How can we prepare for the future of healthcare technology?
By
Pat Mulloy
Mar 31, 2022
Over the last few years in senior living, we have seen many anticipated technological changes come to sudden fruition. Businesses that promised more digital care options for years found they could no longer...
Introducing the new face of your economic buyer
By
Katherine Wells
Feb 24, 2022
Thirty-nine million economic buyers, otherwise known as adult children, are ignored in the current senior care system.
Meeting demand with treat-in-place strategies
By
Eric Grunden
Jan 25, 2022
Care delivery models must change. Telehealth, remote care collaboration and interoperability support treat-in-place strategies.
Technology and innovation power wound care’s ongoing evolution
By
Cathy Thomas Hess
Dec 16, 2021
Like all nurses specializing in wound care, I’ve seen many changes in our profession over the years. Perhaps the most meaningful are the influences that breakthrough technology and products have had...
Smartphone technology helps seniors with mild dementia complete daily tasks, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Nov 18, 2021
Despite the pervasive notion that older adults dislike technology, participants enjoyed learning to use smartphone memory apps and were able to improve their daily prospective memory performance over four...
Telehealth reduces stress, increases access to care for nursing home residents: study
By
Amy Novotney
Nov 05, 2021
The use of telehealth visits to see patients not only reduced stress for nursing home residents, but also increased their access to convenient care, according to a study led by researchers at the University...
On Oct. 20, Tech stars will shine
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 11, 2021
The Oct. 20 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards and Summit will celebrate outstanding innovation by skilled nursing, senior living and home care operators — and provide insights on how to...
Telehealth is a linchpin to SNF success
By
Steven Littlehale
Sep 17, 2021
Telehealth Awareness Week (September 19–25) is a time to highlight and reinforce the critical role of telehealth. Telehealth is the use of telecommunications technology to deliver care and health...
Providers push Congress as negotiations intensify: Nursing homes need traditional infrastructure help
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jul 22, 2021
Federal lawmakers negotiating a massive infrastructure deal should allocate support for capital improvements in the nation’s nursing homes, the American Health Care Association and National Association...
The finalists for the 2021 McKnight’s Tech Awards have arrived
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 02, 2021
A panel of expert judges has determined the short list of finalists for the 2021 McKnight’s Excellent in Technology Awards competition.