Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

What is the status and future of remote care technologies? It triggered ingenuity of senior care organizations and vendors ; and it energized innovators and prospective investors. Reimbursement of technology was a key policy change in 2020 that fueled adoption and investment in telehealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

2020 Research Reports – A Recap. So 2020 was a year that produced 5 white papers and three long research reports emerge – normally not feasible with so much here-and-there travel. Five technologies for older adults – November 2020. It was the month for giving thanks -- remotely. And so it remains a virtual world.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

The world is spinning from the events of March 2020. It’s almost quaint to look at where the month began – publishing the 2020 Market Overview of Technology for Aging. Smart home and ability to enable participation in remote interactions) matters more than it ever has. Technology innovation from HIMSS 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While the adoption of digital tools has grown since 2019, tele-visits increased the most in adoption compared with other technologies in the study such as remote monitoring, patient engagement, and clinician decision support. Thus, there has been a significant shift in the importance of remote care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

More from August 2020: Voice tech is pervasive – for some, but hardware market adoption may be slowing. Note that 51% of 5000 responders in this 2020 global marketing survey worry about voice assistants listening to them without their consent. Lots of talk about remote care technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Fourth Acquisition Bolsters Remote Patient Monitoring Company’s Presence in Primary Care and Cardiology CoachCare , a leading remote patient monitoring (RPM) and virtual health company, has acquired Nashville, Tennessee-based RPM company Verustat , for an undisclosed amount.

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eVisit

JANUARY 12, 2021

We thought we’d celebrate the new year with a quick look back on highlights from 2020, along with a look forward and 2021 predictions from our co-founders : Bret Larsen, CEO, and Miles Romney, CTO. Top 5 2020 Blog Posts. Top eVisit stories at our Virtual Care Blog from 2020 — as rated by the eVisit team — are still a must-read in 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The rise of remote care is explored in the second chart. The important aspects of that is to provide care outside of bricks-and-mortar physician offices, to improve resource allocation, to demonstrate awareness of new technology, and to allow physicians to see more patients, among other underlying adoption drivers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Their multivariable regression model analyzed weekly EHR metadata, comparing the same measures for one year before the pandemic – August 2018-September 2019 – with the same period one year after its onset – August 2020-September 2021. hours per eight patient scheduled hours.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 1, 2020

Or that high speed internet would not be available in nursing homes or the dementia care units in assisted living where their relatives now lived. Here are the five blog posts from June 2020: Tech adoption older adults matter more now than ever. Let’s hope July is better!

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 29, 2020

Numerous companies popped into my inbox in the past week with announcements of a period of free access to remote care/engagement technologies. Note the other ‘temporary’ change of reimbursement for remote (even telephone) visits , now fitting into the concept of telehealth.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 3, 2020

Note that 51% of 5000 responders in this 2020 global marketing survey worry about voice assistants listening to them without their consent. Also note that the survey extended to boomers (those aged 56 to 74) who apparently cared less than younger people. 2020 is that year – when a category is subsumed into technology ecosystems.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

So that's just about enough of 2020 -- a year worth putting behind us, if ever there was one. Innovators in 2020 helped mitigate social isolation, enable in-home strength training for seniors, provided the tech mechanics (regardless of infrastructure) to connect older adults to families? Voice first technology – in everything.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

19 Telehealth opportunities and remote care options can create a variety of these touchpoints in a personalized and case-specific way, ranging from an overview of patient consultations to implantable cardiac monitors. 20 Remote monitoring especially holds tremendous potential to profit from telehealth applications. Reay at al.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2021

Released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the study showed that in 2020, the number of telemedicine clinics for patients with diabetes in both countries rose by 90%. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

of physicians polled say they work in practices that used videoconferencing to provide patient visits in September 2020, according to the survey – that's compared to only 14.3% "There was a great deal of variation within specialty, with large shares of physicians who didn't provide any remote visits the prior week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, furloughs gutted the clinic’s on-site staff. Remote care became the only non-urgent care option for patients, many of whom are reluctant to embrace video-conferencing technologies like Zoom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2021

The findings are based on a survey conducted from October to December 2020 from 17 countries. The recently launched HIMSS Insights Special Edition - APAC digital health trendbarometer report provides readers insights on the state of digital health developments in the APAC region.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 4, 2020

So we know that ‘remote care’ and ‘caring’ in its various forms, including telehealth , seem to be heating up as a priority , whether for senior living organizations , families, healthcare provider organizations. Will results change when older adults are surveyed later this year? Caregiving Technology Adoption.

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19 Labs

MAY 2, 2021

billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $191.7 billion by 2025 ; and the uptick in demand is due largely to the pandemic forcing healthcare providers to adapt remote technologies in the age of quarantines and social distancing. The telehealth market was estimated at , $38.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

" In March 2020, Cary Medical Group started a drive-through clinic to see acutely ill patients – to obtain vitals, conduct examinations and run diagnostic tests on those who needed that level of care. Telehealth, the patient portal and mobile check-in allowed them flexibility in caring for their patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2023

Ahmed Siddiqi, an orthopedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Institute Brielle Orthopaedics in New Jersey, started implementing models of digital, remote and hybrid care in early 2020. With effective digital and remote care via remote therapeutic monitoring, he has been able to solve more substantial problems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Rather, as evidenced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Acute Hospital Care at Home program launched in November 2020, acutely ill patients can be equally – if not better – cared for in their homes than in the hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Through COVID Watch – which has enrolled more than 5,000 patients since its launch in late March 2020, with a Spanish language version launched in May – patients receive text messages twice a day to check on their condition and enable contact with nurses who elevate to higher levels of care if need be. THE LARGER TREND.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Remote vital signs monitoring and patient health monitoring systems are also instrumental in chronic care management , providing healthcare providers with up-to-the-minute data. A 2020 study from the University of Pittsburgh demonstrated that utilizing remote patient monitoring (RPM) led to a 76% decrease in readmissions.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 27, 2020

Next generation: What are the dimensions of remote care technology? After the re-opening and stabilization phase of businesses in 2020 and beyond, delivery organizations will want to do a better job of delivering care in its many forms -- when the care recipient is elsewhere.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 19, 2023

The Future of Remote Care and Older Adults (2020). The pandemic catalyzed simultaneous innovation efforts on multiple fronts – many of the initiatives will become fixtures within the emerging remote care technology ecosystem. This report discusses the opportunities, both in 2018 and moving forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2024

The global Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) market is expected to reach over $187 billion by 2028, more than four times its worth in 2020—owing in part to improving technology and the rise in remote care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The healthcare market is no exception.

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InTouch Health

JULY 22, 2020

According to a May 2020 McKinsey report , healthcare providers used telehealth solutions to allow 46% of Americans to replace a cancelled healthcare visit with a telehealth service during the pandemic. Remote care should be the standard of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, remote patient monitoring was poised to gain big momentum in 2020. And, presuming some pressing regulatory questions are sorted out on a go-forward basis, RPM and home-based care seems set to continue to expand, with all the challenges and opportunities that entails. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2021

Given the recent surge of COVID-19 cases and growing clusters in Malaysia as well as the upcoming Movement Control Order (MCO) across the country , telemedicine will continue to play an essential role in providing remote care for patients. ON THE RECORD.

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19 Labs

MAY 2, 2021

billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $191.7 billion by 2025 ; and the uptick in demand is due largely to the pandemic forcing healthcare providers to adapt remote technologies in the age of quarantines and social distancing. The telehealth market was estimated at , $38.7

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19 Labs

MAY 2, 2021

billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $191.7 billion by 2025 ; and the uptick in demand is due largely to the pandemic forcing healthcare providers to adapt remote technologies in the age of quarantines and social distancing. The telehealth market was estimated at , $38.7

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