Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base. and much of the world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2023

Finally, more people are doing self-diagnosis with the support of AI chatbots. Over time, non-medical home care organizations will see AI as a means of improving care management and service to recipients. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , AI and machine learning , AgeTech , healthcare

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

News Working together to promote self-health management in APAC This HIMSS22 Asia-Pacific conference speaker envisions a future where digital technologies enable. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed By HIMSS TV | August 16, 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. The future will see chronic disease being managed more from homes and physicians' offices than in a hospital setting.

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EMR FHIR Telehealth Leadership 147

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Expect hearables to further evolve; over-the-counter hearing aid purchases to be FDA-legitimized; retail and at-home self-service/self-fitting services expand (further enabled as a result of Covid-19), individuals with hearing loss may opt in to improving what they can hear in home and when out and about.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Layla McCay ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an old proverb proving true as health services across the world race to adapt to manage the challenges of the current coronavirus pandemic. Countries like Singapore and South Korea have also adopted interesting contact tracing tools.

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Primary Care Interoperability Health Data Telehealth 153

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 29, 2022

The role of a geriatric care manager seemed critical just to understand terminology and options. Probably the most important first step as parents and family members age is to self-educate about options. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , senior living.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

State Governors, particularly those trying to manage the pandemic in states located on the two coasts, had issued shelter-in-place orders. The word “fragile” resonated due to the growing understanding that the lockdown would lead to growing mental health issues for many of us in self-quarantine. M is for mask.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2024

Listen to the manager at a McDonald’s describe his distaste for the kiosk menu process. Perhaps there is an ‘ empathy gap ’ with self-service kiosks? Restaurants and health facility check-in are but two examples. Watch the customers at a bakery avoid the two kiosks to wait to place their orders with a server.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

This was echoed by Gregory who noted that many nurses in the UK were self-isolating due to a lack of testing, putting further strain on the already stretched frontline. Similarities in cross-border community challenges. More than 35,000 health workers have been infected (of which 60% were nurses), particularly in the elderly care home sector.

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Nursing Mental health Interoperability Telemedicine 167

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. Hold brainstorming sessions with leaders, managers, and employees who have a vesting interest in resolving existing problems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

The Quantified Self , coined in 2007 as a fringe concept , is now mainstream and migrating rapidly into personal health management. category tags: wearables, smart watch , Technology - AARP. Wearables are increasingly providing health status signals, some useful, some not. More when there’s more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

"Curadite empowers patients, clinicians, caregivers and family members to work together to improve medication adherence with the support of our intelligently linked, proactive medication management platform. mcare is far more than a pill sorting system with self-reported validation. Bring simplicity to your life." Learn more at ?mcare.

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Nursing 124

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. Maybe technology-based changes could help with management, family visibility/oversight, and tracking of quality in between inspections.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

The visibility of Facebook management issues and Google competitive quagmire may actually be good for consumers. Expect to see much more about this from the FDA – and for older adults to hear better at a lower, self-service purchase price. The buzz about self-driving cars has faded since early 2018.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Of management?) , drop certain development efforts , or perhaps they just feel compelled to keep up with everyone else who is downsizing and don’t want to be left out. Consider this understatement from Jennifer Kent of Parks: "Consumers clearly desire a self-help approach first but need more effective tools to solve the problems on their own."

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Then Gary looked forward at the evolution of self-care – the theme of this year’s annual conference. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. In contrast, healthcare excluding nutritionals grew only 1.5%.

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BioTech Life Science Leadership Medicare 149

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If their loved one is hesitant, a self-assessment could be used to encourage a visit to a professional. Private health websites, managing medications. Wander management. Medication management. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. Tech Categories. Care coordination. CaringBridge , CareZone.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

ixlayer launched self-testing kits for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function. Patient relationship management platform Equiva unveiled its Connected Home Health Hub. NextGen received 2015 Edition Cures Update Health IT certification for its NextGen Office EHR and practice management software.

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Medical Billing Mental health EHR Healthcare IT 86

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Today’s patients want seamless, holistic, and reliable health care access, self-service, and communication. They want to manage their own health affairs online—with a click or a swipe—much like they buy goods on Amazon, order transportation on Uber, or book a hotel room on Expedia. Providers are feeling the squeeze.

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Telehealth EHR Patient Experience HIPAA 66

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 30, 2018

None of the tech referencing dementia care tackles the disorientation, wandering and self-care decline of actual dementia. Medication dispensing tech has been around forever – and must be managed by someone who knows what the dosages should be. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , dementia care , social isolation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 23, 2018

Says Jim Osborn, Quality of Life Technology Center, now at Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse : 'Technology should self-adjust to your mode of interaction – based on how you have used the device.'. Cloud-based: functionality separated from interface, centralized privacy management. Multi-modal device interaction.

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Life Science 67

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 13, 2020

MediPense RxPense. " RxPense self-programs up to 2 weeks’ scheduled doses and ensures only the right senior can take the right medications at the right time. category tags: medication management , covid-19 , social isolation , computers, internet and social networking. Learn more at HeroHealth. Learn more at PillPack. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

Think about the growth in kiosks and self-service across multiple categories. Tech-enabled home care was a venture capital bust -- but imagine, turning to one failure and giving them more money to manage tech for the rest. category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But the benefits of technology may not just be related to disease management and lifestyle. More effective chronic disease management; alerting care providers; Dementia care. Engagement, cognitive, wander management wearables. Self-testing websites, OTC hearing aids, amplifiers/hearables. Digital health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. To read the special report, click here.

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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. Um, thanks. No Calibration Needed.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 17, 2019

Instead, vendors will create health condition-specific offerings for chronic disease management or assistive technologies that cross all age ranges. Too often market research can be self-fulfilling prophecy. category tags: Aging technology , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , smartphones, cell phones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories. ” How virtual care technology helps telehealth managers cope.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

In the remote monitoring space, the clinician community’s lack of confidence in the quality of data, especially self-monitored and patient-reported data, was a challenge despite the obvious benefits of managing large chronic populations through connected devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Geisinger needed a way to capture self-reported information from patients, visitors and vendors that provided actions to staff that supported system policies. This allowed managers to effectively monitor their direct reports and ensure appropriate guidelines are followed when employees screen positive for symptoms.

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Leadership Community practice Primary Care Telemedicine 113

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Self-triaging and contact tracing for COVID-19 infection detection are among the new breed of digital health applications that startups to big firms alike were looking at to seize the emerging opportunities. My work with healthcare enterprises suggests that 80-90% of all outpatient visits could become "virtualized" in some way.

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Telehealth Digital Health Interoperability Public Health 212

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The vendor’s technology is used for physiologic monitoring of patients with a variety of needs, including chronic care management and post-hospital discharge recovery. Current Health offers an AI-enabled remote patient management platform. Current Health. The platform also is designed for direct-to-patient telemedicine.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

Amid the outcry, the negative comments about bad management, bad physical design of the buildings, bad for-profit ownership, bad Covid-19 testing, etc., When the customer does not advocate for self. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Half of these women have no close relatives.

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Nursing 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

Amid the outcry, the negative comments about bad management, bad physical design of the buildings, bad for-profit ownership, bad Covid-19 testing, etc., When the customer does not advocate for self. category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Half of these women have no close relatives.

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Nursing 111

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Created after the founder noticed a loved one struggling with medication management, EveryDose's AI-powered platform helps patients stay on track with their medications while driving lower costs, better outcomes, and higher quality measures for healthcare stakeholders. Furthermore, it is fully self-driving with smart navigation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2019

Self-service increasingly matters in unexpected health categories. This is exciting new technology that will be hassle free for the user while providing superior sound quality and app control that makes the hearing aid easy to manage in any setting.” As with nearly every ‘service’, we want to serve ourselves, no matter what.

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