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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

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Medical grade wearables for data collection, and. Medical alert/personal emergency response systems for safety. Laurie also pointed out that both men and women are Apple Watch consumers, with nearly one-half of purchases made by women in 2019. greatest growth, up 15% in 2019. Continuous diabetes wearables.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

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Today, we can also call on Alexa to remind us to take medications, play nostalgic music when we are lonely, check our physical activity status with Fitbit, and query WebMD about a symptom. Chapter 5 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , details the promise of digital health: wearable, shareable and virtual.

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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

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Typically, home healthcare has covered (definitionally and in terms of reimbursement) services addressing activities of daily living, durable medical equipment, and hospice. The drawing shows that increasingly complex medical care can happen at home through the use of sensors and services.

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Here’s Looking at Health at CES 2019

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So next week in Las Vegas, I’ll deal with that bias by staying at the Venetian Hotel for the entire week to cover all-things-health at CES 2019 , the annual convening of electronics retailers and enthusiasts. Because for me, the real medical home is our home, and where we live, work, play, pray and learn.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

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Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. Keep in mind that as our homes evolve into a major place for us to make health, this is the consumer-demand side in health care.