I'll say that this particular Amazon product is a privacy nightmare. But what I'm interested in is the tech it shows us that will be available in service to seniors and the family that cares about them. America had a lonely senior population problem. Not all but a significant number. This leads to depression and isolation.

Getting the job done is always the priority. How do you set up people working from home without them ditching the main structure you rely on for security. Many places I worked had a silo for security with no mind to productivity. I am guilty of past transgressions in the name of delivery.

We are social creatures. We depend on each other in physical and emotional ways. Technology is a challenge to that and there’s a big divide based on these technology differences. One of the things that we are doing in our work is finding new ways to incorporate and integrate wellness into what we do every day.

Texting a code to access your bank account or any other you want secured has been hacked for years.

Whereas wellness is the care of health(seems like it should be called healthcare...

Privacy policy is what you see on that long legal document you click when you begin using some service...

There is a lesson when looking at all the public security beaches. The biggest problems are lax processes. Big companies have them all the time. The security company talks about what a larger org can do but many of these have parallels for small practices.

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This is a depressing tale of loneliness in a society where making noise is not socially acceptable...

At Apple’s wwdc conference they announced their usual slate of techy things.

People will use what they can to stay on time with their health. This study shows people with heart conditions are using watches to monitor themselves. This is neither good nor bad but we’re learning what happens.

If you’re thinking about telehealth as it is today you may consider it a fad that will most likely disappear after the pandemic’s influence on us fades away. I think you would be mistaken.

Amazon has their take on sensors, watches and AI support. Apple, Google, Samsung...

We’ve been working virtually on fire for a decade. We’ve had a lot of stumbles, lack of awareness of client’s view leading to high turnover, client staff actively undermining virtual staff, and many more lessons both big and small.

This is a terrific up-to-date article on maybe the biggest threat to small and medium practices. Ransomware is the bane of healthcare.

Years ago I stopped using SMS for authentication but banks are a moribund lot.

In the US some kids want their aging parents to live with them while others definitely do not.

This is a real danger of outsourcing. Asia in general is rampant with pirated software even within large established companies.

I think the reason that remote patient monitoring will grow is because of its effectiveness. When interfacing with healthcare you get a simple short snapshot of a condition or you’re locked down in a hospital room with little more than a bed and TV.

Fall detection is important to detect quickly to save lives for seniors.