Senate calls for greater scrutiny of quality organizations
By
Haymarket Media
Dec 13, 2005
The Senate Finance Committee is calling for an expanded probe of Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), which Medicare pays about $300 million a year to investigate complaints and improve nursing home...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, April 14
By
Alicia Lasek
Apr 14, 2021
NIH updates monoclonal antibody COVID treatment protocols … Surveyed community pharmacists say vaccine supply is bigger problem than patient reluctance … B.1.1.7 variant more transmissible but does...
Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Jan. 18
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 18, 2023
Medicaid HCBS study shows ‘we still know very little’ about COVID in senior living … FDA video explains new category of OTC hearing aids … NIH: Probiotic slashes S. aureus colonization in mid-stage...
Clinical briefs for Friday, July 1
By
Alicia Lasek (f3)
Jul 01, 2022
Extended! McKnight’s Tech Awards nominations now due by July 7 … Omnicare appoints new president to lead long-term care business … U.S. Supreme Court nixes religious challenge brought by healthcare...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, June 13
By
Alicia Lasek
Jun 13, 2023
Aging services organizations back campaign to enable more care by advanced nurses … U.S. COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations fall as XBB subvariant shifts … Billions could be saved long term if Medicare...
ASCP gathers for spring conference
May 18, 2012
The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) will hold its spring conference and exposition at the Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, CA from May 20-23. The keynote speaker will be Dan Benamoz, R. Ph.,...
Debt-management company added to IT incubator
Sep 20, 2016
IC System has joined athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ program.
Counties are only liable for poor nursing home care caused by municipal policies, judge rules
By
McKnight's Staff
Mar 27, 2013
Even if county nursing home workers provide poor care, the county is not liable unless the employees are executing an official policy, a federal judge in Pennsylvania recently ruled, providing a victory...
Clinical briefs for Thursday, Sept. 23
By
Alicia Lasek
Sep 23, 2021
CDC advisers predict decline in coronavirus cases and deaths this fall … Antidiabetic treatment requires improvements to lower hypoglycemia risk in elders … Study pinpoints unmet clinical care needs...
Researchers identify protein that could cut spread of shingles
By
Haymarket Media
Oct 23, 2006
A single human protein appears to help spread of varicella-zoster virus, the cause of both shingles and chickenpox, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.