Tech plus service enables care at home.
Washington DC, August 21-25, 2024
Tangential to the talk: technology for an aging population. Looking through the agenda of the Connected Health Symposium in Boston, it's apparent in an agenda so densely packed with doctors (not to mention the attendees, with 26 just from Mass General Hospital) that this is not a conference about technology and aging (duh!). And that is despite the fact that the biggest patient dilemma for both the businesses and providers packing the rooms remains the aging and very old patients who fill their offices and hospital beds and run up the largest bills at end of life. Among the sponsors and exhibitors, these vendors stood out for me as important for serving an aging population. In alphabetical order:
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But where does all this data go?
Hi Laurie,
I also enjoyed the conference immensely -- including your presentation. I was impressed with the wide range of discussion and participants.
But all these vendors creating all this data made my head spin! Where will the data all go? Is a family or a practitioner to go to one site for sleep monitoring, another for glucose levels, a third for heart data ...
Obviously that is a non-starter. In my firm's case, we provide home care services and we provide an online daily report from our caregivers. I want to be able to pull in all that data from other suppliers so that the family needs to come to only one place. I think providing an API is crucial so we can exchange data across providers (for authorized users and use cases, obviously). I look forward to seeing that as the next wave in development over the coming year.
Jim Reynolds
CEO, Caring Companion Connections
http://www.CaringCompanion.Net