Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This past year underscored the demographic changes that have brought an aging population -- turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day -- into the sight lines of investors, startups and health providers. Butlr Care. "Butlr, a leading provider of anonymous people-sensing technology, today announced the availability of Butlr Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers? Silver Cloud is a behavioural health company that has developed digital care models equivalent to face-to-face encounters.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 24, 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. category tags: senior living , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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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. category tags: senior living , homecare , SNF , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. There is a labor shortage everywhere -- ditto in senior care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 10, 2024

With so many entrants in the AgeTech, accessibility and health categories seeking visibility and possible global reach. And there are numerous separate focal points for tech for older adults (see Samsung Health House ) and a CTA Foundation Pitch Competition. MindMics Heart Health System. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 21, 2021

According to Gartner’s January 2021 forecast , this was driven by increased consumer interest in tracking their health status during the pandemic (smart watches) and the growth of remote work (purchases and upgrades to headphones and ear-warn devices). Wearables are increasingly providing health status signals, some useful, some not.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 29, 2022

Along came a gaggle of gadgets for the wrist, including Medical Guardian’s, but also Verizon’s Care Smart watch – teen-focused and largely disliked by reviewers, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 with fall detection , the Garmin Lily (with fall detection) , HandsFree Health Smartwatch , BestBuy Lively app for Apple Watch , UnaliWear Kanega , and many more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 17, 2023

These future systems would offer vital signs monitoring and be integrated with health applications – and even health systems. The wearables improved and so did cameras and room sensing. category tags: Mobile PERS , fall prevention, fall detection , Remote monitoring , AI and machine learning Are we there yet?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Because of the combination of sensing technology with in-person, the cost of care will be more closely aligned with what families and organizations should or can afford. And moving forward, who is likely to fall, in senior living, but also in home health and private duty home care settings. . Cost of care will be rightsized.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 18, 2018

Voice First is changing health and wellness offerings today. And AARP and Optum have initiated pilots to determine if this technology can help mitigate social isolation among the elderly and improve health outcomes. But there are experiments and pilots for using Voice First technologies for health and wellness applications.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

LeadingAge) "EchoCare, founded in 2015, has developed the Elderly Care Home Observer (ECHO) system, a unique sensing system for the care of the elderly during their stay at home. OrbitaAssist is an award-winning, voice-enabled, AI-driven bedside virtual health assistant. Learn more at Curadite. Learn more at ?mcare. Orbita Assist.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The IoT technology and location sensors behind RTLS feature active-radio frequency identification (RFID) badges and tags to offer immediate enterprise visibility into the precise location of equipment, colleagues, or patients, while increasing workflow efficiencies. For more information visit centrak.com

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

And, the Covid-19 crisis is highlighting some advantages that small-home communities may enjoy, in being able to maintain a greater sense of normalcy in day-to-day activities.” category tags: robotics , Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , social isolation , covid-19. Learn more at: Senior Living News. Holiday Retirement and MeMD.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 7, 2019

How do wearables contribute to health and wellbeing of older adults? Or to put the question another way, what is it that these devices do that can help maintain or improve health, noting that 32% of baby boomers today get no exercise whatsoever , according to the CDC. Was it the coolness of the Apple Watch?

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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. There seems to be a growing number of tech offerings that can see, sense, detect, and learn about behavioral patterns as part of new tools for older adults and their caregivers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Perhaps there is an unrelated health issue, and they're concerned about whether he/she is taking medications correctly or making it to medical appointments. Private health websites, managing medications. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. Needs of the Middle stage. Tech Categories. Care coordination. Memory care.

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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. But for a disease free quality of life in their later years, they will they need to fix lifestyle and health issues that did not characterize their parents. Digital health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

November revealed a growing sense of urgency about older adults. Worse, for many older adults, isolation is a worsening health issue that we will hear more about as shutdowns continue and shut-in becomes the virtual norm. What has been the impact on them of the daily onslaught of Covid-19 statistics? Read more. . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50.5% -- during the same period." No wonder it makes more sense to talk to it. category tags: hearables/hearing technology , computers, broadband, and social networking , fall prevention, fall detection. Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly saw a 34.4%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

Here are six technologies (alphabetical order) entering the space – information is drawn from firm websites: Handsfree Health. HandsFree Health's WellBe, is a secure, HIPAA compliant in-home voice-activated device that speaks when spoken to. Learn more at Handsfree Health. Results-driven AI technology designed for memory care.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Within five years, predictive, proactive and adaptive smart home solutions that support health and wellbeing, comfort and safety, and engagement and entertainment will emerge to meet the needs of older adults, including subscription-based services that are integrated with wearables.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 31, 2018

And gee whiz, one of the uses is pathway lighting to find the bathroom – presumably replacing motion-sensing night lights for $7.97 And also health statistics do not lie. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , Aging , smart home , Voice First/AI technology. from Walmart.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 18, 2018

So the question is, do pilots make sense, or is this construct simply an excuse for inadequate research and poor specifications of actual requirements? category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , senior living , home health care , entrepreneurship.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

To meet those demands, organizations should prioritize the creation of convenient digital-first environments that satisfy all parties involved in providing health care services. Patients, medical personnel, operations staff, and insurance companies all expect a first-rate experience when dealing with your enterprise.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2019

For those who see a wearable in a health context, they may be disappointed to know that their doctor doesn’t seem to care or know what to do with your heart rhythm data. We have grown increasingly dependent on GPS Location-tracking as part of mapping and directions, trusting it sometimes over common sense.

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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 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. " MARKETPLACE. To read the special report, click here.

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Waracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The IoMT ( Internet of Medical Things ) enables these devices to collect, interpret and disseminate health data via the cloud and it’s predicted that within the next ten years the number of connected medical devices across the world could exceed 50 billion. Today we’re exploring how the IoMT is transforming healthcare.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are a member of S4PM , perhaps it was at CES or HIMSS or Health 2.0 If such a scene is familiar, then perhaps a few prompts might also frame a picture that lets you walk with me in the virtual sense down some halls at a healthcare conference in Quebec. or a MedX or a TedMed event.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2022

A couple retiring in 2022 should budget $315,000 to cover their health care costs in retirement, based on the 21st annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate from Fidelity Investments. 61,776 for a home health aide, and $59,488 for homemaker services, and. For context, note that the median sales price of a home in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

I was behind as usual, and I could sense the frustration in the air from my patients who had been waiting for a while. But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

At the beginning of the month, it made sense to publish a Market Overview about tech for older adults that did not link all tech to Covid-19, and by the end of the month every single news item, announced business initiative, innovation consortia, startup messaging, project, and technology topic was only about Covid-19. Read more. .

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