The 2020 winners of the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards, sponsored by Stanley Healthcare, have been posted online at www.mcknights.com.
January IT Update
Jan 05, 2020
» The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new app aimed at helping healthcare providers treat tough infectious diseases. CURE ID is an internet-based repository that allows providers to report...
CMS may move to reduce ‘burdensome’ requirements for nursing homes next year
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Danielle Brown
Dec 19, 2019
A proposed rule to reduce “burdensome” requirements for providers could be finalized next year, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
FDA accelerates timetable for full approval of Pfizer vaccine
By
Danielle Brown
Aug 05, 2021
It may soon be “go” time for providers that have thus far held off on mandating COVID-19 vaccines for staff members, basing their decisions on the fact vaccines have been approved by the Food and...
More state officials under fire: Delayed classification of nearly 1,000 nursing home COVID-19 deaths
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Danielle Brown
Mar 24, 2021
Another governor is on the ropes about possibly withholding nursing home COVID-19 death data to help the state’s overall fatality numbers.
Hot idea: Psychologists’ plea to neighbors results in truckloads of donations for nursing home residents
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Danielle Brown
Jan 13, 2021
After noticing a nursing home resident shivering cold and crying during a session, California-based licensed psychologist Tracey Burrell, Ph.D., issued a call-to-action to nearby neighbors for blankets...
Provider COVID-19 relief funds now to be based on 2018 patient revenue
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Danielle Brown
Jun 03, 2020
The Department of Health and Human Services will now be basing its entire distribution of $50 billion in COVID-19 relief funding on providers’ 2018 net patient revenues.
Providers worry there won’t be enough supplies to test nursing home workers twice a week
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Danielle Brown
May 18, 2020
New York providers are calling on state officials to provide “full assistance” following a new mandate to test workers twice a week — something they say is nearly “impossible” to comply without...
Nursing homes face financial collapse without state aid, providers say
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Danielle Brown
Apr 17, 2020
Leaders of Connecticut’s nursing home associations are calling on state leaders to step in to save providers from what they warn would be financial collapse amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Administration looks to boost value-based, coordinated care
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 09, 2019
The Trump administration is looking to ease compliance burdens that limit coordinated and value-based care for healthcare providers by modernizing the Stark Law and anti-kickback statute.