Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS. But a number of these changes are likely permanent.

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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. Perhaps departments of health can oversee chronic healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 10, 2023

From the findings; One of the media-fueled risks today with the plethora of AI-related hype is the tendency to find and publicize deficiencies and mistakes, reinforcing the premise that it is too early for benefits across industries like senior living or home care. With growing usage of AI technology, numerous ethical questions are emerging.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. Is it still likely that pull cords are still the only mechanism in many rooms in the most expensive communities for a resident to reach the front desk in an emergency?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. It feels like every company has a health cloud offering these days. Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The setup includes your ‘emergency contacts’ acquired from your Medical ID, assuming you have Wrist Detection turned on. And perhaps you have also turned on the Health app (somewhere) and entered your birthdate. We do not know much about Apple’s public response to older adults. category tags: wearables, smart watch.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

With all the publicity about terrible conditions in the nation’s nursing homes, states and the federal government are galvanized into some self-protective and resident-protective actions. Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. Most important?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. "Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This remains true, said researchers from the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, even after adjusting for age, comorbidities and preferred language. "While telehealth has many benefits, especially during a global pandemic, it may create and/or exacerbate health disparities," wrote the research team.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Philips launched its own Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) offering in 2005 through the acquisition of Lifeline Systems and gave up 16 years later, selling it to Connect America. Consider Optum’s acquisition of Amedisys home health business. It is perpetuated in associations , venture capital and public policy lobbying.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I would continue to recommend that anyone or any-system publishing health data such as FHIR resources, FHIR documents, and CDA documents should use "N", unless they have evidence to say that is the wrong value. So using this automated form on publication time might produce wrong evaluation overtime. for "_confidentiality".

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"Receiving reproductive health care, including early pregnancy termination care, through telehealth is no different." " The vast majority of patients choose to have their follow-up virtually, said McNicholas, although they do have the option to visit a health center in person.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

Not the Emergency-Room use-case. The Emergency-Room tends to focus on stabilizing the patient and this can often be done in complete absence of historic data. Further when data are available, the clinicians in the Emergency-Room tend to already be operating at elevated privilege. Used only by authorized users.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay. A second wave of digital transformation?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

All text is from public media. As the population aged 65+ exceed 54 million, trends emerge. AARP Public Policy research in 2013 revealed a future crisis in availability of people to care for an aging population (“You take care of Mom, but who will take care of you?”). All are worth a look. You may remember.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Meanwhile, the labor shortage has impacted every aspect of senior care, requiring a rethink of financial health of the businesses and the role of technology. And we know that older adults, some not online, are an afterthought when new emergency processes are created.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2009, there were specialized email services that converted an online message into paper form; WiFi in seniors’ homes or senior living residences was rare; the mobile PERS offerings were just a concept; the iPad had not been announced; Digital Health was three years away; and Voice First offerings would not appear for another five years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Those language barriers can discourage patients from making appointments and addressing their health concerns, as well as those of their children. “Parents who did not have paid time off or sick days could not afford to take a day off and address the health concerns of themselves and/or their children. THE PROBLEM.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Public-private partnerships are forming to bring devices and products to older adults, now isolated for as much as 9 months. So 2020 was a year that produced 5 white papers and three long research reports emerge – normally not feasible with so much here-and-there travel. What about nine months of ceaseless updates about case counts?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 5, 2018

AARP Foundation , and Libertana Home Health , WebMD. And new entrants are emerging to tackle Voice First in healthcare – see Suki’s recent raise of $20 million – perhaps hoping to beat Amazon to the behemoth’s own healthcare punch. category tags: voice/AI technology , senior living. or Answers by Cigna.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, for those who are intent on hairsplitting over definitions, Apple Pay is Techfin – that is, FinTech from a traditional provider, rather than a unicorn – a startup that emerged outside of the traditional tech market. Golden gives you the tools and resources to guide you in improving your parent's financial health.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 15, 2015

authorized for wide distribution – like an emergency-data-set, or for dietary use-cases "L", because the content is not medical, or has been de-identified "U", because the content is not specific to an individual and is public This is right out of the definition of the vocabulary values 2.16.840.1.113883.5.25 for "_confidentiality".

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Mental health integration: Addressing the strong link between chronic pain and mental health conditions like anxiety and depression for improved overall well-being.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. On the other hand, Leading Age CEO was 'enraged' about shortages of PPE. Go back to 2019, for just a moment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Emergency Preparedness ASCs must have a CMS-approved emergency plan. ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. He holds several AAPC specialty certifications and has a bachelor’s degree in Health Administration. Future Medicare reimbursement will be denied to ASCs that fail to report.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Happy New Year – and onward to 2020, the publication of the now-completed Voice, Health and Wellbeing 2020 on Monday, January 6 th , and so many more (and counted) CES steps -- more wearables, virtual experiences, smart and not-so-smart speakers. We are attending again this year – and I cannot imagine what is left to say, so to speak.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

And investors have regularly run screaming from the ‘older adult’ category, preferring to view the whole bucket as ‘health’. Still not clear why an Uber driving itself is better than a Lyft or Uber with a driver – unless it is the well-publicized incidents about Uber drivers. What technology matters for older adults? Feb, 2018).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. Creating emergency telehealth centers.

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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. " Dr. Bradley Crotty, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network. " Dr. Lisa R. Bardack, CareMount Medical.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

 Each month, Avizia will provide a recap of the latest industry news and public policy updates on issues impacting the use and deployment of telemedicine. Hear from a health law expert as he breaks down the variances in telehealth policy and looks at what the future holds. Below are excerpts from that interview.

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