Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The growth of the sensor market has created an opportunity for more focus on smart clothing, which has been around a long time, including for use in dementia care , but may have its greatest utility ahead. Siren Care. "An injury-detecting sock could help people with diabetes prevent amputations. Learn more. Myant Health. Learn more.

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JULY 19, 2023

For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. Data has always mattered for delivering good care, but hurdles were great.

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JULY 21, 2023

The care continuum that serves older adults is an ignored reality. The stove-piping of care-related services is a myth. Examples: Some believe family caregivers are a standalone entity that does not use care services. Or that home care a parallel universe to senior living. Or they move loved ones to senior living.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

New progress for dementia care. Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. TaprootElla. “

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 11, 2023

CarePredict Care Guide. CarePredict™, the leading AI-Powered Digital Health platform for senior care, announced today that their remote patient monitoring solution, CareGuide, was named a CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Digital Health category. All information is from press releases or the company websites. Learn more.

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Clear Arch Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

2024 got off to an auspicious and promising start for the everyone vested in promoting telehealth and remote patient monitoring as viable solutions to advancing health equity and providing high-quality care to rural and geographically isolated U.S. citizens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2022

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. Home care vs. assisted living – the demand is for home care. Hospitals continue to close , especially in rural areas. Acute care delivery at home for Medicare recipients has been endorsed by the American Hospital Association – and bills supporting it may pass.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

SenSights TM is designed to help home healthcare agencies develop a more thorough care plan for seniors while effectively managing their resources." Vayyar’s intelligent sensors monitor location, posture and vital signs, enabling behavioral monitoring such as time spent at rest, in and out of bed, nocturnal roaming and restroom visits.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. But home care agencies can offer private pay RPM services. RPM gained big momentum during 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers. In the inherently human realm of healthcare, errors are an unfortunate reality.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Companies emerged or announced updates addressing dementia care. The concept of an AI Caregiver to augment limited staffing took on new significance as the crisis in care work worsened throughout the year. RubyWell helps all family caregivers save and make money, so you can regain financial stability and focus on caring.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

But some offered innovation for patients, whether in virtual visits and care, vital sign measurement, and improvements to patient experience. Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Canary Speech. WizeCare Technologies. "At Learn more. . . .

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In November, a long report (the third of 2020 ) called The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults was published, the result of 30 interviews with executives from organizations large and very small. Now, we’re bringing transformative technology to one of the most needed, fastest-growing markets — home care." GetSetUp.io

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Trends worth noting about care work. Turnover is highest in the lowest-paid care positions – home care is at a high point at 77% as of 2022. Pressure is growing in senior living to ‘keep people well’ in conjunction with a higher level of acuity of care needs. What will drive innovation in care?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

But some offered innovation for patients, whether in virtual visits and care, vital sign measurement, and improvements to patient experience. Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Canary Speech. WizeCare Technologies. "At Learn more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Care workers – it’s not a shortage – it’s a crisis. People who need care workers will tell you – the media will tell you, and the industry will tell you. From the national home care associations , a report in March: “The workforce shortage in home-based care has reached crisis proportions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. This is an opportunity for CIOs to shine and lead the way in developing a set of tools that can deliver care anywhere, anytime. Virtual care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

"MedSign’s flagship product Qortex is the first TV-based telehealth platform that virtually connects hospitals, medical professionals, home care agencies and pharmaceutical companies with their patients 24/7, enabling real-time video, voice, and vital sign monitoring all in the comfort and safety of home. UniperCare.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Previously limited categories expand to span multiple remote care services. Lots of chatter is underway this week about Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring, remote care technologies for senior living (where no visitors are allowed). category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. If not now, when?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

All the relevant regulators like Dubai Health Authority (DHA), Dubai Healthcare City Authority and their key senior members, as well as the aforementioned key governmental and private stakeholders play a vital part in this collaborative effort of ensuring sufficient capacity and unified testing and treatment protocols.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spread across the United States this spring, the demand for telehealth skyrocketed in turn – as did concerns about patient access to virtual care. Black and Latino patients had higher adjusted odds of using either the ER or office visits versus telehealth than either white or Asian patients. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Biofourmis’ remote patient monitoring and AI-based analytics technology, Biovitals, provides personalized predictive care by leveraging active and passive data collected from clinical-grade patient wearables that continuously monitor more than 20 physiological parameters, as well as patient-captured data from a mobile app. Biofourmis.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 1, 2023

Some examples are: Remote home monitoring: Elder care robots that can assist nurses and caregivers to focus on the elderly person’s needs 1. Smart implants: Devices that can monitor vital signs, blood glucose levels, or medication intake 1. category tags: Generative AI , fall prevention, fall detection

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 31, 2021

Our 4g/LTE IoT solutions remotely monitors our elders vital-signs while tracking people and goods through our robust web-based Dispatcher platform. Our elderly devices come equipped with heart rate monitors, fall detection and GPS - taking care of our elders has never been easier." MoviWear. " Learn more at MoviWear.

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Digital Health 138

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 20, 2020

The hospital sector has been interesting as it has also had to adopt telehealth at an alarming rate, perhaps not with the same agility as primary care, but adoption has taken place. Much of the traditional work of outpatient referrals, theatre lists and emergency care has been replaced with all things COVID-19.

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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. As the population ages , will there be enough family member and professional caregivers to provide care? Making assumptions about care helps understand centenarian future needs.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Consolidate with home care associations , for one, since that seems to be the more likely service providers for the oldest who cannot afford to move to LeadingAge companies. category tags: senior living , Boomer-Senior Tech Business. What else should LeadingAge do? Learn more at SoundMindInc.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 28, 2018

Using state-of-the-art Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar, Keenly Health intelligently monitors vital signs and patient activities to provide a distinctive window into a resident’s current and future health state. category tags: Mobile PERS , IoT and home monitoring , fall prevention, fall detection , medication management , Family caregivers.

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GlobalMed

MAY 27, 2020

At GlobalMed we know telemedicine can bring care to remote areas , but even with advancements in technology, people in rural and remote locations continue to face limitations in accessing healthcare. Four Ways Telemedicine is Improving Access to Care. A primary factor in this crisis is the lack of access to health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Many will need to be monitored in their home for chronic diseases and in-home risk of falling – Amazon noticed with Alexa Together – Verizon noticed with its Care Smart Watch. Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Fortunately, she was alert enough to be careful to avoid a mistake. Tracker by Medisafe (iPhone and Android), not only reminds you when it’s time for a refill but enables you to track vitals like blood pressure. category tags: medication management. Others may not be so diligent.

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