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Policy action on aging and technology – let's expect results

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Online services and protection from scams and fraud? Nope – scams and fraud cost seniors $37 billion per year – and while banks have made efforts – and a 2018 law enables reporting of suspected fraud, there is a ways to go to protect seniors from financial exploitation – which saw a 12% increase in 2018.

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Policy action on aging and technology – then and now

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Online services and protection from scams and fraud? Nope – scams and fraud cost seniors $37 billion per year – and while banks have made efforts – and a 2018 law enables reporting of suspected fraud, there is a ways to go to protect seniors from financial exploitation – which saw a 12% increase in 2018.

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We are the guinea pigs in cars and online

Aging in Place Technology Watch

As for consumers, 82% do not use telehealth, explaining why patient depart hospitals with CDs of the medical record. Note the trend towards Do-It-Yourself Fraud controls – turning off your credit or debit card from your phone. We may have online access to our tests results – but only those that are from the same system.

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How health IT's leading innovators are using AI now, and where they see it going

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By Andrea Fox | August 02, 2023 News At UMich, AI-based fraud, waste and abuse system aims to cut costs and protect patients Dr. Mohammed Saeed from the University of Michigan Medical School discusses how the artificial. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement

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Ten Years – Technology for Older Adults – 2009-2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Telehealth got its first big workout with veterans in 2007. Finally, a new and unpleasant context has emerged – misuse, abuse of information about and for seniors, senior fraud , and the failure of background checking by trusted sources. . category tags: IoT and home monitoring , PERS , social media , cell phones, smartphones.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.