The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week that among the rapidly growing number of mobile health apps on the market, it would only regulate those posing the greatest risks to consumers. The agency intends to “exercise enforcement discretion,” according to a release, meaning it will not enforce requirements under the Federal Drug & […]
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With sights set on improving patient outcomes and reducing costs, a partnership between Cigna-HealthSpring and naviHealth aims to help hospitalized seniors navigate post-acute care options upon discharge. Under the program, naviHealth’s team of nurses and licensed therapists will engage and assess Cigna-Healthspring members in the hospital to educate them and their caregivers on their options […]
Care Innovations announced Thursday that Louis Burns will be retiring from his post of chief executive officer after 30 years with Intel and the Intel-GE collaboration. The company’s board of directors has named Sean Slovenski as the next CEO. Slovenski joins Care Innovations from Humana, where he served as Segment Vice President of Humana’s Health […]
Emeritus Senior Living (NYSE:ESC) has launched a new communication app for its residents that is currently being rolled out through a pilot program across eight of its communities in the Midwest. The app, called “My Emeritus,” was designed by the assisted living provider and Sitelligence with Emeritus customizing the app for its residents, and for […]
Senior residents of more than two dozen of Brookdale Senior Living’s (NYSE: BKD) Florida communities have gained access to an online social network through the company’s partnership with ConnectedLiving. Brookdale’s 29 Florida communities have implemented ConnectedLiving’s cloud-based platform, which allows users to go online, email, access a library, games and social media tools including video […]
Care Innovations recently received FDA clearance to launch its newest telehealth offering, a cloud-based platform for home healthcare management that features communication tools for family caregivers. Connect RCM (remote care management) eliminates the need for hardware, and its use can reduce the cost of remote care deployments by as much as 50% compared to device-centric […]
Google could be getting into the senior care industry with the launch of Calico, a new company devoted to health and well-being—particularly the challenge of aging and associated diseases, Google announced Wednesday. Calico’s CEO and founding investor is Arthur D. Levinson, the chairman and former CEO of biotechnology company Genentech and the current chairman of Apple. […]
Electrical engineers at the University of Utah have developed an aging in place system that can detect if a person has fallen in their home, reports Medical News Today (MNT). The monitoring technology uses a two-level array of radio-frequency sensors placed around the perimeter of an individual’s room that can determine if someone is standing […]
Fueled by an aging population, the market for elder-care technology products is expected to reach nearly $7.2 billion by 2018, according to a report from BCC Research. National health expenditures in the U.S. totaled has been the rise, with increases in spending attributable to an aging society, note researches in the “Technologies for Long-Term Care […]
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