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AbleData
Organization:
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the Department of Education
Information on Assistive Technology, sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the Department of Education.
Administration on Aging
Organization:
Department of Health and Human Services
AoA is one of the largest providers of home- and community-based care for older persons and their caregivers. The agency's mission is to develop a comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective system of long-term care that helps individuals maintain their dignity in their homes and communities
Aging Boomers: Technology to the Rescue? (Video from CAST Technology Demo)
Organization:
Intel Sensor Networks at CAST Technology Demo
The first baby-boomers will reach retirement age just six years from now. Already, healthcare is America's biggest cost, and fastest growing too. It's a huge challenge - but technology, healthcare and education leaders say it is also a huge opportunity.
Alzheimer's Association
Organization:
Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer’s Association is the first and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to finding prevention methods, treatments and an eventual cure for Alzheimer’s. Their Web site is a resource for caregivers, health professionals, and persons with memory loss.
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Organization:
AAHSA
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) is committed to advancing the vision of healthy, affordable, ethical aging services for America.
American College of Physicians
Organization:
American College of Physicians
Description: The American College of Physicians (ACP) is the nation's largest medical specialty society. Its mission is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine.
Case Study: EHRs in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
Organization:
US Department of Health and Human Services
This study was focused on electronic health records (EHRs) and information systems that are used to exchange clinical information across providers.
Caregiving Blog by Philips Lifeline
Organization:
Philips Lifeline
Caregivingblog.com is an online resource to aid in the eldercare issues currently facing families. It will provide useful information and a sense of community for those facing similar circumstances.
Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA)
Organization:
Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech has launched a revised assistivetech.net website that provides people with disabilities, service providers, and educators with a resource for assistive technologies and a link to a wide array of disability-related information and services.
Center for Connected Health
Organization:
Center for Connected Health
The Center for Connected Health focuses on extending the care community beyond the traditional walls of healthcare institutions by bringing healthcare to the everyday surroundings of the health consumer and their families.
Changing Aging Blog
Organization:
Ecumen
A Place to Share & Discuss Ideas, News, Innovations & Opinions That Are Changing Aging.
CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series: Eric Dishman
Organization:
University of California - Berkeley
In the midst of disruptive demographic changes that will double the number of people over age 60 to more than 1.2 billion by 2025, we are faced with an enormous global challenge: how do we improve the quality of life for this massive number of people in need while decreasing the costs of healthcare?
Connecting for Health Common Framework
Organization:
The Markle Foundation
The Common Framework provides an essential set of technical and policy resources for private and secure health information sharing among existing and developing health information networks. All of the Connecting for Health Common Framework resources are available here at no cost.
Dossia-enabled Personal Health Records
Organization:
Dossia
Employers are creating the Dossia Network to provide consumers with an important new health benefit: a lifelong personal health record that they own and control.
e-CareManagement Blog
Organization:
Better Health Technologies, LLC
A place to share and receive information on chronic disease management, technology, strategy, issues and trends.
Ecumen Age Wave Study - Minnesota
Organization:
Ecumen
Ecumen commissioned Decision Resources, Ltd., a Minneapolisbased
public opinion research firm to conduct the largest survey ever
of Minnesota baby boomers to learn what they’re thinking about the
future.
eHealth Initiative
Organization:
eHealth Initiative
http://ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org/communities/community.aspx?Section=288
Family Caregiving Alliance
Organization:
National Center on Caregiving
Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) serves as a public voice for caregivers, illuminating the daily challenges they face, offering them the assistance they need and deserve, and championing their cause through education, services, research and advocacy.
Future of RFID
Organization:
Technology Review
Gain expert insight into future implications, privacy concerns, and the economics of RFID. Watch TR's Webcast now!
Health Politics
Organization:
Pfizer, Inc.
“Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee” is a weekly Internet-based electronic media program that explores complex topics at the intersection of health care and policy.
Healthcare Standards Landscape
Organization:
National Institute of Standards and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a Web site that allows users to search for and publish information on health IT standards, organizations and related references
HIT Dashboard
Organization:
HIMSS and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Want to learn what's going on in health IT right now? The HIT Dashboard provides a color-coded, easy-to-read visual interface that tracks over 500 state, federal, and private HIT initiatives so you can stay informed on the latest health IT initiatives across the country.
Home-Centered Health Care
Organization:
Health Politics
Our current health care system – reactive, interventional rather than preventive, constrained by time and space, and lacking family or community context – is ill-equipped to address the demands of a rapidly aging population.
How to Select an Electronic Health Record System
Organization:
American Academy of Family Physicians
These 12 steps will help make the selection process easier and lead you to the EHR that's right for your practice.
iHealthBeat
Organization:
California HealthCare Foundation
iHealthBeat is a free, daily news digest reporting on the Internet's impact on health care. iHealthBeat is part of the California HealthCare Foundation's commitment to important issues affecting health care policy, delivery and financing.
Illinois Assistive Technology Program
Organization:
Illinois Assistive Technology Program
Illinois Assistive Technology Program (IATP) is a not-for-profit agency that promotes the availability of assistive technology (AT) services and programs for people with disabilities.
Institute for the Future of Aging Services
Organization:
IFAS
The Institute for the Future of Aging Services is a policy research institute within the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
International Association of Homes & Services for the Aging
Organization:
IAHSA
IAHSA is an international network of provider organizations, businesses, researchers, individuals and government officials, with representation in approximately 30 countries. IAHSA’s mission is to connect and support care and service providers worldwide to enhance the quality of life for the aging.
The International Longevity Center
Organization:
The International Longevity Center
The International Longevity Center is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, research, policy and education organization with a mission to help society understand and harness the benefits of an aging population and increased longevity through research and education.
Journal of the International Society for Gerontechnology
Organization:
International Society for Gerontechnology
This is the first international scientific journal devoted to gerontechnology. The website contains articles that juxtapose research in aging and technology with the broader categories of housing, mobility, health, communication, leisure, and work.
National Adult Day Services Association
Organization:
NADSA
The National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA) is the leading voice of the rapidly growing adult day service (ADS) industry and the national focal point for adult day services providers
National Aging Information Center
Organization:
Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services
This database contains references to program- and policy-related materials on aging not referenced in any other computer system or print resource. Among others, the database is intended to serve national aging organizations, aging services providers, policy makers, and the general public
National Council on the Aging
Organization:
NCOA
The National Council on the Aging is a national network of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving the health and independence of older persons and increasing their continuing contributions to communities, society and future generations
Our Technological Future Blog
Organization:
Our Technological Future
This blog put together by Jan-Willem Bats, features news and articles about upcoming technologies such as nanotechnology/molecular manufacturing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology.
Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Lending Library
Organization:
Institute on Disabilities at Temple University
Pennsylvania's Assistive Technology Lending Library is a free service that loans assistive technology devices to people with disabilities. It's available to Pennsylvanians of all ages and disabilities.
Perspectives on the Future of Personal Health Records
Organization:
California Healthcare Foundation
As a hub of information and information-management tools controlled by the patient, personal health records present a number of promises, perils, and challenges in the years ahead.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio blog
Organization:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The idea behind the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio is simple–focus on the future of health and health care and promote innovations that may lead to breakthrough improvements.We intend for this blog to support the work of the Pioneer Portfolio.
Standard for Personalized Health Informatics
Organization:
IEEEP
Jose C. Lacal developed the concept of Personalized Health Informatics starting in 2004 as a Family-centered, portable, personalized, prevention-oriented Seamless Health Record platform of services to maintain, enhance, and restore an individual’s health.
Technology and Aging Group of the Gerontological Society of America
Organization:
Gerontological Society of America
GSA-TAG is a Formal Interest Group of GSA that promotes and supports research and applications of technology to improve the quality of life for older persons in a world-wide society.
Technology Review
Organization:
MIT
Technology Review and Technologyreview.com are published by Technology Review Inc., an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Technology for Long Term Care
Organization:
Polisher Research Institute and IDEAS
Information about available technology products. A collaborative effort of Polisher Research Institute and IDEAS, funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services
Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL Centre)
Organization:
Technology Research for Independent Living
The TRIL Centre is a coordinated collection of research projects addressing the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing, all informed by ethnographic research and supported by a shared pool of knowledge and engineering resources.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Organization:
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
The report on the applying HIT standards to the nursing home Minimum Data Set (MDS) describes the need to apply HIT standards to patient assessment instruments, to support implementation of an interoperable HIT infrastructure and how specific HIT standards were applied to the MDS.
Welcome to the Project HealthDesign blog!
Organization:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
This is a place to share and learn about changes in the policy and media landscape that impact the development of personal health records (PHRs), and the field of health and information technology generally.
White House/VA Conference Emerging Technologies
Organization:
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
The Department of Veterans Affairs hosted the White House Conference on Emerging Technologies to Promote Emerging Technologies for the Disabled. Eric Dishman, CAST Chairman, represented CAST on a panel discussion that focused on technologies that enable independent living.
I/UCRC Model Partnerships
Organization:
National Science Foundation
Over the past two decades, the I/UCRCs have led the way to a new era of partnership between universities and industry, featuring high-quality, industrially relevant fundamental research, strong industrial support of and collaboration in research, education and more.
Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems
Organization:
Georgia Tech
CERCS brings together researchers from Georgia Tech's College of Computing and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering who share a common focus on the design and evaluation of computer and software systems through experimental methods.
NSF Center for e-Design
Organization:
National Science Foundation
The NSF Center for e-Design uses the Internet and special software platforms to manipulate a common design in cyberspace and in unison, allowing multiple partners to interact in the design process.
Center for Fuel Cells
Organization:
University of South Carolina
The NSF has selected the University of South Carolina’s College of Engineering and Information Technology to help lead the nation’s fuel cell initiatives by performing research with industry aimed at developing and commercializing the use of fuel cells.
5th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference
Organization:
THE CENTER FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION (TCBI)
San Francisco, CA - 7/7/2008
CAST is organizing the Aging Services Track at the Fifth Healthcare Unbound Conference, which takes place from July 7-8, 2008 in San Francisco.
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