Approved sensor can reveal whether medicine is taken
By
John O'Connor
Sep 01, 2012
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has given marketing approval to an ingestible pill that monitors medication adherence. Proteus Digital Health Inc. makes the Ingestion Event Marker (IEM), which was...
CMS supports collection of sex orientation, gender data
By
Amy Novotney
Apr 04, 2016
Researchers believe collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data will improve care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents.
Researchers say: IT systems are an ‘unfulfilled promise’
By
John Andrews
Mar 02, 2013
The healthcare industry’s deployment of information technology systems has fallen short of the expectations projected by the RAND Corporation in 2005.
ITUpdate
Apr 01, 2014
» HIMSS Analytics alleged that too many providers rely on outdated and inefficient practices to back up and archive resident-related information. The organization surveyed 150 senior IT professionals...
Grants to help LTC operators coordinate care with hospitals
By
John O'Connor
Jul 01, 2013
Four Maryland long-term care facilities stand to benefit from new technology grants that target medical information.
ITUpdate for October 2014
Oct 01, 2014
» The personal information of roughly 4.5 million patients was compromised during a series of cyber-attacks against hospital group Community Health Systems, the organization reported Aug. 18. The attacks...
Nonprofits continue to hike digital efforts, survey finds
By
John O'Connor
Jan 01, 2014
The nation’s largest not-for-profit long-term care providers have implemented electronic health records, but there is still much room for growth when it comes to the sharing of digital data, according...
Senate IT legislation targets red tape and interoperability
By
Amy Novotney
Mar 04, 2016
Interoperability improvements for electronic health records and reducing documentation burdens are among the proposals of a draft bill released in January by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...
Price wants more tech and less government meddling
By
Amy Novotney
Jun 05, 2017
Physicians need to be more patient-facing, not computer-facing, according to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, M.D.
Meager resource allocation can sink tech efforts: CAST
By
John O'Connor
Feb 01, 2012
High expenses and poor internal collaboration often undermine provider efforts to implement new technology initiatives, according to a report from LeadingAge’s Center for Aging Services Technologies.