Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

When coronavirus cases begin to grow in early spring, health systems were forced to pivot quickly – sometimes within a matter of days – to allocate scant resources and implement new technologies and workflows. " One problem, he said, is the technology hospitals use to record medication use around health systems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In fact, 23% of respondents to a government survey had used telehealth during a 6-month period in 2021. Also for sure, the use of healthcare portals has seen increased penetration – in 2020, 60% of patients in the US were offered access to a portal, and 40% accessed their records through it. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is transforming its technology systems to create foundational change, says its chief modernization officer.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The original 2016 definition from Susann Keohane and Nicola Palmarini at IBM stated: "A network of connected objects (devices, sensors) and cognitive systems with a clear mission: to actively care for people – their physical and mental well-being, homes, loved ones…and….when And not enough workers for US nursing homes.

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

When looking at the movers and shakers in the behavioral health arena, it’s hard not to include NeuroFlow in that conversation – especially after last week’s funding boost courtesy of Concord Health Partners. The post NeuroFlow Picks Up Steam With New Growth Funding appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

You may have read this depressing article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the number of people stuck in hospitals with no place to go because there are no nursing homes to take them – which is the status in the UK’s the National Health System (NHS). That was an embarrassment in the UK – and this is a scandal in the US.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

Call for Proposals Now Open to Digital Health Startups to Compete on the CharmHealth Ecosystem PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS The fourth annual competition is designed to surface new ideas that will fundamentally improve healthcare and its underlying systems and processes. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C. CEO of CharmHealth.

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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

MARCH 22, 2023

The pressure to own a smartphone is intense, whether it is from family members for instant communication and sharing, healthcare service providers who want older adults to use tech to manage health, use Apple Pay, and even use their phone to verify access to a website. So far it is impressive. Why on earth?

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MARCH 28, 2024

Certainly ccess has improved: Ninety-five percent of Americans use the Internet and more than 80% have broadband at home. One would believe this ubiquity of access might make us hopeful that we are now in the era of tech helping consumers of all ages, no matter what task or level of knowledge. See for yourself.

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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. Cost-cutting will be a priority for hospitals in the US and globally.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. 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.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But the intriguing part of that picture is on the right side – which includes PERS and home-based sensor systems and also includes security systems, mobile/smart phones , smart speakers, and smart watches. But maybe they will all just work and be useful at every age. Drawing the AgeTech line.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. The photo underneath the star was printed from a local newspaper article showing public health and LTC staff wearing hazmat-type suits.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Since the introduction of the Apple Watch in 2014 and its subsequent sales of more than 33 million (as of 2020), Apple has been the dominant player in the US market. For the market of technology for older adults, it offered a smartwatch with built-in fall detection and other numerous health features, which it continues to introduce.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The 2022 FCC broadband progress map revealed the geographic areas of the US that lack high speed Internet access, and even if it were available, many do not go online, whether due to perceived lack of benefit, high cost, or low awareness. Technologies must be well-supported and intuitive.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Haleon is using the the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide more detailed labels on more than 1,500 of its consumer health products.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 1, 2022

Except for the deep-pocketed Medical Guardian which bought in everywhere, these were all bracelets to help emergency workers determine health issue in an emergency. The US News site was not an ad itself, but the article was filled with ads for devices. Do the perhaps-desperate users benefit from this ad-driven, affiliate structure?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

You may be one of the dwindling population ( 34% are homeowners ) who have landlines in the US (even digital phone-service based). That was an embarrassment in the UK – and this is a scandal in the US. Did you know that 60% of all phone calls in the US are robocalls or spam ? Five technologies to mitigate social isolation.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

A smart lamp that hangs on the wall and anticipates and prevents falls of residents in assisted living and nursing facilities, Aladin uses artificial intelligence (not sensors) to detect changes in motion, temperature, and more. Learn more at Domalys. CarePredict TouchPoint. Learn more at Omron. WellBe Medical Alert.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. The broken system is accelerating the growth of DPC, which saw membership across the U.S. The existing U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2022

Meta (how tiresome, we know it is Facebook) has been sending patient data from hospital systems back to Facebook (appointments, doctor, and a host of other patient-specific data) through the use of a tracking pixel. The US News site was not an ad itself, but the article was filled with ads for devices.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 30, 2018

onsider the healthcare experiences we have endured – it’s a good time to consider a new way to interact with the health system. From a technology perspective, what is each players doing to help us use our voice to have a better health and patient engagement experience ?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the over-the-counter sale of hearing aids. Also in August, a new report on the status of US broadband access was released, highlighting major expansion underway. Grandcare Systems was founded in 2004 followed by a sensor-based remote monitoring startup and consolidation wave in 2009-2010.

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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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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. Perhaps departments of health can oversee chronic healthcare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

All information is taken from the websites of the companies and the list is in alphabetical order: Because Market Incontinence Products. "Incontinence affects 25 million people in the US, and half of women over 50. Lacuna Health. "A Lacuna Health offers a proven care engagement service for patient-centered care. StoriiCare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 6, 2023

Okay, sort of safe, for already having my identity stolen due to a log-in at a health center during the Anthem breach in 2015. Use the usual searches for income, marital status, housing status, tech ownership. Go ahead – give Bing and ChatGPT a try too – for example, smartphone ownership in the US among those aged 75+.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But it is unique in its objectives – topics spanned the regulatory environment and included insights and innovations outside of the US. Through three focus areas; Active Life Mealtime and Digital care, Camanio Care wishes to support people's basic needs and increase accessibility and quality within health care." Learn more at TCare.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Integration with existing healthcare systems can be complex and require collaboration. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Affordability and access to new technologies remain a barrier for some patients.

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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. Many people do not remember much about January 1, 2000, the day all systems that stored 2-digit years would become useless calculators.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 15, 2018

So how safe are self-driving cars for us, those pesky consumers who are also the victims of this tech for tech's sake ? Digital health tech for providers and consumers, current status is bleak. We may have online access to our tests results – but only those that are from the same system. Ask yourself – how would you know?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 17, 2019

She’s a state of the art, 3D animated caregiver designed to engage aging and chronically ill clients throughout the home to supplement their care and to provide various health and safety features. She measures health performance, rewards her users for making progress, collects vitals and conducts in-home examinations." Alma Home. "By

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

Columbia Orthopaedic Group felt it was representative of its quality and reputation to create a system that improved the care it offered patients. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " MARKETPLACE. To read the special report, click here.

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