Predictive tech tools helping spur value-based care, health execs say
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 16, 2024
New tech is helping LTCs provide value-based care via AI and predictive technology, both tech and healthcare leaders say.
4 challenges that senior living leaders must address to thrive in 2024
By
Mark Bryan
Jan 16, 2024
Here are four challenges and their implications that leaders and companies could face that must be addressed if they are to thrive in 2024.
Digital leads just as ‘hot’ as other ones, expert says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 16, 2024
When it comes to senior living leads, digital sources are king, but senior living communities lack the processes and systems in place to handle those leads, as well as the urgency to work them, according...
AI can improve identification of social determinants of health in EHRs
Jan 12, 2024
93.8% of patients with adverse social determinants of health were identified with large language models.
Tech at CES 2024 offers visionary new eyewear for blind, deaf seniors
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 12, 2024
“Hearing glasses” and goggles made for blind individuals are some of the new wearable devices coming out for impaired older adults.
AI-enabled tool lets users ‘mirror’ clinical health check-in
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 12, 2024
A new “smart mirror” device can accurately assess vital signs such as blood pressure and even risk of heart disease.
Wearable gyroscope glove gets a grip on Parkinson’s tremors
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 12, 2024
A new wearable glove prototype uses gyroscope technology to help address tremors in people living with Parkinson’s and others with similar symptoms.
‘Adaptive’ brain stimulation tool could improve care for late-stage Parkinson’s seniors
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 11, 2024
A long-term research study on DBS may have achieved two goals: increasing the area of stimulation and creating a more efficient process.
COVID-19 virus no match for lasers, scientists find
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 11, 2024
A research team using lasers has found that specific wavelengths can do serious damage to either the RNA or protein structures within COVID.
Remote monitoring has collected a lot of data: Now healthcare orgs have to figure out what to do with...
By
Aaron Dorman
Jan 11, 2024
As RPM is gaining traction, next questions include how long individualsshould be monitored and who gets to see the data, a new report states.