the day. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Health Technology Nursing Medicare Telehealth 78

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

” A surprise element here is the Echo tag that came from a pair of gloves I recently purchased. From the Day 1 ABCovid-19 Journal published yesterday and here listening to my waxing lyrically about Italy, you now know I have a relationship with Europe. “H” is for hand-washing. Stay tuned, and stay well!

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Public Health Leadership Life Science Nursing 295

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. These include senior housing, skilled nursing facilities, home care, home healthcare, or healthcare providers. Next generation: What are the dimensions of remote care technology?

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Remote care Telehealth Nursing Medicare 94

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Greater than you think – can you imagine that that by 2050, the number will grow from 72,000 to 1 million in the United States – in Canada, centenarians are the fastest-growing age group. Figure 1: Table of technology categories that may matter. category tags: baby boomers , Seniors , aging in place. Implication/Benefit/risk.

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Nursing Digital Health Health Data Health Technology 109

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

Consider what it meant for the elderly with dementia, for families cut off from in-person visits, and what the caregiving nightmare was like in nursing homes. Voice-enabled as appropriate and useful, but step 1, let's see more of the older adult world tech-enabled.

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Remote care Telehealth Patient Experience Nursing 120

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

A smart lamp that hangs on the wall and anticipates and prevents falls of residents in assisted living and nursing facilities, Aladin uses artificial intelligence (not sensors) to detect changes in motion, temperature, and more. Learn more at Absolute Audio. Aladin Smart La mp. Learn more at ITRI. The Core Kit.

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HIPAA Nursing Telehealth 141

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021 Featured Decision Content: Cost-cutting will be a priority for hospitals in the US and globally.

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Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals 213

Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Editor’s note: We strive to provide a complete picture of life with Type 1 diabetes. I was six years old when I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. When the manufacturer of the insulin pump improved their product, declaring the old model obsolete and no longer supported, it forced customers to meet the exorbitant $5,000 price tag.

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Nursing 84

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

John Nebergall, SVP and GM for J2Global’s eFax offering (one of the business lines, 10 million subscribers, of this $1 billion company. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. J2Global – from the telehealth sublime to the reality of fax.

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Telehealth mHealth EHR Nursing 146

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2018

They are astonishingly low already, according to a Rand study , at 1 per 100 million miles traveled. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , voice/AI technology , senior living , robotics. Let’s remember the so-called problem being hustled into the market -- to reduce deaths from auto accidents. How comforting.

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Nursing 60

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

The only EKG solution for Apple Watch® Series 1-3. Nurses can set reminders for medications, list family contacts, play music, and ultimately customize and enhance the consumer experience for these seniors. In case a loved one is confused or lost, the caregiver can calm him down and help guide him to safety." KardiaBand. "

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mHealth Mobile Health Patient Experience Nursing 111

Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Editor’s note: We strive to provide a complete picture of life with Type 1 diabetes. I was six years old when I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. When the manufacturer of the insulin pump improved their product, declaring the old model obsolete and no longer supported, it forced customers to meet the exorbitant $5,000 price tag.

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Nursing 48

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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Digital Health Nursing Primary Care HIPAA 91

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

And there has been an 88% increase in the number of open Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) jobs. category tags: AI and machine learning , senior living , Home Care , seniors and aging policy One recent positive development – adding paths to promotion to RN for CNAs. Shortage of workers will worsen in 2024.

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Nursing 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 18, 2019

Only eight states have authorized families to install them in nursing homes. When a disaster happens, as with the death of Hollywood Hills nursing home residents , there can be an attempt to prevent future disasters by introducing new mandates for generators. The Care.com disaster is a wakeup call – who watches the watchers?

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Nursing 98

GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

In remote Zimbabwe villages healthcare may be limited to a monthly visit from a nurse whose job it is to see as many patients as possible in a single day. While Brazilian petroleum giant Petrobas has urgent care nurses on their oil platforms, they can’t always diagnose or judge the acuity of a health problem.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Nursing Remote care 90

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 18, 2019

Only eight states have authorized families to install them in nursing homes. When a disaster happens, as with the death of Hollywood Hills nursing home residents , there can be an attempt to prevent future disasters by introducing new mandates for generators. A year or more later, two-thirds of nursing homes have not complied (yet).

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Nursing 48

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.

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Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 184

Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2018

The organization is clearly committed to using Voice First interfaces for patients, for internal questions (“Who is the Charge Nurse on 7 South?”), for hands-free operating room checklists, for post-discharge guidance and for home health (100,000 interactions to date). category tags: Voice First/AI technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business.

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Nursing 63

Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In Part 1: What Could Go Wrong? of our four-part series, we introduced Carlos, an ICU nurse treating COVID-19 patients. In Part 1, we introduced ourselves as a mighty band of volunteers and described the early steps of our journey. What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging.

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Nursing 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

TigerTouch allows providers to control communication by initiating communications with a patient’s cell number via text message, thus solving phone-tag and voicemail problems. The system also enables care providers to securely exchange photos, videos and file attachments on their smartphones. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Telehealth Nursing Accountable Care Remote care 161