The deadline to enter the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards has been extended until Wednesday, June 28.
New app helps wheelchair users find truly accessible places
By
Aaron Dorman
Jun 23, 2023
A new app allows users to enter their mobility needs, and score locations, such as retail locations, from doctor’s offices to restaurants, to assure they can access the facility.
1 week left to enter the 2023 McKnight’s Tech Awards
Jun 16, 2023
The deadline to enter the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards is a week away — Friday, June 23. Find out more here.
At-home senior digital platform releases app to help families manage all aspects of care
By
Aaron Dorman
Sep 07, 2023
A platform that specializes in at-home support for seniors announced the release of its first mobile app this week.
New AI app uses ‘selfies’ to generate health diagnostics
By
Aaron Dorman
Jun 26, 2023
The Together app is the first program to use “generative AI” to record a variety of symptoms including blood pressure, heart rate and blood oxygen, according to Renee, the company that introduced it...
Telehealth programs benefit obese adults with knee OA
Nov 30, 2021
An education and exercise program, with and without dietary intervention, was better than education only for knee osteoarthritis.
AI ‘promising’ for use in geriatrics, but ethical concerns remain, researchers say
By
Aaron Dorman
Sep 22, 2023
A new meta-study on using AI within geriatrics praises AI as a “valuable asset” but still warns about the need for future research and potential ethical concerns.
Bill would allow ‘granny cams’ in resident rooms, require operators to provide free internet
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 20, 2021
The Connecticut Legislature is poised to pass a bill giving long-term care residents the right to treat their living spaces as their own home and allowing use of all forms of virtual communication, including...
ChatGPT capable of clinical reasoning — maybe better than clinicians
Apr 04, 2024
The study builds on early AI studies showing that chatbots could make diagnoses.
Smartphone-based measures can help ID frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Apr 01, 2024
Individuals with frontotemporal lobar degeneration were accurately differentiated from controls with smartphone tests.
