Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

Regulation shift enabling capabilities in the home and emergency funding for telehealth will persist beyond COVID. Smart tags pinpoint not only locations of phones or keys, but persons with dementia. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 7, 2023

The regulation of AI in the US – will it happen? The US government is interested in regulation, more for prevention, it seems, than to spawn innovation. See recent report: The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023 category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , Home Care , tech-enabled home care

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) also moves more care into the home – and is expected to further evolve in 2022 – regulation changes in the past year are have begun to turn the adoption tide ). category tags: home health care , smart home , IoT and home monitoring , CES 2022 , hearables/hearing technology , AgeTech.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 8, 2023

And even ChatGPT can cough up ways that AI can help in care delivery. The government has offered up an AI bill of rights and Congress is, uh, thinking over their role in regulation. Despite or because of those efforts, the odds are that AI will become ubiquitous.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Isaac Smith, Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement Specialist at Medcare MSO ASCs are types of medical facilities that are subject to stringent regulations. These laws regulate everything pertaining to ASCs, from their day-to-day operations to the manner in which they are compensated.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 20, 2022

Too often it is an afterthought or follows a completely different path based on regulations like the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. category tags: assistive technologies , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , baby boomers , Television/Smart TV. Consider accessible design – where does it fit in the design world?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 6, 2023

But constraints faced now and in coming years are beginning to emerge from public and political debates about privacy, ethics and proposed regulation. category tags: AI and machine learning , Conversational and generative AI , Mobile PERS Some say that we are in The Golden Age of AI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Traditional CIOs must deal with their fears of giving up control and realize that they cannot regulate and control access, especially to data. Region Tag: Global Edition. David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2023

And finally, to cap things off, today the big guns of the tech industry, will spend seven hours behind closed doors discussing how to regulate AI. category tags: Family caregivers , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AI and machine learning , AgeTech Five innovations to benefit older adults and their care providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Patients love it and doctors are coming around on the idea that these messages can actually save them time since then they don’t have to play phone tag with the patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office. And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially. This is due in part to U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2019

Regulation of home design to sustain independence? Regulation of cognitive training programs? category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging technology. And in 2018, telehealth reimbursement programs accelerated , with Medicare Advantage reimbursement expected in 2020. None detected. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 12, 2018

The FDA wants you to understand that it regulates hearing aids – which it defines as helping the medical condition of hearing loss. Or are they hearing aids in disguise because the FDA does not currently regulate them? category tags: hearing loss. Recreational ? And Consumer Reports calls them ‘hearing helpers.’

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

What were the top issues early in the year? " Challenges facing nursing homes serving primarily long-stay residents covered by Medicaid; workforce challenges , which are unlikely to dissipate; nursing home regulations; and the growing popularity of Medicare Advantage.". category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2022

Many think this is an easy problem to solve, just slap a security tag on the data, but it is a much bigger systems-engineering problem. I understand from a discussion on FHIR chat that there are countries that have regulations. So, at this point we have a tag that says the data is either subject-to-embargo , or not-subject-to-embargo.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

Meanwhile, a wave of nursing home ‘transparency’ directives emerges from CMS , the nursing home regulator. category tags: Seniors , SNF , senior living. Most important? Identifying which nursing homes had Covid-19 cases.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 3, 2019

Regulation of home design to sustain independence? Regulation of cognitive training programs? category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging technology. And in 2018, telehealth reimbursement programs accelerated , with Medicare Advantage reimbursement expected in 2020. None detected. .

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Lawsuits to enforce these regulations have hit many companies. Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. ” (page 32 of the PDF). The tools are doing better, though.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

Meanwhile over in Congress and ‘government oversight’, self-driving car regulations were loosened in July, enabling federal safety regulations to override those of states. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , aging in place. Self-driving cars – Not yet for older adults or anyone else. And why is that? Read more. .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

It also features ITRI's LPMS (Low Power Microwave Sensor) technology, which passed the FDA-level electromagnetic wave radiation EMC/EMI test by the IEC60601-1/IEC60606-2 regulation." category tags: CES 2021 , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , Mobile PERS , hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology. Learn more at ITRI.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In July, Tim Cook apparently did not want to get into the world of FDA regulation. category tags: Mobile PERS , wearables, smart watch. When Apple announces, industries listen. Last week they announced two features of a new watch, ECG monitoring and fall detection. Well, that was then – or he just wasn’t saying.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

FDA regulations are to be delivered by August, 2020, though Bose was permitted to offer a product that will likely be the first officially FDA-approved on the market, though this audiologist’s article makes that prospect seem worrisome. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , seniors and aging policy.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 5, 2020

What were the top issues early in the year? " Challenges facing nursing homes serving primarily long-stay residents covered by Medicaid; workforce challenges , which are unlikely to dissipate; nursing home regulations; and the growing popularity of Medicare Advantage.". category tags: SNF , Seniors , Aging , healthcare , covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 21, 2018

Meanwhile over in Congress and ‘government oversight’, self-driving car regulations were loosened in July, enabling federal safety regulations to override those of states. category tags: vehicle/transportation technology-services , seniors and aging policy , Aging. What problems are self-driving cars supposed to address?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2018

The FDA wants you to understand that it regulates hearing aids – which it defines as helping the medical condition of hearing loss. category tags: hearing loss , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Seniors , dementia care. Recreational?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In July, Tim Cook apparently did not want to get into the world of FDA regulation. category tags: healthcare , Seniors , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. When Apple announces, industries crane their necks to hear. Last week they announced two features of a new watch, ECG monitoring and fall detection. Read more here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

More to come in 2019, including changes in state regulations and seniors with hearing loss AND smartphones can benefit from making adjustments through the phone itself, including smartphone ringer heard with the worn hearing aids. Hearing technology got an upgrade and a lower price.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

HIPAA regulations. When you automate your phone system, patients spend less time waiting on hold and playing phone tag. The layers of automation required depend on the number of steps, systems, and protocols that your staff, specifically, must navigate to handle patient calls, including: Complex operating procedures.

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ACA Times

AUGUST 31, 2017

Under the Further Regulating Employer Contributions To Health Care bill, starting in 2018, the employer medical assistance contribution (EMAC) to MassHealth will increase from $55 to $77 per employee. The post MassHealth Changes Come With A Hefty Price Tag For Employers first appeared on The ACA Times.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

Challenges facing nursing homes serving primarily long-stay residents covered by Medicaid; workforce challenges , which are unlikely to dissipate; nursing home regulations; and the growing popularity of Medicare Advantage." What were the top issues early in the year? 65 is the new 85 – Covid-19 cultivates elements of ageism.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2018

Operation that would provide capability and response to Individual "Right to Erasure" Article 17 NOTE that Erasure does not override other regulated reasons to keep the data. Thus Medical Records are not subject to Erasure. Erasure affects all data, not just FHIR data Identity must be confirmed.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Nipro Diagnostics is trumpeting its True Metrix Self-monitoring blood glucose system and its True Metrix PRO Professional Monitoring blood glucose system for also allowing users to tag their readings to pre-meal and post-meal readings to see how different foods affect numbers. Once attached, it’s good for 14 days, according to the company.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Clearly this is a company with management issues – and someday will either fail (unlikely), be broken up , or be regulated , even in the US, which has for some unknown reason done nothing to date, unlike privacy actions taken in Europe. category tags: Voice First/AI technology , mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , CES 2019.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 29, 2018

Such as the many FHIR open source projects ; Standard Interpretation of Regulation -- like HHS/ONC has done with for example the use of email with patients ; and Laws and Regulations -- we all hope for as few regulations as possible, but sometimes they are needed. Data-Tagging? Authentication? Provenance? Obligations?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In July, Tim Cook apparently did not want to get into the world of FDA regulation. category tags: Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants , aging in place , seniors and aging policy , tech-enabled home care. When Apple announces, industries crane their necks to hear. Well, that was then – or he just wasn’t saying. Don't laugh, though.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Key issues facing the industry in 2019 and into the next few years range from regulation of dietary supplements and the role of CBD in self-care, the omni-channel consumer, ecommerce vs. bricks-and-mortar, trust, and wrestling with consumer privacy. Nishat noted that the “death of television” discussed in mass media is highly over-rated.

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ACA Times

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Signed by Governor Charlie Baker in August of 2017, “An Act Further Regulating Employer Contributions To Health Care” went into effect in January. The post Masshealth Changes Come With a Hefty Price Tag For Employers [UPDATE] first appeared on The ACA Times. For questions about the ACA contact us here.

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