Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 1, 2024

The ForbesHealth survey about aging in place may reveal a market opportunity for local tech service providers to message/market their ‘aging well’ offerings, including home networks that enable telehealth, in-home fall detection and remote safety and health monitoring. Staying home and obtaining care costs more and more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Collaboration is key in vendor selection. Times of challenge bring change.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

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. Medical practices are now offering choices to patients – in person or telehealth ? But a number of these changes are likely permanent.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges.

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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. SafelyYou Insight. “ With SafelyYou-Insight™ services, your community gains access to clinical fall expertise.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed. In fact, 23% of respondents to a government survey had used telehealth during a 6-month period in 2021. Consider that the median costs of long-term care are higher than ever.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Telehealth is critical – build capability now. " Actions you can take now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. These networks profit the people they serve. Strategically speaking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

For the past two days, it’s apparent that the seemingly forever slow growth of telehealth adoption has entered a new, “When can I have that? But the interest and use of telehealth in senior living has been accelerating since April 2019, when Medicare Advantage plans began covering it. You’re ready for telehealth, having used Skype.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Nor are they telehealth-ready – where 36% of Americans do not have high-speed internet in the home. For low-income individuals, home and community based services may have a 3-year wait to obtain them. category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living In what year?

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Telehealth 62

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care is now available nationwide. category tags: AgeTech , AI and machine learning , home health care , IoT and home monitoring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Approximately half of the older adult population has a smart TV – a common platforms used to stream Internet services without an associated specialty box like Apple TV , Roku or Chromecast. S altbox TV a free streaming service dedicated to connecting older adults with diverse, informative, and engaging programming. Saltbox TV. "S

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Hospitals will also lobby hard to receive revenues from telehealth services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. Teladoc reported that total visits rose 92%, from 1,063,000 to 2,045,000 in the past quarter.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

Note the wave of announcements of 'free' tech services and sea changes. If your firm is in the remote care/caregiving space (health, telehealth, engagement), please comment or email and I will add to this list. Home health care and home care – what are they doing?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 12, 2022

In-home care, home health care , remote patient monitoring (RPM) , fall detection , and other services that help older adults age in their homes are critical. Regulation shift enabling capabilities in the home and emergency funding for telehealth will persist beyond COVID. Disruptions in the hearing technology market will persist.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2 Looking beyond COVID-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. Healthcare delivery is migrating away from hospitals. Tech will assist work in home and home healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With job turnover and shortages, care-related services now see the opportunity of AI chatbots, machine learning, and predictive analytics to mitigate some of the staff-related challenges they face. Virtual sitters with telehealth support are replacing the in-person in-hospital 24x7 monitoring of at-risk patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Portable devices and wearable intelligence: Gadgets that can track physical activity, detect falls, or alert emergency services 1 2. Portable devices and wearable intelligence are gadgets that can track physical activity, detect falls, or alert emergency services for older adults.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

This past week offers updates to services, policy, and practice. Expect more announcements moving forward, but matching reimbursement for telehealth with in-person visits was a big deal. Senior living companies are readying telehealth services (see Holiday Retirement ) and no doubt more will follow. If not now, when?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 10, 2022

The perfect storm has arrived to drive tech adoption in the home and care services. So many factors converge now that were highlighted during the pandemic – consider the need for telehealth services as an alternative to in-person visits. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. That is a sign.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 11, 2020

The hardware is used to tag objects and monitor their use. Tembo.Health. " Tembo.Health, funded at least in part by Primetime Partners , a new aging-focused VC firm, is a p rovider of telemedicine services intended to connect patients with specialty services like psychiatry and cardiology, including those in nursing homes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Care-related service organizations are taking a closer look at technologies that could help them cope more effectively with staffing shortages and other issues. Other vendors are now offering voice-enabled PERS services. Health and wellness. Learning and contribution.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 12, 2022

In-home healthcare services will persist and expand. Telehealth services will remain to replace or supplement in person visits likely throughout 2022, and Dispatch Health’s in-home urgent care service is now available nationwide. The dream of reimbursement for remote care is a reality.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. But evidence is growing for telehealth and a more remote health monitoring tools, some undergoing scrutiny by the FDA. from Deloitte. One in two U.S.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2022

In our last two posts, we talked about how to identify your telehealth grant funding needs and provided an overview of the four main types of grant funding sources. Now that you’re equipped with the correct information, your organization can begin a more informed search for telehealth grant funding opportunities.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“Launch of secure, cloud-based service to provide a better option for people to store and share important documents.Clocr is hosted in the cloud, so users can trust that their information is encrypted and preserved with access only given to contacts and guardians approved by the account holder. Learn more at HandsFree Health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Telehealth visits? And we have never seen a world in which the ‘connections’ to everything -- services, shopping, learning about new products, listening to music, meeting people, talking to a doctor -- are all made through an alphabet soup of technology, delivered from almost monopoly-like tech firms from Amazon to Zoom. .

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Telehealth 140

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

September 04, 2023 Sponsored Closing the gap: Organizations move to telepsychiatry and hybrid therapy to expand mental health services Various organizations have explored telepsychiatry and hybrid group therapy to offer more options.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Homethrive provides 24 x 7 digital and human concierge services and expert coaching from certified Homethrive social workers. Homethrive’s program generates personalized recommendations and services -- supporting independence, reducing social isolation, and lessening the stress and workload for family members supporting aging parents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines.

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