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Four factors underpin AI potential in health and home care

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The last-ditch choices will be emergency room visit or long wait for a doctor visit. P atient burnout is a growing issue – long waits, short appointments, large bills, pushing people towards telehealth interactions as a first step. Consider changes that have taken place in recent years that will drive growth in apps for self-care.

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New report: AI and the Future of Care Work 2023

Aging in Place Technology Watch

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit.

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Monitoring at home will be the norm for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. 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.

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Telehealth, HIPAA compliance and innovation tracking

Aging in Place Technology Watch

This is the breakthrough push that the healthcare industry -- notably providers – needed to accelerate telehealth adoption. Consider the scenario noted here which sounds helpful: “a patient with diabetes wouldn’t have to postpone a regular follow-up visit with the doctor to keep safe — he or she could do it via Skype.”

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After Covid-19, When the Care Recipient is Elsewhere, What?s Next for Technology?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In addition, telehealth usage has skyrocketed, with virtual doctor visits expected by Forrester Research to top 1 billion by years end. After decades of pushing the telehealth rock uphill, the market value of individual firms, like Livongo , has skyrocketed. A technology transformation is underway, greater than the sum of its parts.

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So, about this “big data” thing …

Society for Participatory Medicine

She tagged a number of other members (and non). Today, outgoing SPM board members Peter Elias and I were among those tagged. On Facebook last Friday our member Carla Berg Nelson posted briefly about a new Psychology Today blog post, Data: the New Window into Humanity , by John Nosta. Research and data didn’t exist.

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Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. 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. One might assume that post-Covid census data will be even more significant.