New prospecting tool helps residents overcome barriers
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2014
A company with a tool related to prospect-centered sales for senior living communities announced it has raised another $750,000. It had previously raised an initial $1.5 million in cash and $1 million...
CFOs see Internet, wireless as viable tech investments
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2014
Executives are typically allocating between 2% and 3% of their operating budgets for technology, according to a recent Ziegler survey. More assets are devoted within the capital budget, with an average...
Gastro bacteria may place role in healing
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2014
Bacteria typically found in the gastrointestinal system, such as E.Coli and Bacteroides species, were found in war wounds that healed successfully, according to a recent study.
Avoid treating persistent wounds with aspirin: Study
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2014
Non-aspirin pain relievers may be a better choice for residents with chronic wounds, according to new research.
Lawmakers want pay that is risk-adjusted
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2014
Calculations for Medicare readmissions penalties should be risk-adjusted so that providers do not lose money for serving the sickest, poorest seniors, a group of Congressional lawmakers said in a letter...
QAPI on minds of leadership
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Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2014
A critical decision in a Quality Assurance Performance Improvement plan is not what, but whom, to include, a former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official said at the annual NADONA conference.
The sick versus the ‘not sick’ in long-term care
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 27, 2014
Of the many intriguing philosophies offered up at the Long Term Post Acute Care Health IT Summit, one that stuck with me was from Andrey Ostrovsky, M.D., the founder of Care at Hand. (He’s also a...
Technology is helping prevent readmissions, but integration across the care continuum remains a pressing...
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 25, 2014
As data sets increase for post-acute care, so will the need for standardization and the push for skilled nursing facilities to be connected with other health entities, experts said at a health information...
Long-term care tech summit produces calls for better, silo-busting assessment tools
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 24, 2014
More progress is needed toward standardizing beneficiary assessments across care settings, an analyst with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told a gathering of long-term care health information...
Antisocial behavior best predictor of abuse among residents with criminal history, analysis says
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Elizabeth Newman
Jun 23, 2014
Many residents with criminal histories can smoothly transition to life in a nursing home, but a small subset of those with previous antisocial behavior can pose a danger, a new analysis says.