Ten technologies from the 2018 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit
Two sets of pitches, ten finalists across the competitions. The first five are finalists in the 2018 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit Business Plan competition. The Business Plan Competition...
View ArticleWhy telehealth has (so far) been a bust
07/13/2018Sector has been hampered by cost, reimbursement, lack of awareness.category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-TelehealthWhy telehealth has (so far) been a bust
View ArticleVoice First: Speaking Up about Health and Wellness
Voice First is changing health and wellness offerings today. Already the predicted capability to speak a request or instruction without having to type or tap on a device – known as Voice First – has...
View ArticleThe Power of Voice in Healthcare
08/07/2018Overview of the Voice of Healthcare Summit held in Boston, August 7, 2018category tags: Voice First/AI technology, healthcare, mHealth-Digital Health-TelehealthThe Power of Voice in Healthcare
View ArticleDISH, Independa transform in-home entertainment and care experiences for...
San Diego, Aug. 29, 2018 – DISH and Independa, the global leader in remote engagement technologies, are transforming the way people interact with entertainment and healthcare services, whether at home...
View ArticleTrilogy Home Healthcare Partners with Synzi
CLEARWATER, Fla.-- Synzi, a leading virtual care company, has announced that Trilogy Home Healthcare (Trilogy), a Medicare-certified home healthcare agency, has selected its virtual care communication...
View ArticleAiva Health receives investment from Google’s Assistant Investment Program
oice powered care assistant, Aiva Health has received a significant investment from the Google Assistant Investment Program -- the program’s first foray into healthcare. All capital received will work...
View ArticleReemo Health and HNC Virtual Solutions Announce Transformative Connected...
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Reemo Health, the personalized enablement platform that protects the independence of the young at heart, and HNC Virtual Solutions, a fast-paced,...
View ArticleFive Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018
Held each year – but has much changed? The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by the pre-conference Voice Health summit, task forces, and even...
View ArticleMeet LiSA, The First Voice-Based Social Wellness App For Seniors
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- She's helpful, she's funny, she's well connected, and now residents of senior communities and virtual villages throughout the nation can invite LiSA, a...
View ArticleVoice First and Health – What’s notable and not so much?
You probably knew this – that 2018 was the year of voice tech and healthcare. Summits were held, experts have declared, pilots were piloted, partnerships formed, enthusiasm reigned, and so it has...
View ArticleSix Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018
October – autumn leaves drift down and large events gear up. Traversing the trade show world, so much tech, so little time. And other shows await, including Aging 2.0 Optimize in California, GSA in...
View ArticleSix Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from January, 2019
January 2019 was a l-o-o-o-n-g month. And not the least because of travel to California, Nevada, Tennessee, and a hop through Atlanta. Most because it was difficult to absorb and rationalize so much...
View ArticleFive technology offerings from HIMSS 2019
HIMSS 2019 is where 43,000 health IT enthusiasts engage. Per their own by-the-numbers charts, you see a picture of the scale of it -- more than 40,000 attendees wanted to be in Orlando, braving...
View Article2009-19 Market of Technology for Older Adults -- All change, all the time
The more things change...This is the tenth anniversary of the launch of this Market Overview of technology for ‘Aging in Place’, to be re-published in March 2019 – the category of offerings that help...
View ArticleCedars-Sinai Taps Alexa for Smart Hospital Room Pilot
A pilot program underway in more than 100 patient rooms at Cedars-Sinai is allowing patients to use an Alexa-powered platform known as Aiva to interact hands-free with nurses and control their...
View ArticleFocus on Technology for Older Adults Sharpens in 2019
2019 Technology Market Overview is online this week. When assembling the 2019 tenth anniversary version, it was apparent that this year reflects change -- in the supply-demand balance in the overbuilt...
View ArticleWhite House report highlights key focuses for healthy aging tech research
03/18/2019Developing these strategies and tools will be "critical" for the federal government.category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health, Boomer-Senior Tech BusinessWhite House...
View ArticleHighlighting Eight Technologies from the 2019 Market Overview
The new trend – tech/services for older adults, not just tech. When the 2009 Market Overview was completed a decade ago, there were gadgets galore, most introduced with maximum enthusiasm and a...
View ArticleAmazon Alexa launches first HIPAA compliant health skill
04/04/2019Select developers to create and launch HIPAA-compliant healthcare skills for Alexa.category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice HealthAmazon Alexa launches first HIPAA compliant...
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