Healthcare cybersecurity: Finding the best administrative defenses
By
John DiMaggio
Feb 17, 2017
Administrative defenses are a key component of cybersecurity because they cover the gap that technical defenses cannot protect.
Did a cholera outbreak inspire ICD-1?
By
Jonathan Elion, MD, FACC
Dec 09, 2015
John Snow was clearly a man ahead of his times.
Finally, some coverage that puts ‘nursing home’ and ‘great’ in the same headline
By
John O'Connor
Sep 08, 2014
By any standard, much of what’s being reported about nursing homes these days could hardly be considered good news. I could point out many examples, but the point is clear: There’s a lot of...
The need to drill down into seniors housing data
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 17, 2013
About a year from now, the story coming out of the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industry conference will be around how operators are clutching their pearls about the decline...
When caregivers aren’t human
By
Mary Gustafson
Mar 22, 2012
If you can speak authoritatively about long-term care robots in social conversation, people tend to snap to attention. I can.
A shot (and a beer?)
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 07, 2011
If you want to work here, you will get vaccinated. Period.
A tale of titanic proportions
By
Liza Berger
Oct 23, 2008
We write a lot of stories here at McKnight’s. Now and again it’s worth reflecting on which stories are most popular, and why. This week the eye grabber was about a survivor of the Titanic ship who...
The pain of being human
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 13, 2022
With COVID-19 variants still punching long-term care staff in the face every day, it’s understandable for us to sometimes lose the ability to get our arms around the sheer scope of collective sadness...
One incontestable pandemic truth
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 02, 2021
Though I strongly support the concept of gratefulness, I’m not much for delivering public speeches about it, even to close friends or family around the Thanksgiving table. Truth be told, I generally...
Wyden is right on emergency prep regs
By
Elizabeth Newman
Nov 26, 2018
For years, the industry has been saying “we are over-regulated.” The subtext is really, “trust us. We know what we’re doing.”