Digital Divide
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Telehealth? West Health’s Innovative Answer to Providing Safe, In-home Eldercare
Rudimentary forms of telemedicine have existed since the late 1950s, when two-way interactive television was used to transmit neurological exams across campuses for medical students, and similar setups were employed for group psychotherapy consultations.West Health, originally formed as the West Wireless Health Institute, has for more than a decade worked in the modern telemedicine space, seeking ...
Innovations in Supportive Services for California’s Seniors
Key Facts: Supportive ServicesBy 2050, 83.7 million Americans will be 65 and older — almost double the 2012 estimate of 43.1 million.About 70% of seniors will require supportive services at some point during their lives.National spending for supportive services totaled $310 billion in 2013, with Medicaid covering 51 percent of total expenditures followed by other public, out-of-pocket spending and...
Using a Mobile-Technology Tool to Assist Meals on Wheels Drivers in Conducting Home Wellness Checks
IntroductionGrowing evidence that social determinants (e.g. nutrition, transportation, and housing) have a significant impact on health and well-being.Opportunity to leverage home meal-delivery programs, such as Meals on Wheels (MOW), to proactively identify and address unmet social needs and create partnerships with providers and payers to better support clients.We conducted a pilot study to eval...
Data Science Platform as a Service: An Approach for Non-Programmers
BackgroundThe healthcare needs of seniors are characterized by chronic illness extended over multiple episodes and time-periods that often require a wide range of providers, both clinical and communitybased. This combination of long-term episodic healthcare needs and dispersion of providers means that healthcare data on seniors is likewise scattered, equivocal, and isolated. To obtain a comprehens...