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Hebrew Home at Riverdale Launches Virtual Reality Program
Residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale are experiencing the wonder and excitement of virtual reality in a new expansive technology initiative.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – October 12, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

RiverSpring Living’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale, the iconic Bronx-based long-term care community, announced today a major push into technology with an expansive augmented and virtual reality initiative for its 600+ residents.

Residents of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale are experiencing a new virtual reality program through a partnership with Boston-based Rendever. Rendever, a leading provider of virtual reality services to the healthcare industry, has created a custom VR experience for the Hebrew Home community, transporting older adults around the world.

This VR effort is making the impossible possible. The limitations of age and physical fragility, in addition to the impact of COVID, has reduced and, in many cases, prevented residents of the Hebrew Home from traveling outside of the campus. Virtual reality has opened the doors of possibility to change that. 

This technology is being used in a variety of initiatives:

Globetrotting Near and Far

Residents are being transported to the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China and to the neighborhoods where they grew up. Because of technology, there is no limitation to where and when they can explore.

Attending Family Gatherings … Virtually

The Hebrew Home is equipping family members of its long-term care residents with GoPro cameras to film weddings, graduations, little league games and other important family events and gatherings.  

Footage is uploaded to the VR headsets and shared with residents. Trained therapists work with residents, talking about the meaning of the family event, how they feel, and memories of spending time with them when they were younger.  

Easing the Agitation of Dementia

Preliminary usage of VR at the Hebrew Home indicates that residents suffering from early stages of dementia are engaged and demonstrate increased attention and decreased agitation when using VR headsets that display family or calming images.

Preparing for Home After Rehab

Families of rehab patients are provided GoPro cameras to film each room in the home.  These videos are uploaded to a virtual reality headset so that the patient can virtually walk through each room. Therapists can see the room on an accompanying iPad, helping the patient navigate. If changes need to be made — such as removing rugs to prevent falls, opening more space between a couch and table for a walker or wheelchair to get through, the therapist provides feedback before the patient heads home.

Augmented and virtual reality is creating worlds to see and meet people beyond the Hebrew Home’s Riverdale campus. With this new technology initiative, Hebrew Home residents are just a headset away from endless possibilities.

About RiverSpring Living

RiverSpring Living, backed by over 100 years of top-rated service as the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, provides progressive care to over 18,000 older adults of all faiths through compassionate care and vibrant community engagement, and is guided by Jewish values and a non-profit mission that advocates and celebrates a vision of empowered aging.

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Wendy Steinberg 
718-581-1253 / 347-988-4446

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Wendy Steinberg

Vice President of Communications

wendy.steinberg@riverspring.org

718-581-1253

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RiverSpring Living’s Hebrew Home at Riverdale Announces Major Focus on Augmented and Virtual Reality Initiatives to Enhance Quality of Life for Its Residents

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Expansion exemplifies the company’s commitment to meet the highest security and compliance standards

TORONTO – October 12, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health), a leading health data and integration company, today announced it has passed an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Foundational Technical Review (FTR) and has achieved Amazon HealthLake (AHL) Connector partner status in the AWS Partner Network (APN). Healthcare organizations can expect Smile Digital Health running on AWS to provide a best-in-class data fabric platform along with the confidence that it is meeting various regulatory and compliance requirements in the U.S. and the EU when storing and sharing their sensitive health data via the platform. Smile Digital Health first announced its work with AWS in March, and this expansion represents the continual growth of that relationship.

“Our ongoing work with AWS demonstrates the deep collaboration between our companies, delivering the many benefits of the Smile Digital Health data fabric platform running in a world-class hyperscale environment. Having partner status provides our customers with substantial benefits including additional security, dependability and operational excellence,” said Duncan Weatherston, Chief Executive Officer, Smile Digital Health. “Healthcare organizations — and in turn their patients — are well served by access to our scalable, high-performing, resilient and efficient data fabric platform on the leading cloud infrastructure.”

The expansion and scope of work includes two key elements:

• Becoming an Amazon HealthLake (AHL) Connector Partner, demonstrating the company’s ability to help transform existing healthcare data in real time into the required format, including standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR^®) format, so the data can be used across AHL applications and services.
   
• Passing the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR), which helps identify and mitigate technical risks in solutions built by independent software vendors (ISVs). Smile Digital Health’s solutions were evaluated by a subset of AWS Well-Architected best practices. As part of the review, Smile Digital Health’s reference architecture was approved to be deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS), a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, and Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL to ensure a performant, cost-effective, secure and scalable solution.

“Our customers can expect Smile Digital Health to continuously meet and often exceed regulatory and compliance requirements when storing and sharing their sensitive health data via our data fabric platform. In that sense, we continue to guarantee the highest security and compliance standards,” said James Agnew, Chief Technology Officer, Smile Digital Health.

Smile Digital Health’s work on AWS continues to simplify the interoperability process between various data platforms, allowing for better health journey outcomes between patients, providers and health systems, and reducing information technology barriers.

About Smile Digital Health

Smile Digital Health is a health information technology company focused on delivering better global health through open standards. Our enterprise-grade, health data fabric and exchange platform fuels healthcare’s digital transformation and accelerates value creation across all patient journeys at scale. Powered by our HL7® FHIR® standard-based clinical data repository (#SmileInside), our platform enables collaboration and allows organizations to ingest, transform, store, enrich, analyze, aggregate, and meaningfully share health information to power digital transformation. We prepare healthcare providers, payers, researchers, and life sciences organizations for a connected future beyond legacy systems, adding new value through intelligent use of information and ultimately delivering better patient outcomes. We help healthcare organizations confidently #ChooseOpenStandards with the goal of #BetterGlobalHealth. For more information, visit SmileDigitalHealth.com.

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Lucy Railton

Director of Marketing

lucy@smilecdr.com

(800) 683-1318

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Smile Digital Health Expands Work on AWS

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Designee builds on commitment to furthering excellence in the healthcare sector’s information security and privacy programs

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infosec and privacy consultants Apgar & Associates logo, HITRUST designee

PORTLAND, Ore. – October 12, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

Apgar & Associates, LLC today announced that it is designated as a HITRUST Readiness Licensee. With this achievement, Apgar & Associates is approved by HITRUST to perform consulting and readiness work for organizations looking to adopt the HITRUST CSF or prepare for their first assessment. For over a decade, the consultancy has provided information security and privacy services that encompass strategic planning for risk management and compliance programs, as well as consulting on security incidence response, risk analysis, and policy and procedures. 

HITRUST Readiness Licensees help uphold information security and privacy standards for various industries of varying size and complexity by assisting clients with the adoption of the HITRUST CSF framework, implementation, and remediation efforts following adoption, and facilitated self-assessments.

“We’re very pleased to receive the HITRUST Readiness designation. It feels like a natural progression in our firm’s commitment to furthering excellence in the healthcare sector’s information security and privacy programs,” stated Julia Huddleston, CIPP/US, CIPM, CCSFP, and Principal Consultant at Apgar & Associates, LLC. “We look forward to helping guide healthcare providers and their business associates through the what and how of readying for the HITRUST assessment.”

“Readiness Licensees meet the criteria to become trusted and independent resources for clients needing to improve their security posture,” said Matthew Datel, Director, Education & Strategic Initiatives at HITRUST. “Readiness Licensees are helpful in providing qualified third-party reviews for clients preparing for or seeking HITRUST CSF Certification.”

About Apgar & Associates

The consultancy’s information security and privacy services encompass strategic planning for risk management and compliance programs, as well as consulting on security incidence response, risk analysis, and policy and procedures.

The team also helps organizations decide which of the various industry certifications aligns best with the business’ privacy and information security strategy. For more information about Apgar & Associates’ consulting services, such as HITRUST Readiness, please contact the company at 503-384-2538 or visit its website at https://apgarandassoc.com/.

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Nora Haile

Marketing Consultant

nora@nhaile.com

520-425-6498

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Apgar & Associates Achieves HITRUST® Readiness Licensee Designation

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