TODAY’S THE DAY: McKnight’s Fall Online Expo is back
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Sep 22, 2016
The fourth annual McKnight’s Fall Online Expo takes place today, with educational sessions kicking off at 11 a.m. ET.
CMS sets deadline of 2013 for installation of nursing home sprinkler systems
Aug 14, 2008
Long-term care facilities have exactly five years to fully equip their facilities with automatic sprinkler systems, according to a final rule published Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Favorable impression
Aug 20, 2008
The Exergen TemporalScanner, an infrared thermometer that reads body temperature in just two seconds, recently ranked well in a New Jersey study. Fully 86% of the nurses participating in the study found...
Swisslog, Parata Systems announce partnership
Mar 04, 2014
Swisslog, which offers hospital automation in material handling and medication management, and Parata Systems, a pharmacy company, have announced a partnership that will create a fully integrated outpatient...
Webcast to focus on standards in long-term care pharmacy
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Haymarket Media
Sep 19, 2007
You’ve heard the buzzwords: “e-prescribing,” “standards” and the “medication administration record.” But what do they mean?
AAHSA show coming to Philadelphia
Oct 03, 2008
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging will kick off its annual Convention and Expo on Sunday (Oct. 12) in Philadelphia. More than 7,000 providers, researchers, educators and others...
Medicaid expansion a boon for early adopters: Report
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John Hall
Apr 09, 2015
A new report produced for the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concludes that Medicaid expansion provides a “win-win” for participating states and the government.
More docs plan to own iPhones: survey
May 31, 2011
Fully 61% of physicians intend to own an iPhone by the end of the year, according to an Aptilon Corporation survey. This is up from 39% at the beginning of the year. Overall, 84% of physicians will be...
Sunrise reports smaller loss for first quarter of 2010
May 05, 2010
Sunrise Senior Living Inc. disclosed on Monday that it lost $16 million in the first quarter of 2010. That compares to a wider loss of $18 million in the first quarter of last year.
Googling information a popular choice for docs
Oct 12, 2011
Doctors prefer Google over other search engines by a 2-to-1 ratio, according to a recent Kantar Media survey. Fully 87% of physicians use Google, compared to 43% for both WebMD and PubMed, the survey showed.