Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dmitrii Evstiukhin , Director of Managed Services at Provectus In today’s world, personalized and efficient digital interactions are expected, especially in the healthcare industry. And the stakes are high. When done well, great customer experience improves customer satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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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.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. WIDEX MOMENT™: A digital hearing aid that can adjust to different sound environments and stream music or phone calls 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tech-driven Solutions: Digital Therapeutics (DTx): App-based solutions offering personalized pain management programs, education, and support. Value-based care models: Emphasis on cost-effective and evidence-based pain management strategies. Telehealth: Remote consultations and monitoring for improved accessibility and convenience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Here's what that could mean for telehealth, as more funding enables new opportunities for care. Complementing BEAD is the Digital Equity Act program that is granting $2.5 billion to communities to help residents with training, digital literacy, and fighting the digital divide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. What do you think will happen with telemedicine in 2022?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Karie provides an automated solution to the common, costly, but completely preventable problem of poor medication adherence for elderly patients living alone. Our elderly devices come equipped with heart rate monitors, fall detection and GPS - taking care of our elders has never been easier." Learn more at MoviWear.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2018

Behavior monitoring for aging-at-home, allowing better care services, improved emergency detection and predictive analytics. On-Demand platform for agencies to drive greater efficiencies and improved transparency in the delivery of care. A sleeve that uses electrical stimulation to regenerate muscles and prevent falls for the elderly.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

"She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. RoundTrip. "Expand access to care through transportation. Care coordinators can book as many rides as they need for their patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Perhaps they had or have a grandmother who fell down and want to launch a new tech to prevent others from having a similar experience. No – since they are independent of patient care. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring , Technology - AARP. This is laudable.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. Today’s patients want seamless, holistic, and reliable health care access, self-service, and communication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"In the past, we haven't worried as much about coordinating care across the patient journey, from preoperative education to surgical aftercare," said Andrew Lovewell, administrator. Columbia Orthopaedic Group felt it was representative of its quality and reputation to create a system that improved the care it offered patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

"She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. RoundTrip. "Expand access to care through transportation. Care coordinators can book as many rides as they need for their patients.

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JULY 10, 2019

Results-driven AI technology designed for memory care. The Stay Smart Care mobile app will also alert all caretakers linked to your account." Using Alexa, it bridges the digital divide for seniors, overcoming barriers associated with other technologies while enhancing their sense of connectedness and wellbeing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. As the population ages , will there be enough family member and professional caregivers to provide care? Making assumptions about care helps understand centenarian future needs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. What happens when people avoid health-related in-person care? But is telehealth viable for the oldest?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 30, 2019

"Speak2 provides a senior-care focused solution that leverages voice command, smart technology and cloud. We improve care, lower costs, and help prevent the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries for people aged 65+, falls (ncoa.org). Learn more at Speak2Software. SurveyLine. Learn a bit more at SmartBeings.Ai

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MeMD

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Demand for Virtual Care. The pandemic pushed digital health to new heights – and there’s no going back. HIMSS 2021 State of Healthcare Report revealed nearly two-thirds of respondents prefer the convenience of virtual vs. in-person care. Virtual Primary Care Leads to Better Health. But this isn’t new news.

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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. “Clinicians were concerned about taking care of their patients, while minimizing avoidable risks,” he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

Angela Jones Angela Jones is a program manager in digital health transformation at Booz Allen Hamilton. Throughout, they have been dramatically accelerating their adoption of telehealth capabilities to circumvent physical, in-person care limitations imposed by the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

At Geisinger, the crisis has been a catalyst to accelerate digital transformation. Stametz, Geisinger's vice president of digital transformation; Karen Murphy, RN, its chief innovation officer; David Vawdrey, chief data informatics officer ; John Kravitz, c hief information officer; and Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting.

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Waracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We recently discovered how emerging technologies are driving a revolution in healthcare and asked the question: what are digital health services and technologies ? It offers the potential to not only reduce costs, but also enhance the quality of care. Today we’re exploring how the IoMT is transforming healthcare. This equates to 1.2

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 11, 2023

CarePredict Care Guide. CarePredict™, the leading AI-Powered Digital Health platform for senior care, announced today that their remote patient monitoring solution, CareGuide, was named a CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Digital Health category. provides measurement-based fall prevention. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics. Biofourmis.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Medical care is rife with discrimination on the basis of race and gender , particularly toward LGBTQ+ people. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything and Amazon voice devices everywhere. Learn more at Care Predict. Learn more at Leeo.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

But some offered innovation for patients, whether in virtual visits and care, vital sign measurement, and improvements to patient experience. Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Canary Speech. WizeCare Technologies. "At Learn more. . . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

But some offered innovation for patients, whether in virtual visits and care, vital sign measurement, and improvements to patient experience. Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Canary Speech. WizeCare Technologies. "At Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2020

Built on Texas Instrument radar technology, the API works with Essence's Care@Home senior monitoring platform, which places integrated devices and wearables around the home to track physical activity, safety, and physical or verbal panic. Essence Group Fall Detector Radar. Learn more at Zibrio.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

If there was a key trend in all of this racket, Sleep has become a tech obsession, the uptake of Digital Health is almost here, new variants of companions and assistants were pervasive, including Google Assistant inside everything and Amazon voice devices everywhere. Learn more at Care Predict. Learn more at Leeo.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

And it created a big challenge for the multiple PR firms engaged to help create that visibility to innovation in care. In addition, HIMSS is offering a digital version of HIMSS. Most people look at the lock-downs as completely sensible, preventing the spread of the virus to such a vulnerable population. million nationally.

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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. EveryDose is a digital health company committed to improving medication adherence through best-in-class technology. Learn more.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 10, 2018

Physicians and other licensed clinicians express increased frustration – no, outrage – that the electronic health records support billing, not clinical care. See the National Academy of Medicine’s Care-Centered Clinical Documentation in the Digital Environment: Solutions to Alleviate Burnout. Best ideas win.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox.

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