Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. The cost of in-home care, according to Genworth Financial, averages around $5000.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For example, developing a good understanding of how many devices you have and what each of them are used for. For example, is a device communicating with a system that is outside the organization? Once the communication patterns for devices are clearly mapped, Khanna suggests looking for anomalies.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, they think that the potassium value in the lab result is not correct. With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. For example, for just lactic acid. there were 708 different terms for it across their 185 hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2021

General Hospital, ER, St. Elsewhere, and New Amsterdam are just a few examples. Hollywood loves healthcare dramas. But there is much more to healthcare than the patient-facing clinical side. There are plenty of other departments and areas of healthcare that Hollywood could explore.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 20, 2024

For example, you don’t have as many physical cues sometimes because you can’t necessarily see the person’s whole body – things like that at times are noticeable. Because there’s a smaller staff onsite at the hospitals overnight, I also feel like I’ve gotten to know some of the staff at the hospital.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 11, 2024

Exec Summary: Digital health direct-to-consumer (DTC) refers to healthcare products and services delivered directly to consumers online, bypassing traditional intermediaries like doctors or hospitals. Examples include: Telehealth consultations: Virtual doctor visits for diagnosis, treatment, and prescription refills.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

In its latest 2024-2025 Budget, for example, the Ministry of Health and Aged Care announced a funding of A$588 million over eight years to establish a new national digital service to provide support for people in temporary distress. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 27, 2023

Take, as an example, insulin pumps that connect wirelessly to a phone so insulin delivery to a patient can be modulated remotely. These types of vulnerable clinical systems also add another pathway for launching a ransomware attack on a hospital. Each of these vulnerabilities offers bad actors an entry point for an attack.

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Healthcare Innovation Consortium

MAY 30, 2024

For example, people who have been in an abusive relationship, people who have had drug problems, sexual abuse, plus much more. For example, one customer came to us with 36,000 files. We also recently worked with a high-security psychiatric hospital. If it highlights more than one, then you know instantly there is a problem.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 8, 2023

For example, an app might partner with a hospital to offer patients a way to message their doctors and nurses directly. For example, an app might offer a free basic version with limited features, and then charge users a subscription fee to access additional features or functionality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

For example, Medicare reimbursement of telemedicine will continue by and large as it did during COVID until the end of 2024. For example, remote patient monitoring can be critical in making sure care delivered remotely (or in person) is doing what it’s supposed to do and that adverse outcomes do not occur.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, government and financial services are two sectors that have found great success in implementing Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDPs). In the Change Healthcare attack, for example, coordinated action was necessary to manage the fallout from the ransomware incident.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 21, 2023

For example, Google Care Studio can be used to collect and organize patient data, and Google Bard can be used to generate reports, summaries, and other documents that can be used to help clinicians make better decisions. Care Studio is designed to be easy to use and can be customized to meet the specific needs of each clinic or hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

For example, if an individual suffers from heart disease there is a high chance that there were an array of antecedent signals beforehand that could have prompted a lifestyle change and ultimately, prevented its onset. Many serious conditions possess early warning signs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

"Example visit types include results review, surgical follow-up visits and pre-surgical consults." "However, for many patients who live outside our area, this technology is critical as it allows them to schedule their follow-up visits without a long drive to the hospital. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For example, artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve financial forecasting, risk management, and decision-making processes while automation can streamline routine operations and improve productivity to reduce costs. One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 14, 2021

We used whiteboards and clipboards to document our patient’s status and manage patient flow around the hospital. An example of using digital technology to improve care was the introduction of electronic observations. At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. Not having real-time data made making decisions difficult.

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Mobile Health Matters

MAY 7, 2018

As nurses increasingly play a bolder role in healthcare, health IT vendors and hospital leadership have a responsibility to help foster growth and success for nurses. Both parties need to remember that maintaining nursing satisfaction is as important as improving efficiency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2023

For example, Lloyd’s of London recently announced its coverages would no longer include cyber attacks from nation-states such as Russia and China. Small and rural hospitals are being priced out of cyber insurance coverage, during a time when remediation costs for a breach or hacking incident can exceed $10 million.

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KB Dental Consulting

MARCH 1, 2020

Hospitals usually prefer to buy second-hand goods in categories that have a long life, high cost, or low expected usage (if they are not used often, why buy a new one). For example, a CT scanner is a valuable item and will function for 10 to 20 years depending on the application.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

With thousands of patients falling ill each year through viruses picked up in hospitals, it is vital that each healthcare professional keeps their hands as clean as possible. For example, a physiotherapist might play past videos of a patient’s movement to evaluate their progress over time.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

With thousands of patients falling ill each year through viruses picked up in hospitals, it is vital that each healthcare professional keeps their hands as clean as possible. For example, a physiotherapist might play past videos of a patient’s movement to evaluate their progress over time.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, if a patient’s vital signs indicate that they are developing an infection, their healthcare provider can respond promptly and prescribe the appropriate treatment. Post-Operative Care After Discharge After being discharged from the hospital, it’s important to continue with your postoperative care at home.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

The ER is the worst place in the world from a consumer standpoint: you have to drive there, it’s around the four walls of a hospital, it’s a huge wait, and it’s often really expensive. For example, it’s 2am and Johnny injured his knee. That’s really the solution.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JULY 18, 2019

For example, in the case of my mom’s lung transplant, we were asked several times whether we would give consent to “experimental” trials or “high risk donors”. For example, at one point my mom could not eat regular food because of aspiration risk. Less dramatic versions of this example occurred throughout her stay. Speaking Up.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

For example, surgeons might notice their care team takes longer to respond to patient messages than their partner's care team does. As an ambulatory surgery center, it has to be very intentional about collecting readmission data from the regional hospital. Can they change their habits to address that lag time?

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Docnotes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Of course he doesn’t want people to be unhealthy so that they go to the hospital. In his defense – we’ve seen very good examples of the hospitals in our community changing for the better, and the hospitals we work with are indeed migrating their work toward better health and away from more care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

For example, the Brigham Home Hospital program leveraged Biofourmis’ AI-based technology to improve outcomes while lowering costs by 38%, the company reported. For example, an intelligent alert is sent if data from a patient with chronic heart failure reports sudden weight gain.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 3, 2019

Coming back full circle, there is still going to be a market for community hospital IT software but it will be one that is in long-term decline and largely a maintenance market that lives of the 16-20% annual software and maintenance feeds vendors charge (more if they host it). These might include a few things.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 30, 2018

It’s designed for acute care and affiliated ambulatory facilities of hospitals. It runs on IOS and Android smartphones and is available both on-premise, with servers inside the hospital’s data room, or a cloud offering via our cloud partner, Parallon Technology Solutions. Integration to third-party messaging systems.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JULY 16, 2019

Within three days of her initial procedure she was on a ventilator and unable to speak for nearly her entire stay at the hospital. Others started at different hospitals and came to UCSF when it became clear a transplant was their only hope. It soon became clear she would require a lung transplant in order to recover.

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LinkousThink

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

For example, telephone monitoring services may not be asking the right questions of patients, suggesting that we need to reevaluate the appropriate ongoing physiological data that should be measured for heart failure. An accompanying editorial in the NEJM focused on several concerns. It is troubling why this was not included.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Teaming with Boston Children’s Hospital, it developed a then-groundbreaking Alexa feature that allowed the company’s AI-driven voice service to provide parents with basic health advice in response to questions about a child’s fever-like symptoms. For example, what happens when you tell Siri or Google Assistant you can’t breathe?

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. Mercy Virtual is arguably the world’s most advanced example of something gaining momentum in the health care world: A virtual hospital, where specialists remotely care for patients at a distance.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 12, 2021

A simple example is that no two brain injuries mirror one another and not even in the same person. What’s even more insulting is that the school and the hospital were part of the CDC Heads Up program. They took her to urgent care, not to the children’s hospital. Lynne Becker: Yes, that’s a smart way to say it.

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American Well

JULY 21, 2015

For example we don’t provide doctors. For example we looked at, for a while, should we build a device that sits in the home? On the flip side, as a startup you’re always short on resources. You can’t do everything. So we were very clear on areas that we couldn’t scale into. It’s the patient.

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