Navigating complex compliance laws can be time consuming and it is often confusing.
Medication adherence strategies for lowering hospital readmission rates
By
Bill Shields
Nov 15, 2012
Nearly one in five Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month of discharge, costing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) an extra $17.5 billion in 2010. Multi-medication packaging...
Is your facility at risk?
By
Shridhara Alva Karinka, Ph.D.
Jun 16, 2014
Glucose test strips in vials do pose a risk of contamination within healthcare facilities. Why assume this risk when it is unnecessary and potentially dangerous? As with all products used in a patient’s...
CDI can transform healthcare
By
Jon Elion, M.D.
May 01, 2015
Rather than simply recreating what we already do today with notes, simple databases and spreadsheets, new technologies allow for totally new workflows, efficiencies, integration, reporting and analysis....
The illuminated landscape: Unlocking the healing power of photography
By
Daniel Ambrosi
Jun 04, 2014
For centuries, designers, artists, architects and city planners understood that pastoral landscape scenes could elicit rapid and significant recovery from stress. In modern times, this belief has been...
Strategies for improving medication management in LTC, Part 2
By
Dorris Yee
Sep 07, 2016
In my last blog, we identified room for improvement in reducing the number of preventable adverse drug events in the LTC setting
The importance of LTC benchmarking
By
Raul Valdes-Perez, Ph.D., and Keith T. Kanel, M.D.
May 06, 2016
An example of a long-term care organization embracing the new marriage of data benchmarking and performance improvement was Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative’s partnership with the Vincentian...
Advanced wound product promotes healing
By
Janice M. Smiell, M.D.
Dec 17, 2014
A new solution may be an option for management of non-infected partial- and full-thickness wounds, including chronic and acute wounds such as diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, venous ulcers, chronic vascular...
From compliance personnel to compliance tech
By
Jesse Wood
Dec 23, 2016
Business process management systems are playing a shining new role in healthcare situations, especially for compliance officers and personnel.
Meeting the growing technology requirements of today’s senior living facilities
By
Robert Knox
Nov 25, 2013
Sprawling senior living campuses peppered with multiple storied brick buildings typically have a difficult time maintaining a consistent cell signal from multiple carriers and may not have the bandwidth...